All of your campus systems, united as one.
Higher education doesn’t lack technology, it lacks connection. Make app sprawl and forgotten passwords vanish. Usher in an era of digital connectivity that your campus will love with the top Campus Experience Platform (CXP) for cutting-edge institutions.
What Is a Campus Experience Platform?
Modo Campus is a campus experience platform (CXP): a digital front door that brings fragmented education systems, such as SIS, LMS, and campus services, into one intelligent hub. Instead of juggling separate apps and portals, students, staff, and alumni can access everything from schedules to campus events in one place.
Unlike traditional portals or standalone apps, Modo Campus CXP helps users take action, orchestrate workflows, and get things done faster.
It also includes Modo My Agent™, an AI assistant built specifically for higher education. Tailored to your campus and users, it helps with everything from enrollment deadlines and parking to HR questions anytime.
The Problem Modo Solves
Higher education has invested heavily in technology. The opportunity now is to make the technology work together in a way that feels simple, connected, and actionable for the people using it.
Modo’s campus experience platform is the cure for:
- Fragmented and redundant systems: SIS, LMS, portals, departmental tools, email, and standalone apps often operate in silos, and overlap more than they should. When everything is everywhere, nothing works seamlessly, and the result is a disjointed experience with unnecessary cost at a time when every dollar counts
- High-stakes friction: Registration. Financial aid. Deadlines. Support services. These moments matter. When students don’t know where to go, they drop off, miss deadlines, and lose momentum.
- IT overhead: Behind every fragmented experience is an overburdened IT team holding it together. Maintaining multiple portals, point solutions, and integrations creates ongoing pressure and costs.
Modo brings it all together in one connected experience, reducing friction for students, easing the burden on IT, and turning disconnected systems into a campus that feels clear, supportive, and easy to navigate.
How Modo Campus Works
Modo’s campus experience platform unites disconnected databases, portals, apps, and intranets into a single, user-friendly platform, neatly unifying campus systems. With actionable integrations, it’s designed to help people complete tasks (not just view information).
Instead of needing to remember different sites, apps, pages, and logins, users can simply open their CXP (on both mobile and desktop) for all of their needs.
- New Student Orientation
- Before Modo: A mix of emails, PDFs, portals, and checklists spread across systems. Students miss steps and disengage before they even start.
- With Modo: A single, role-based experience guides each student through orientation, from registering for sessions to submitting documents.
- First Day of Classes
- Before Modo: Students scramble across LMS, email, campus maps, and multiple apps just to figure out where to go and what to do.
- With Modo: Everything needed for day one is at the tips of their fingers, class schedules, navigation, real-time updates, and direct links to LMS assignments.
This isn’t a better interface. It’s a fundamentally different digital architecture. With role-based personalization, students, faculty, staff, and others see what’s relevant to them, no generic dashboards.
Modo My Agent
Modo My Agent™ is an exclusive agentic AI built to drive action. It doesn’t just answer questions. It moves work forward.
Most AI in higher education stops at information retrieval. Modo My Agent™ closes that gap. It’s embedded directly into the Modo Campus experience layer, accessing the systems that power campus workflows.
This means it can:
- Guide students, staff, and visitors through multi-step processes.
- Surface the right next action.
- Execute tasks within connected systems.
Modo My Agent™ is securely governed for regulated campus environments, working with institutional policies and data controls.
Where Other Campus Experience Platforms Fall Short
At Modo, we firmly believe “campus experience platform” should be more than just a buzzword.
As more vendors claim to provide this service, here’s where some drop the ball:
- Portal-first vs. experience-first: Portal-first platforms aggregate links and content, while Modo is mobile-first, workflow-driven, and built to move users forward.
- Read-only vs. deep action: If users still have to switch systems to complete a task, the integration falls short, whereas Modo enables action where the work happens.
- Fragmented vs. orchestrated: Placing systems in one place doesn’t make them work together, but Modo orchestrates systems, data, and workflows into a single experience.
- Chatbot vs. agentic AI: Many platforms offer AI as a chatbot layer, while Modo My Agent is embedded in workflows, connected to systems, and designed to trigger action, and complete tasks.
- Point solutions vs. enterprise-ready: Instead of adding another disconnected tool, Modo provides an enterprise-ready platform built to unify complex system environments.
Taken together, these differences show what matters most: not just bringing systems into one place, but creating a connected, action-oriented experience that actually works for your campus.
Built for Every Campus Persona
Modo Campus doesn’t just stop at students (like other solutions).
It delivers tailored experiences for every campus persona:
- Students: Navigate academics, finances, support services, and daily campus life with clear next steps.
- Faculty: Access teaching tools, class information, and campus updates without switching systems.
- Staff: Manage workflows, communications, and operational tasks in one place.
- Families: Stay informed and connected with relevant updates and resources.
- Alumni: Engage with events, giving, and lifelong connections.
- Visitors: Find directions, schedules, and key information without friction.
Integration Depth
Most platforms only aggregate data, pull it in, display it cleanly, and call it integration. Modo takes a different approach, making data not only clear but usable.
- A student doesn’t just see their balance; they can take action on it.
- Registration isn’t a set of instructions; it’s a guided, executable workflow.
- Support isn’t a list of links; it’s a connected path to resolution.
Modo connects to the systems that actually run campus life and integrates them.
That includes:
- SIS (Student Information Systems): Academic records, registration, and financial data.
- LMS (Learning Management Systems): Courses, assignments, learning content.
- Dining and campus services: Meal plans, balances, transactions.
- Housing systems: Assignments, maintenance requests, communications.
- Athletics and events: Schedules, tickets, engagement.
Modo connects campus systems like SIS, LMS, dining, housing, and athletics, integrating academic records, courses, meal plans, maintenance, and event schedules.
Case Study: UTA
| UT Arlington unified its campus app and desktop experience with MyUTA, achieving 24% increase in first-year retention, 2% increase in undergraduate retention, and 90% adoption. By centralizing systems and personalizing engagement, the university transformed its digital experience into a measurable driver of student success. |
Since the MyUTA relaunch, the university has seen impressive results:
- 100% of students adopted the platform in Spring 2025.
- 2% increase in undergraduate retention for app users.
- 1.3 million student logins in a single term.
- 75% fewer screens, streamlining the user experience.
- 24.5% increase in first-year student retention.
- Student feedback praised the app as a “one-stop shop” and highlighted features like GPA visibility, parking info, and access to classification.
“By implementing a unified app and desktop portal with Modo, we’ve created a connected, intuitive experience for our students. Simplifying access to critical resources is having a measurable impact, with strong improvements in first-year persistence and positive gains across our undergraduate population.”
—Liz Richter, Senior Director of Operations and Innovations, The University of Texas at Arlington
See Modo Campus in Action
A campus experience platform should do more than organize information; it should move people forward.
Modo Campus unifies your systems into a single, intelligent experience layer that enables students and staff to take action. The result is less friction, higher adoption, and measurable impact on the moments that matter most.
Don’t take our word for it. See how institutions like Penn State, UNC Chapel Hill, UT Austin, and Utah Tech centralized their digital ecosystems.
FAQs
What Is a Campus Experience Platform?
A campus experience platform (CXP) is a unified digital layer that connects systems like SIS, LMS, and campus services into a single, personalized experience across mobile and desktop.
How Is a Mobile-First Campus Experience Platform Different From a Portal-First Solution?
Portal-first tools bring systems into one place. Mobile-first platforms make them work together everywhere. Native mobile can’t be bolted on; it has to function like the apps users use every day.
When mobile is treated as an extension of a portal, the experience often feels like a website on a phone. A true campus experience platform delivers a seamless, action-oriented experience across both mobile and desktop.
Why Do Universities Need a Campus Experience Platform?
Universities need a campus experience platform to reduce fragmentation, improve engagement, and help students and staff complete tasks more efficiently across systems.
What Does a Campus Experience Platform Do?
A campus experience platform:
- Connects institutional systems
- Personalizes experiences by role
- Enables real-time actions
- Works across mobile and desktop
A campus experience platform should do more than organize information. It should make the campus easier to use. By connecting institutional systems, personalizing the experience by role, enabling real-time action, and working across both mobile and desktop, it helps students, staff, and faculty move from searching to doing. That is what turns a surface-level portal into a unified experience people actually rely on every day.
How Does AI Improve a Campus Experience Platform?
AI enhances a campus experience platform by guiding users, surfacing relevant information, and enabling task completion through natural language interactions.