Orientation Is Over. Now What?
How Advantage Orientation Keeps Delivering Value Long After Orientation Ends.
Orientation has wrapped. Your new students are several weeks into their first semester. From a logistics standpoint, the job is done. But the need for the information shared during orientation doesn’t end when orientation does.
A student might find themselves in the library during midterms, overwhelmed and suddenly remembering that orientation covered a resource that could help. The problem? They can’t remember what it was called or where to find it.
That’s where a one-time orientation experience falls short. The information was shared. But without a way to revisit it, students are left searching for answers they’ve already been given.
Orientation May End. Student Needs Don't.
Traditional, in-person orientation happens once. Once the sessions are over, students can’t replay a presentation, revisit a conversation or easily double-check something they heard.
If they don’t absorb the information the first time, they may have no easy way to access it again when they need it. This creates real downstream problems for:
- Orientation teams who spend significant time and budget building sessions with a narrow shelf life.
- Student success teams who field repeated questions about orientation material because students have no way to revisit it.
- Students who are left digging for information on their own, usually at the exact moment they're too stressed to search effectively.
Keep Orientation Information Within Reach
Advantage Orientation serves as an information and resource hub for students long after the first week.
As a digital platform, it keeps the orientation or pre-orientation experience online, accessible, and up to date throughout a student’s college experience. Instead of trying to remember something they heard during orientation or track down an answer amidst hundreds of emails, students have one place they can return to whenever they need it.
Advantage Orientation shifts orientation in a few key ways:
- Students know exactly where to go. Every student gets a login, giving them one reliable place to find the information they need. No more guessing where the answer lives or digging through a maze of university web pages.
- It’s a living resource, not an ephemeral snapshot. Students can log back in anytime to revisit something they vaguely remember from orientation, without having to start from scratch or figure out where to look.
- It creates consistency across campuses. Every student, regardless of campus, program, or cohort, gets the same accurate, standardized information. That means less variation based on who delivered the session or when it took place.
- It stays current. Because the experience is digital, information can be updated as things change. No printed packet from in-person orientation that’s already outdated by the following semester.
Extend the Value of Orientation
Your orientation investment shouldn’t stop delivering value when orientation ends.
Students may not remember everything they hear during orientation. But what matters is that they have a place to return to when they need that information again. An online orientation gives students that place, allowing your orientation to continue serving them long after the event is over.
The goal isn’t to make orientation longer. It’s to make what you’ve already shared last longer.
Give your orientation a longer life with Advantage Orientation. Complete the form in the sidebar to discover how a digital orientation or pre-orientation experience can keep your students informed and connected throughout their time at your institution.