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Video: How To Build a Student Centric App

Learn how you can engage your students to contribute to building an app that truly serves them – from the design phase and throughout its lifetime with recommendations for new content and functionality.

Video: How To Build a Sticky App

Learn how to build an app that attracts students and encourages them not only to download the app but come back to it multiple times a day.

5 Practical Tips to Build a Sticky Student App (and Keeping It Gooey)

Can you really build a sticky app? We think you can. How do we know this? From our many years of experience helping higher education organizations like yours build campus apps their digital native students love and use daily.  So, how do you build a sticky app? Tip 1: Design With Your Digital Native Students […]

What it Takes to Build a Campus Mobile App Students Will Actually Use

A campus mobile app succeeds when it feels essential to student life, not like one more system students are expected to check. Modo customers share how their efforts to develop a virtual campus portal increase student focus and success. For colleges, having a powerful, integrated campus mobile app is no longer a “nice to have” […]

Video: Ceremony Replay: 2022 Appademy Awards

As more digital natives enter college, higher ed institutions must make their campus apps more user-friendly, engaging, and useful to meet the needs and expectations of these students. For our 5th annual Appademy Awards, we recognized the best mobile apps and digital experiences of 2022 across nine categories, including Best Health & Wellness, Best Commencement, Best […]

What’s the benefit of a low-code platform? In a word, agility.

Takeaway: The benefit of low-code is still agility, but in 2026 that agility also means faster iteration, better governance, and a more practical path to AI-enabled experiences. As you explore the options for creating and deploying an app to simplify hybrid work or drive student success on campus you’ll come across a lot of discussion […]

Campus App Development: Why Student Participation is Key to App Success

Takeaway: The most effective campus apps are shaped by student feedback, because student participation helps institutions build experiences that feel more useful, relevant, and engaging from the start. In the 12 years since we started Modo and began working with higher education institutions, we’ve noticed a growing trend—greater student involvement in all phases of campus […]