What if every new student arrived feeling more prepared, confident, and connected to your institution?
Advantage Orientation is a digital student orientation platform that helps colleges and universities welcome, inform, and prepare new students and families before they arrive. Create a personalized, self-paced experience that brings your campus and resources to life, reinforces enrollment decisions, and gives students clear next steps for a successful start.
Designed to complement your in-person orientation programs, Advantage Orientation gives your team one easy-to-manage platform for delivering engaging content, tracking participation, and understanding student engagement.
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Explore real-world stories, results, and insights from colleges and universities transforming how they welcome, prepare, and connect students.
Connection is paramount at Old Dominion University, and their online orientation needed to reflect that. Advantage Orientation brought ODU's campus to life, with vibrant videos featuring real members of their campus community that welcome students into their new chapter as an ODU monarch.
"Choosing Advantage Design Group over other competitors was almost a no-brainer for me. It truly felt like there was no other platform or organization that we wanted to work with to provide this information to students."
Leah Mudd
Director of Orientation
Old Dominion University
The University of Idaho needed an onboarding solution that created belonging before students ever stepped on campus. With Advantage, they built a fully customized digital orientation platform featuring real students that delivers everything incoming students need in an engaging, meaningful way.
"The full-service piece of it, the fact that you guys could help coach up some of our talent to tell our story the right way—that was the bow on the present itself."
Chris Cook
Executive Director for Admissions & Recruitment
University of Idaho
Steeped in tradition and history, Denison University modernized its new student orientation experience with a new model, while continuing to provide the highly personalized approach and keep relationships first.
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Montana University' brand shines through this online orientation to reach more underserved student populations, prepare new students for immersive welcome events, and promote a culture of respect.
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Florida International University is a public institution that was founded in 1972. It has a total graduate enrollment of 10, 069 (fall 2022), and the campus size is 344 acres.
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Start with a ready-to-use digital orientation that helps you quickly engage and prepare new students and their families. Customize by language and student type to deliver a seamless, supportive experience that meets learners where they are and sets them up for success.
See It in Action
Professionally produced student orientation videos introduce your campus, people, resources, and culture before students arrive. From concept and scripting to on-campus filming and final production, our creative team handles it all, helping students and families feel connected from the start.
Just like being there! Show students and families what's waiting for them on campus.
Impress new students with an opening anthem from a group of your best student ambassadors.
Students and families want to hear directly from the top, so provide an authentic message from your institution's president, provost, or dean.
With Advantage Orientation®, launching and managing your virtual orientation is easy. You gain a comprehensive system to increase efficiency, scale processes, expand your capacity, and make data-driven decisions.
Your Advantage Orientation® is completely responsive and hosted in the cloud, so there is no software download or third-party app needed to make your experience totally accessible on any device. Plus, the system automatically syncs across devices. Start the program on your phone, then pick up right where you left off on your laptop. The path toward completion is easy and convenient.
If you don't have the time or resources to produce the kind of virtual orientation you envision, rely on our team of expert UX designers, video producers, content creators, and developers to produce a tailored solution. Our proven production process is led by your dedicated project manager who collaborates with you to keep your project on task and on target.
Align your Advantage Orientation® with your institutional brand. Custom design services include three unique interface design concepts from which to choose.
Do you want to appeal to different orientation audiences? Start by leveraging the Self-Directed Content feature included with every Advantage Orientation®. Allow audience segments to choose tracks of information most relevant to them to personalize the experience. Additionally, you don't have to let language be a barrier to participation in your virtual orientation. Ask about our language translation services.
Anticipating policy or process changes? Not a problem! Advantage Orientation is easy to update. Using the platform's built-in content management system, you can update your content at any time in a matter of minutes. No special coding skills or IT assistance is needed.
Each interaction with your platform creates a digital footprint that can be viewed in real-time! Analyze and retrieve meaningful data from aggregate to individual views. These reports allow you to monitor progress, identify most popular content, measure completion rates, and much more.
Your Advantage Orientation® comes with limitless training and support. Start with two training sessions for you and your team to master the basics. Then, if you ever need help or need to train new staff, reach out to the Client Success team at any time. Your system includes training session recordings, FAQs, and complete system documentation.
Because of Advantage Orientation's modular framework, you can always add more content and more features at any time. We are here to help you adapt to evolving audience needs and organizational changes.
Advantage Orientation® includes purposeful features to increase accessibility, promote convenience, invite interaction, extend engagement, and improve retention. You can expect higher completion rates, even when your online orientation is optional!
Orientation software adheres to ADA Compliance Standards using Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.2 Level AA. This means that your orientation platform is responsive and accessible to those with disabilities. Videos are closed-captioned so those with hearing impairments can complete your orientation with ease.
Dynamic style options allow content to be presented in a variety of ways to create a more engaging content flow. Options include image galleries, multiple videos, video size options, and interactive design elements that all work together, interchangeably.
Advantage Orientation® isn’t just an informational orientation. Your audience will be continuously engaged with what they’re learning through fully gamified content! Play matching or word search games. Earn a score with our exclusive "This or That" game.
Discovery tools enhance the experience and supplement navigation. Intelligent Search, Popularity-Based FAQs, Glossary Terms, Checklist, and a design-elevated Achievement Center allow for quick access to individual interests and information needed at the moment. Curious minds needs to know!
With personalized items of interest, specific topics can be selected to explore later. Each topic selected is stored and presented when orientation is completed! This feature supports engagement strategy by reducing distractions and speeds completion. Plus, through the system's reporting panel, you can see which items of interest are selected most often.
Your orientation platform features interactive content that attracts attention, invites engagement, and promotes learning. From video quizzes to text quizzes, games, items of interest, and more, interacting with the content makes the experience more fun and exciting.
Now you can balance time to complete with time to retain! Navigation delay timers allow you to choose the amount of time spent on each slide. Assigned to any slide type, set the delay timer for the length of a video or on slides that present the most critical information. You'll never have to wonder which topics have been experienced, you'll know.
You can rest assured that all data is securely hosted. Data is protected by firewalls, vulnerability scanning, patch management, logging, and monitoring.
Does Advantage Orientation® sound like the right fit for you? Great! When you complete this form, you'll be one step closer to securing your virtual orientation solution.
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