Cool Tools for Back to School: The Seneca apps | Academic Newsletter | Seneca Polytechnic

by Sherri Parkins, Counselling and Accessibility Services and the Teaching & Learning Centre

in the September 2019 issue

Seneca has a suite of apps to support students and employees: Seneca Mobile, Seneca Navigate, and Seneca Safe.

One of the first Seneca Apps you will want to introduce your students to is Seneca Mobile. With the CafeQ feature, they will be able to tell if they can pick you up your favorite coffee on the way to class or if the lineup will be long and they will be too late (even if they bring you a coffee). Academic tasks can tell them if that cup of coffee should be accompanied by an assignment that is due! They might even read those Seneca emails through the App.

Seneca Navigate can help them locate their classrooms (especially during the first few weeks of the semester).

Seneca SAFE provides various supports to services on campus that students might need in an emergency. With Friend Walk, the app connects the student to a contact of their choice while they navigate with real time updates on their location. If you are ever working on campus alone, you can contact Security through the Working Alone feature. Other features connect individuals to supports such as Counselling and Accessibility Services and Good2Talk, a 24-hour phone support line for post-secondary students.

View the September 2019 issue of the Academic Newsletter.