Timeline and Work Plan
The CSUSM Mobile App launched in the summer of 2016.
Priorities for the CSUSM Mobile App are to:
- Offer service and transactional functions that will make students’ lives easier.
- Provide opportunities to increase engagement of students with campus events, activities and leadership development.
- Build student awareness and excitement about the mobile app.
Newest App Features
Fall 2023
- Promoting a more accessible campus: Markstein chair lift status added
Potential Future Features
These are purposed features and do not have a specific end date at this time.
- Additional campus information
- More robust app content
- Improved design
- Gamification of overall app
- Campus Marketplace feature
- Community space with MS Teams integration
- Keyboard stickers
- In-app hosted Canvas integration
- In-app Peoplesoft integration
App Timeline Archive
- May 2016
Soft-launch of mobile app to new students with basic functions and Orientation module.
- Orientation section: map, schedules, resources, social and messages.
- Connect section: news, social media, campus directory, emergency info and video
- Engage section: campus-wide events and student life
- Learn section: find a lab, library and academic calendar features
- Athletics section: games schedules, top stories and live game streaming.
- Eat section: dining services and hours
- August 2016
Officially launch mobile app to campus community with a full marketing campaign.
- Create Welcome section: Move-In information and Weeks of Welcome engagement
- Combine Connect and Engage sections to consolidate news and event information
- Create Move section: campus maps, parking and commuter services resources
- Add Starbucks wait line video stream to Eat section
- Update the look and feel of module icons
- December 2016
Update to enhance functionality and service features for students’ unique information.
- Will offer first levelofPeopleSoft integrations for students to include:
- View your grades
- View spring 2017 classes
- View your class schedule
- View exam schedule
- Will offer first levelofPeopleSoft integrations for students to include:
- Spring 2017
Significant transactional functionality for student services, as well as custom modules to support our large spring events
- Orientation module, including personas for students and families
- Fuller integrationwithPeopleSoft to include the following transactions:
- Register for classes
- Pay for classes
- Add/drop courses
- Use your degree planner
- Access To Dos
- View holds
- Commencement module: schedules, guest information, maps, social
- Summer/Fall 2017
- Cougar Courses module
- Additional functionalitytomyCSUSM, including:
- Edit profile information
- My Finances
- View Financial Aid
- Accept Awards
- Enroll in Payment Plan
- Account Inquiry
- Campus Coffee wait line
- Fall 2018/Spring 2019
- Wellness module added
- Mental & Physical Health
- Set up medical appointments
- Campus provided mental health opportunities
- Campus Rec fitness class schedules
- Campus Safety
- Request a campus escort
- Report lost items
- Campus emergency contacts
- Clery report
- Mental & Physical Health
- Bus Schedule/Tracker added
- Tracks buses real-time
- Wellness module added
- Summer/Fall 2019
- *New* Experiences Module
- Full campus parking counters
- Wellness Module expanded
- Campus Discounts expanded
- Condensed Study/Labs with Library
- Improved events feed color contrast
- Custom Orientation Persona
- Summer 2020
Content changes made based on the move to a mostly online environment due to Covid-19.
- Wellness Module Improvements:
- Online Workout classes added
- Covid-19 general information
- *New* Coming to Campus Module
- Parking moved under
- Athletics moved under
- Dining moved under
- Map moved under
- *New* Technology Resources Module
- *New* Upload ID photo
- Wellness Module Improvements:
- Fall 2020
For Fall 2020, the Campus App is now here to make your time on campus a bit easier. The App has several fast and easy to features including the daily Covid Screening, Scan a QR Code, and your Digital ID to check-in for services. Download the App and learn more about the features below.
- Fall 2021
The campus app has added in some new features to make your campus experience faster, safer, and easier. The app now offers:
- COVID RESOURCES: The COVID resources tab allows quick access to COVID testing information as well as allowing vaccinated employees to securely upload their immunization card by clicking on the Employee Certification icon.
- Fall 2021 - Jack-o-lanterns
As a way to celebrate the changing seasons, Fall 2021 temporarily had carved pumpkin icons on the app for the month of October.
- Spring 2021
The campus app has added in some new features to make your on-campus experience faster, safer, and easier. The app has been adjusted to make room for:
- COVID TESTING: All students entering campus for academic or non-academic reasons must take weekly COVID-19 tests. These tests are FREE and scheduling an appointment is a breeze through the app!
- COVID SCREENING: A health screening questionnaire that indicates your status as either CLEAR to attend campus today or NOT CLEAR. This was previously in the top white bar in the app.
- COVID RESOURCES: A collection of information about the SD County run COVID-19 Testing Site and Vaccination Super Center, a map of campus health resources, and CSUSM information about how to ensure your health and safety when on campus.
- Fall 2022
The CSUSM Mobile App has entered into an endemic COVID-19 response/design. Health and safety are still a priority of CSUSM; the COVID-19 resources have been moved under the "Wellness & COVID 19" section.
New Features:
- Location based notifications for app users
- Spring 2023
- Vendor app upgrade: Minor design changes were made during this upgrade process mostly noted in the app's menu system.
- COVID endemic changes