Higher Education Consortium

All of ZogoTech’s software has been built in conjunction with leaders of higher education. ZogoTech’s process is to identify leaders in the field of higher education, listen to them, and implement those requirements. Thus, partner schools benefit from best practices from other leaders in higher education.

While ZogoTech is always available to help customers add on new functionality to Estudias on a per hour or per project basis the Consortium provides an alternative. As part of the Consortium,

1. ZogoTech works with your school to identify possible projects that would be of interest to other consortium members and potential clients
2. ZogoTech develops new functionality at reduced or no charge. ZogoTech handles all phases (Requirements Analysis, Design, Implementation, User Interface Design, Testing, and Documentation)
3. ZogoTech incorporates the functionality into Estudias and releases it to other consortium members and sells it to new schools
4. Contributing consortium members receive credits that can reduce or eliminate yearly maintenance / upgrade charge

In many respects, the ZogoTech Consortium is like extending your IT department without having to hire someone skilled in business analysis, user interface design, database design, programming, and documentation.

Example Work with Schools

Below are some ways that ZogoTech has worked with schools as part of the Consortium. This functionality becomes part of the overall product, available to all ZogoTech customers.

Remediation Analysis

A project prompted by one school’s work with Achieving the Dream, this software was developed and used to show the impact of learning communities in developmental education gatekeeper course completion. See: http://zogotech.com/atd


Remediation Analysis

Program Review

This planned module will show Profit/Loss by program, as well as Faculty and Course statistics. It has been developed by a client and will be integrated into Estudias.

Outcome Categorization

Working on-site with one school for a day, this project was to develop appropriate groupings for students at the beginning and end of a term for retention analysis. For a simple example, at the beginning of a term, Estudias calculates the student status as New, Continuing, Stop In, or Transfer In (via National Student Clearinghouse integration). This has been presented and widely praised at national and regional Institutional Research conferences. See: http://zogotech.com/air2006