Pladia for Colleges & Universities

Transform your campus with an intelligent, accessible digital experience featuring landmark navigation, inclusive content, and insights that enhance engagement and satisfaction.

Transform engagement across your campus

Reduce uptake friction with a mobile-first wayfinding and content distribution solution that requires no logins or downloads -lowering staff demand and improving the experience for students and visitors alike.

Abstract map graphic highlighting Pladia Pathways feature, showing a connected route through park attractions including seasonal blooms, a kids’ trail, and waterfront activities.

Connect every corner of your campus

Large campuses can be difficult to navigate. Pladia’s Pathways feature provides step-by-step directions that guide visitors using visible landmarks, both indoors and outdoors. Whether finding a building, event, or point of interest, Pathways makes campus navigation effortless.

Key features

Tours

Guide visitors every step of the way. Configure and publish tailored paths that highlight key stops, stories, or spaces, adapted to any audience or environment.

Image Recognition

Visitors simply point our in-app camera at a QR code or artwork to open its digital guide entry, making it easy to access stories, media, and interpretation without searching or scrolling.

Pathways

Offer step-by-step indoor and outdoor navigation that adapts to how people explore. No beacons, no downloads—just intuitive wayfinding that works in real spaces, in real time.

Audio Access+

Let visitors listen their way with phone speakers, transcripts, or headphones. No extra hardware needed—just a smartphone for accessible, on-demand audio in any setting.

Digital Labels

Share location-aware content on-site with fixed displays. Highlight artifacts, introduce spaces, or tell stories with context-aware labels that scale across galleries, exhibitions, and public areas.

Interactive Kiosks

Help visitors get oriented fast. Touchscreen kiosks provide intuitive maps and real-time information, perfect for entrances, lobbies, and areas with limited mobile access.

Accessibility

Make every visit inclusive with step-free routes, multilingual content, screen reader support, and adjustable text sizes. Designed to meet diverse needs across languages and abilities.

Visitor Analytics

Track visitor behavior, content views, and engagement trends. Use real-time data to measure impact, improve storytelling, and make informed decisions about what’s working.

Understand your campus to improve every visit

Review analytics and feedback from your users to see how they move through your campus, what they engage with, and where they drop off. From finding the next lecture to open days, use insights to shape better experiences, improve accessibility, and ensure everyone can find what they need, on their terms.

Blueprint for a more connected campus experience

01

Streamline student orientation

Provide new students with intuitive, mobile-first wayfinding and contextual content to help them navigate campus in their first days — reducing anxiety, easing staff demand, and creating a stronger first impression.

02

Support prospective student tours

Enable self-guided tours with embedded storytelling, allowing prospective students and families to explore campus highlights at their own pace outside of scheduled events.

03

Improve access to student services

Help students locate academic support, health services, counseling, and other resources quickly and confidently, effectively boosting uptake and promoting wellbeing.

04

Connect the community to campus events

Embed links to sign up for events, purchase tickets, and book spaces, ensuring students and visitors can easily attend lectures, performances, exhibitions, and sporting events.

05

Enhance accessibility without adding hardware

Offer step-by-step indoor routes, location-specific content, and flexible navigation modes that support neurodiverse, disabled, and abled-bodied users, meeting compliance goals and advancing inclusion.

06

Integrate multilingual digital capabilities

Leverage the latest speech technology to make place-based storytelling and navigation accessible, multilingual, and adaptable to individual needs, delivering the media through headphones, phone-to-ear audio, or transcripts.

Empower

Unlock a new era of visitor interaction with innovative, adaptable tools for creating a digital companion as unique as your venue.

Your own PWA—not another portfolio app
Storytelling and navigation combined
Analytics and Visitor Feedback

Extend

Publish high-quality, cohesive digital experiences to displays. Create engaging digital object labels, interactive kiosks, and more.

Compatible with your preferred media player
Go live in days, not months
Seamless integration with Pladia Empower