Student-facing Applications

Take the student experience with you wherever you go

Why Reengineer Education With Mobility?

Pyxis Mobile delivers innovative wireless applications to the classroom. Pyxis Mobile's Application Studio is the right choice to create custom classroom applications for any educational need.

Why Mobility?

Mobile applications can help educators improve efficiency of their interactive projects, manage teacher and student tasks while on the go, help students to learn by giving them access to monitor their results at all times, and customize educational experiences:

  • Mobile applications improve productivity by making it possible to act on data at all times
  • Mobile applications lead to better time management, with real-time information giving educators dynamic reports on their projects and their students' progress
  • Mobile applications integrate with any back-end data or support system, giving access to such tools as a knowledgebase, data libraries, and so on
  • Mobile applications let students see instant response in interactive projects that the general public has come to expect due to the immediate availability of information on a smartphone

Pyxis Mobile's Upper Class

Mobile Student Information Application, for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and iPhone

The application connects to a university’s existing data systems and provides the following functionality (broken out by user type):

For the Students:

  • Alerting: Class changes/cancellations, Emergency situations (with the ability to track receipt of message)
  • GPS: Track location of students in emergency, Click to map for class locations
  • Schedule: Access class schedule and detailed class information, Sports schedules/News/Events
  • Co-Op Work: Log/Edit work hours, Track work hours
  • Campus Spending Card: Add money to card, Monitor balance
  • Registration: Register for classes, Track GPA, Loan Balance, Tuition
  • Security: Request escort for campus security, Real-time edit of request
  • Dining Hall: View what’s on the menu at each location
  • Announcements: Keep up with campus announcements – good for commuters and students who might not regularly log in to campus systems
  • Student ID info: Quick access to this important, hard to remember information
  • Contact directory: Access University departments & staff

For Faculty:

  • Updates on assignments
  • Change of class schedule
  • Reminders using alerts

For Alumni:

  • Track campus news & events
  • Buy/reserve tickets for sports/concerts etc.
  • Respond to solicitations

For Parents:

  • Monitor student class schedules, grades etc
  • Campus events/news
  • Track campus spending card balance & add to it

Mobile application screenshots

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Dashboard
Dashboard
Assignmentst
Assignments
Transcript
Transcript
Map
Map
Headlines
Headlines
Stock List
Stock List
Market Quotes
Market Quotes
Custom Watchlists
Custom Watchlists

Case Study

Boston University MS in Investment Management
Professor Scott Stewart joined Boston University in 2001 after a 16-year fund management career, including founding and leading a $45 billion global investment team at a major investment firm. Scott teaches two MS in Investment Management (MSIM) "portfolio management" courses. His MSIM mobile application extends critical data to the students allowing them to collaborate and stay on top of real-time critical data and news. (see screen shots for more detail)

Videos

See our Higher Education mobile applications featured in the following videos:

Why Pyxis Mobile?

Pyxis Mobile's applications have been proven at 28 of the top 50 global asset managers and 6 of the top 15 "Fortune 500", making it the most secure, scalable solution on the market today. We have 90% customer retention and 96% of our customers say we meet or exceed their expectations. If you want the right solution for your mobile workforce, the choice is obvious.