University Of Maryland
Market Segment: Educations
Customer Since: 2014
Overview
The Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland is the home of an emerging academic discipline, exciting interdisciplinary degree programs, and faculty and students who want to make a difference in human health care through education, research, and invention. Every year, this department holds a competition for their Students’ Choice Award, for which students text their vote for their favorite group poster.
Solution
The Fischell Department wanted a new way for their students to vote that was immediate and paper free. Working with their coordinator, the Smart Office team created over 30 keywords that were associated with each poster. Every poster had instruction to text that keyword if they thought it deserved a vote. All answers were immediately registered in the text platform and the department knew the winner immediately without having to sort through a ballot box.
Impact
The Fishcell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland loved this program so much, they have come back every year to re create the voting campaign. Benefits from this program :
- Easy way to vote through a mobile phone
- No paper or ballots to sort through and count
- Immediate responses that can be seen and exported
This strategy offered the department an easy way to handle the votes and all the students needed was their mobile phone.
