Peer-Led Learning Virtual Study Platform

The Vendor is required to provide for a fully hosted peer-led learning virtual study platform to assist in increasing student retention, graduation, and overall engagement rates.
- The solution shall provide a virtual peer-led learning platform include:
• Class Communication: Enables students to chat with peers in their class and allows professors to create chat groups for targeted discussions, similar to group me or WhatsApp.
• Direct communication: Enables students to directly message a tutor or one another.
• Flashcards: enables students to create and share flashcards with each other, similar to quiz let.
• Private messaging: Facilitates direct communication between students without sharing personal contact information.
• Video conferencing: Supports student to student and student to tutor live video chats and collaborative study sessions via video conferencing tools.
• Personal organization: Includes a personal planner and task management system to enhance student productivity.
• Collaborative notes: Enables students to take notes and share their notes with the class or select students.
• Anonymous questions: Allows students to ask anonymous questions that can be answered by students, tutors, and professors.
• Student feedback surveys: Includes student reflection surveys that allow students to anonymously share where they may be stuck or struggling in class, creating a real-time feedback loop.
• Study library: Student shared content exists in a shared study library that exists over multiple semesters.
• Gamification: Include gamification model that encourages engagement, collaboration and ultimately leads to higher average grades and pass rates.
• Incentive delivery: Scholarships and micro-rewards included and distributed to students and tutors.
• Integration: Have the ability to integrate with the LMS (blackboard) and be able to integrate with banner and allows university user management to integrate through SAML single sign-on (SSO) for secure user authentication.
- Utilizes a peer-led learning tool to provide outreach, engagement, and crucial information to students, 24-hours a day via the app
- Operates using native mobile apps and a browser
- Framework utilizes gamification to engage students in their learning
- Training for faculty and SI and ongoing support
- Utilize a resource knowledge base that is customized to the institution
- Include a web-based dashboard, showing data and analytics in real-time, which university administrators have access to
- Dashboard analytics shall include student-specific insights around engagement
- Ensure that the solution is ADA compliant and compatible with both windows and mac systems.
- Provide services for 28,000 students with a target population size of 10,000
- Solution shall have stable and consistent performance during the peak times during the academic calendar year.
- The solution must be able to encrypt all web access (HTTPS).
- The solution should allow users to have multiple roles without requiring multiple login accounts.
- Solution shall have a reporting engine/dashboard for analysis of responses.
- The solution must integrate with current university authentication services and protocols.
- The solution should integrate with university institutional information for user account and profile provisioning and de provisioning (create, update, and delete operations).
- The solution should integrate with existing university services to manage groups, roles, and permissions.
- Conduct weekly updates to the implementation team and quarterly updates to key university stakeholders; progress reports and any other relevant documentation shall be provided.
- The solution’s access control model should be flexible and extensible by the university as required to meet business needs.
- The solution should allow configuration of user session controls that meet university security and privacy needs including dual authentication.
- The solution’s web interface should work with chrome, Firefox, safari, edge, and IE browsers.
- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Non-Mandatory Pre-Proposal Conference Date: February 28, 2025
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: February 28, 2025