SharePoint offers a whole host of opportunities for the Higher Education sector. Within colleges and universities, SharePoint is often used to create:

• A platform for an external website
• Staff Portals
• Student Portals
• Team Collaboration
• Workflow & Process Improvement
• Business Intelligence Data

Novotronix have worked on a range of projects to provide students and staff with better collaboration tools and improved access to information. Using our extensive SharePoint development experience, we can design solutions and embed applications such as a CV creation tool, giving colleges and universities relevant, content-rich information.

Student and Staff Portals: Creating a single sign-on student or staff portal enables students and staff to access information and tools from one single site.

Team Collaboration: By replacing networked shared drives, students and staff can collaborate on documents and share information much more effectively. Access permissions can be set to restrict the circulation of sensitive information.

Workflow & Process Improvement: Using SharePoint, we can create simple workflows for your organisation such as course booking forms. For more sophisticated workflow projects, we use Infopath that enables us to re-design and automate key processes such as improving the course planning process or creating specific applications for an individual department. As a result, workflow improves throughout the organisation, saving time and costs.

Business Intelligence Data: SharePoint enables you to monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) more easily. We can build solutions to enable you to combine data from different sources so that you can interpret it in real-time with user-friendly dashboards.

For more information on the benefits of using Sharepoint in Higher Education, download this report published by Northumbria University.