Beacon - Digital Guide 17+
Digital Guide to Student Life
Staffordshire University
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Beacon is your intelligent digital guide to student life. Just like you, it will be learning more and more skills and knowledge over the years to come, some of the things it can do include:
• View your timetable
• Search the staff directory
• View the contact details for your lecturers, personal tutor and course leader
• Check PCs availability
• Request important documents
• Browse news and events
• Order a new student card
• Search the societies and clubs you can join
• Get direction to rooms and places on the campus
• Get answers to common questions across all our services: Careers, Counselling, Digital, International Student, Library, Student Enabling, Student Services and Students' Union
What’s New
Version 3.8.2
- PC Availability - Can search PCs with a specific software
- PC Availability - Display the room timetable to check for availability
Ratings and Reviews
Crashing
Very convenient, but for the last couple weeks it has been crashing, so preventing me from recording my attendance.
Unfit for purpose
As frustrating as every other aspect of communication with the university unfortunately. What use is a timetable without location information? OK I now know when I have a class but where? Also, one of my modules is missing altogether! So I don’t know when half my classes are and where the rest are located! Automating this sort of thing and putting a friendly little robot face on it would be one thing if it actually worked but it doesn’t and then it just makes it harder to access human help, a few days till classes start and several increasingly frantic phone calls and emails later, still no idea where! While welcome week didn’t feel very welcoming when there was such limited information on how to access the events, again I had to call around to find out the location of physical events because that wasn’t on Beacon and was unable to access online events as there was no information on Beacon except that they were online! This has so many gaps that they shouldn’t really be presenting it as a finished project, let alone expecting students to rely on it. The one thing that seems to work well is tracking non-attendance at events you are unable to attend because no information on how to access them is included in the app!
Beacon is a digital Pensieve
Dumbledore had a Pensieve to help him remember, if you’re a muggle you’ve got Beacon 👍👌 ‘when is my next lecture’ - a question asked far too often 😂
App Privacy
The developer, Staffordshire University, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Staffordshire University
- Size
- 25 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © Copyright Staffordshire University 2018-2022 | All Rights Reserved
- Price
- Free