Since 1958 California State University, Northridge (CSUN) has been committed to enabling human potential through the transformative power of higher education. Serving 38,500 students on a 353-acre campus, the University has been a Modo customer for over a decade, launching its Modo-powered CSUN mobile app in 2012.

In October 2021, the CSUN IT team learned that a required system-wide upgrade planned for the following fall would render their current Student Information and Human Resources systems incompatible with the campus desktop portal. As a result, they would need to plan, design, build, and launch a new, modern portal that students would use in just eight months.

“If we had been on our own timeline, we would have allocated two years to this project,” said CSUN IT Director of Enterprise Application Development Kyle Shaver. “We knew we wouldn’t be able to launch with every feature, so prioritization was critical.”