Members of SDSU administration and Associated Students have started the planning process for the creation of a campus app.
The planning process is currently in an early stage of discussion.
“We are trying to be very strategic because there are already a lot of apps out there,” Associated Students President Jamie Miller said. “We want to make sure we aren’t making something that will be there for a week and then students won’t use.”
The San Diego State Police Department released its mobile app, Aztec Shield, last year.
Aztec Shield offers “friend watch,” which allows family and friends to track a student’s location while walking around campus, provides safety escorts for students walking around campus, and direct text, photo and video messaging for crime tips.
“We don’t feel competition with a new mobile campus app,” SDSUPD Cpl. Mark Peterson said, “Student safety is our top priority.”
A.S. President-elect Chimezie Ebiriekwe said he anticipates the app will include all campus resources and centralize important information, such as current events at San Diego State.
Mobile campus apps are popular at many colleges across the nation, and typically include maps, events, dining information, news and access to a campus directory.
The mobile campus app for California State University Fullerton is called iFullerton.
The app includes a campus catalog, directory, and academic calendar. It features a news feed, parking availability in particular parking structures and job postings for students.
At SDSU, Miller said students need some sort of calendar, campus news and safety alerts.
English junior Isabelle Cruz said she already gets emails with events and police phone numbers, but it’s “from different sources and all over the place.”
“Having it all in one place would be convenient,” she said.
Marketing junior Jenelle Aleong and transfer student from Cal Poly Pomona, said a map would have been helpful in an app as an incoming junior.
“It would be cool if they had an interactive map,” Aleong said. “Since I’m new this year, I would always get lost finding my classes.”
Computer science professor Carl Eckberg said that the costs of creating a mobile campus app would be low.
“Computer science students would be like a free workforce,” he said.
A release date for the app has not yet been decided, Miller said.
Members of SDSU administration and Associated Students have started the planning process for the creation of a campus app.
The planning process is currently in an early stage of discussion.
“We are trying to be very strategic because there are already a lot of apps out there,” Associated Students President Jamie Miller said. “We want to make sure we aren’t making something that will be there for a week and then students won’t use.”
The San Diego State Police Department released its mobile app, Aztec Shield, last year.
Aztec Shield offers “friend watch,” which allows family and friends to track a student’s location while walking around campus, provides safety escorts for students walking around campus, and direct text, photo and video messaging for crime tips.
“We don’t feel competition with a new mobile campus app,” SDSUPD Cpl. Mark Peterson said, “Student safety is our top priority.”
A.S. President-elect Chimezie Ebiriekwe said he anticipates the app will include all campus resources and centralize important information, such as current events at San Diego State.
Mobile campus apps are popular at many colleges across the nation, and typically include maps, events, dining information, news and access to a campus directory.
The mobile campus app for California State University Fullerton is called iFullerton.
The app includes a campus catalog, directory, and academic calendar. It features a news feed, parking availability in particular parking structures and job postings for students.
At SDSU, Miller said students need some sort of calendar, campus news and safety alerts.
English junior Isabelle Cruz said she already gets emails with events and police phone numbers, but it’s “from different sources and all over the place.”
“Having it all in one place would be convenient,” she said.
Marketing junior Jenelle Aleong and transfer student from Cal Poly Pomona, said a map would have been helpful in an app as an incoming junior.
“It would be cool if they had an interactive map,” Aleong said. “Since I’m new this year, I would always get lost finding my classes.”
Computer science professor Carl Eckberg said that the costs of creating a mobile campus app would be low.
“Computer science students would be like a free workforce,” he said.
A release date for the app has not yet been decided, Miller said.
