resource bookings
Extensively reduce administration activities
Centralise all your booking information
Track where every piece of media equipment is at any time
Offer a check out and check in process that takes seconds
Universities and colleges take on the important responsibility to provide students with the necessary equipment they need to fulfill their courses. We have worked with our academic customers to create a solution that makes the management of these resources easy!
Empowering students with a self-service facility, whilst at the same time automating processes, connect2 is perfect for departments who loan out equipment to students on a regular basis. Whether you look after cameras, projectors, or any other equipment, students can make their own bookings without the need for your staff to get involved.
Here are the benefits in using connect2 for your resources…
| features | benefits |
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| rules and permissions | |
- Ability to apply rules and permissions to each of your resources
- Limitations can be applied to resource bookings, e.g. how far in advance a booking can be made or how many resources can be borrowed at one time
| - Maintain control over use of your resources
- Ensure that only authorised users can make bookings for specific resources
- Ensure that your students have fair access to your resources
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| searching facility | |
- Resources can be easily searched for by students and staff using search fields such as location or type
| - Users can find exactly what they are looking for quickly and easily
- Enhances the booking process
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| resource availability | |
- Bookings can be cancelled automatically if a student misses their booking within a specified time. The resource can then made available again for another booking
- Resources can be easily removed from a booking if the resource becomes unavailable.
| - Specified cancellation periods prevents confrontation between staff and students
- Automated processes removes the need for staff to become involved in administering cancellations
- Maximises the availability of your resources
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| messaging | |
- Messages can be automated to send reminders to students when their deadline for returning a resource is nearing
- Automated messaging can also be used to remind students when their booking is approaching
| - Reduces late returns and ‘no shows’
- Removes the need for staff to chase up students
- Reduces the administration process of writing and sending out messages on an individual basis
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| use with the checkout module | |
| - Speeds up the collection and returns process
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| use with the charging module | |
| - automate payments for bookings
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