Name: Pathify Demo | September 2026
Uploaded: 2026-09-22T19:00:07.284Z
Duration: 27 min 36 s
Description: Pathify Demo | September 2026

Transcript for "Pathify Demo | September 2026": Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Pathify live demo. I'll give everyone another minute or so to hop on in. I hope everyone is having a wonderful Tuesday, And thanks to all of you for coming in. I know you're all very busy. It's a busy time of year, and very grateful to have you in the audience. And give everyone another forty five seconds or so. Alright. And I think it's about time to start the presentation. So hello. My name is Julie Gummerman. I'm the senior sales and excuse me, engineer here at Pathify, and, I'm here to talk to you about what we offer in terms of software. Mainly, we're going to talk about our hub offerings. That said, I know there's some folks in the audience who are interested in things like communities, tasks, the AI agents. We might get into those a little bit as well today too. The biggie here, though, is that we're gonna start off with, talking about Pathify and the niche that it fills in a campus ecosystem. So back when I was in college, and I'll go ahead and date myself, that was two thousand one to two thousand five, it was just cool to be in a dorm room being able to do all the research for or for papers from a computer. I had maybe the the library system to keep track of, an SIS to use to register for classes and check grades in the email. And if I was taking summer classes, maybe I had WebCT. Obviously, over the last twenty, twenty five years, things have gotten so much more complex and more sophisticated. All of a sudden, we've gone from this little world of emails and an SIS, maybe an LMS to, yes, you're probably turning in your papers through the LMS. You're dealing with forms held in various systems, events held across different systems in different departments, files that you're keeping track of, student clubs and student engagement. There's just a lot going on. And somehow or another, students always need to figure out where they're going to be, at a given time, what is coming up, what they need to turn in, and where they need to go to take care of business. And that is where Pathify enters the chat. Pathify takes all these disparate systems dealing with all these different aspects of student life, and it brings them into one ecosystem where it's easy to find what's coming up, where to go to take care of it, what you need to do. You're able to find forms. You're able to find your people all from one single piece of software that is cloud hosted. And so this does a number of things. Obviously, for a student, it makes life significantly less confusing. All of a sudden, you're you know everywhere you need to go. You can find your email. You can find those events. You know what's coming up. You know where you can go to be social. You also know what tasks are up and coming. You remember those parking tickets, that you forgot about because someone's reminding you. That said, from an IT perspective, it also has a number of benefits as well. For one, you have centralized content, but you're able to delegate out that access. So rather than having 15 different departmental platforms, what if everything could just live in one ecosystem with a lightweight CMS and you can use it for Internet? Maybe you can even delegate that out so that nontechnical users can update their content rather than, coming around tapping on the door, making sure that IT is doing it. They're gonna be able to do it themselves. You're also gonna be able to experience cost savings. So with Pathify, what we've seen is that a lot of times, you'll have schools that start off with some five or six different systems where there's some overlap. Maybe you have a situation where you have a student mobile app, but a student browser app, and you also have a staff intranet. Maybe you have an AI agent that's separate from that and then some departmental SharePoint sites. What if you could, again, bring that all into one ecosystem to start cutting fat off the edge of the budget? We have another number of customers who've done that, who've been able to save some 20% of their IT budget doing that. And last but not least, reduced security risk. You just have less people, fewer, cooks in the kitchen, fewer permissions to delegate out. And then another added bonus of Pathify, and I think I kind of alluded to it, the thing about browser apps and mobile apps sometimes being different platforms altogether, what if there were full parity? What if you had a mobile app that reflected the exact content on a browser app and vice versa? Pathify allows you to do that. In fact, we have a browser and mobile app that are actually white labeled for whoever it is who happens to purchase the product. So you can actually choose your own colors, your own branding. For the mobile app, you're able to choose the name and the iconography. It's a pretty cool touch. Another advantage of Pathify is that we are built for all the roles at your institution. Usually, things start off in Pathify, pretty bare bones. Maybe you have four different roles in total, and then you realize, wow. I need more than just students, staff, and admin and everyone. Okay. Let's start bringing in those majors. Let's start bringing in students from different campuses and getting granular about what everyone is actually seeing. You're gonna be able to do that, and the best part is it's all gonna be automated, so you're not having to manually build and assign roles. Another advantage of Pathify that goes back into the tech consolidation benefits is that Pathify offers zero cost vendor agnostic integrations. Some of these are out of the box. Some of these might, be, professional service pieces one way or another, though. We do have integrations that take minimal time to set up. We do also have for those of you who are feeling a little more inspired and have a larger dev team, we do also have options for building your own integrations. That said, speaking of integrations and building them, just because you can do that doesn't mean you have to. Pathify offers a twelve week implementation that is going to allow you to take devs out of the picture unless you choose that you actually want them there. And sometimes you do because devs can do some pretty cool things, but all of a sudden in Pathify, you have nontechnical users able to build out their own content, freeing up dev teams to do actual development work. But don't just take it from me. We're gonna actually go ahead and take a look at the platform itself. So as we're going, I do not see my audience members because I can't. But that said, I figure people probably have some questions. If you have some questions that I'm not getting to, feel free to drop them in chat or in q the q and a, and I'll make sure that I get to them. Alright. And it looks like everyone can see my screen. So I'm currently logged in as a student. Just because of the fact that I have all Pathify branding doesn't mean that this is what yours needs to look like, just so you know. That said, if you want it to look like this, that's great. We have all the administrative controls behind the scenes so you can change up your color scheme. So as a student, I can come in, and I can figure out everything about my ecosystem as a student that I might need to know. As I scroll on down, I can have access to an AI agent if this is enabled where I can go looking around for information about my student life. I can also see information related to what I have going on on campus through widgets. Most of these widgets will have information that has actually been brought into Pathify through integrations from third party systems. Maybe we're talking about events. Probably, a lot of these would have come over through iCals, and through RSS feeds from other systems. We have an activity feed, which does actually show what's happening in terms of content being created and communities that this student user is participating in. We're gonna see any tasks, so to do items. As a student, I'm also totally driven by my stomach. I'm gonna see, an integration that shows campus food. I'm also going to see LMS integration. I mentioned the thing about, being able to turn content, turn pages in papers in through the LMS. Right now, I am able to see everything that I have coming up in my courses, any announcements. Maybe we have some announcements about deadlines being pushed back, requirements, changing. Maybe there were a bunch of snow days, and one of the requirements got dropped. And I'm also able to see my ongoing grades. Maybe I'm able to see some extra pieces, things like, my academic profile or my student balances. So I'm pretty well set up, but it doesn't stop there. There are a lot of things that I have at my disposal as a student user. So one of the things that maybe I need as a student might be access to different, different uploads, different PDFs. These I can find in resources. These are all going to be role driven. I'm a stew I'm in I'm as a student, I'm gonna see things that matter for students, such as PDFs around mental health services and academic policies. Maybe I'm taking a look at athletic policies because I wanna join some intramurals and get involved outside of the classroom. I'm gonna find that yet that here. That said, as a student, these resources are gonna look completely different from a staff member who needs to have information about HR and benefits and if they're in a role where they might be hiring people, what it looks like to actually hire people and what the process is. It's gonna be a totally different set of content than a student will see. As a student, I can also find events and calendars that are relevant to me. So I'm gonna be able to go in and actually see where my classes are and when and when some of those special events like, oh, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Just golf meet up Friday afternoon. Oh, yeah. Let's get some social time in there. And as a student, I can also join and leave calendars. So maybe I want to say, oh, yep. I love a lot of these. And part of me might say, hey. Pathify University Athletics. It was fun while it lasted. I really don't need access to that anymore, and I can unsubscribe. I can also go in and find other things. Like, maybe I'm realizing, oh, study abroad. That looks really cool and really interesting. I would love to study abroad. I'm gonna go ahead and sign up for that. I'm gonna start seeing those different, those different events show up on my calendar as a result of that. Another piece that I'm gonna have access to and need would be forms, and forms are going to trickle up from multiple places. I'm sure that you are seeing the communities forms. These are, surprise surprise, drifting up from Pathify's communities module, which is our clubs and org solution. It also works really well for staff, and departmental Internet. So what I can see is these ones right here have all trickled up from community. So, for example, maybe I have an individual player waiver for the broomball team, and I can come in and check it out and fill it out. I'm also gonna have, though, these stand alone categories. So maybe I'm looking at academic forms, independent study proposal. Yes, please. I've been waiting for that for so long. So excited to finish up my degree and do that. And I'm actually able to fill this out, and someone whose permission is going to be able to go in and actually find my answers after I submit this. So that's forms. It is drag and drop functionality. You should not need to be a tech wizard in order to build out forms. That said, they do all involve conditional logic, and they look pretty darn good. The, the functionality is pretty similar to Google Forms that said it is built natively, and all of the data that it stores is available for export via API. Some other pieces I have access to as a student, should a school choose to enable it, might be a directory. This directory in the demo instance is set up only to show staff members. So we have some student staff here who don't have a whole lot of information filled out because they don't need it. We also have some staff members like our professor Claire Connor listed as a professor who's also in administration, and she has her email and phone number listed so that students can reach out and talk to her. And last but not least, we have maps. So wayfinding, everybody needs to do it. Sometimes it'll be a student who's around for a minute, and they realize I need to go to this office. I have no idea where this is. I've never been there before. I might need to Wayfind. If you're a student who's new to campus, you're probably gonna be in here all the time. This is going to allow your students to navigate their way around campus. It will actually allow them to Wayfind, and they're not going to need to leave their mobile app to do it. They're gonna be able to do it from within the Pathify ecosystem. So in order to do that, let's say I am at University of Denver, and I need to find my way around, and I am looking for special community projects. Okay. We've got it down here, but I'm coming in from out of town. I need some directions. This is going to allow me to wayfind from wherever it is that I am, whether I'm on campus or I'm driving in from an hour off campus like I am actually in real life right now. But the thing here is that if I'm on my phone, it's actually gonna wayfind for me. As I go north from Colorado Springs, where I am right now, onto the University of Denver campus, I'm gonna be able to follow that blue dot and see the traffic. So pretty cool stuff, but we're not quite done yet. Some other pieces I wanna draw your attention to are pages. Pages are Pathify's lightweight CMS. These are going to allow nontechnical users to actually go in and create content within Pathify without having to be technical. So, for example, I'm gonna unimpersonate my student right now. The reason why I'm gonna do that is my student did not have page editing permissions. Right now, I'm logged in as an administrator. I was just masquerading as a student. I can edit pages as an administrator to my happy heart's content. If I wanted to do that, I have a WYSIWYG editor. I have an accessibility checker. If I'm feeling really fancy schmancy, I can even go in and write my own HTML and use Pathify CSS to build some really unique pages. One of the cool things about pages, though, for your users is that okay. Right now, I'm an admin. I can see way too much of everything. You're seeing some student content, some faculty and staff content. It's a little excessive. If I'm a student, I'm not gonna see staff content because I don't need it. If I'm a staff member, I'm probably unless I'm working directly with students and not everyone does on campus, they're not gonna need to see student and student service content. So you're able to really get into who is seeing what and for what purposes. The best part of this is category by category. This is a blank slate, and you can actually restrict who is creating content and managing content for which categories. Because if you're in the bursar's office, you need your own category, but you also need to make sure that it's not accidentally getting edited by the art department. They have great content. They have their own content. They don't need to be messing with the bursar stuff. With rule restrictions, you're able to not only restrict who's actually seeing it, but also who's editing it. And the best part of all of this is I would love to say, as the person who maintains the demo site, I would love, love, love to say that I haven't accidentally deleted content I just made. Unfortunately, I can't say that. I could, but I would be lying. If you're in a situation where someone accidentally accidentally deletes content, you're actually gonna be able to go in and find the version history in here and restore it, and you're gonna be able to see who made what changes over time. So pretty cool stuff, but I know there's some additional content here that folks are interested in. So in just a bit, I'm gonna shift over to communities. That said, before we do that, I think I actually wanna take us from pages into the admin center. And within admin center, I want to take a look at analytics. So one of the questions that I hear all the time as I'm talking to folks about Pathify is how do we know what our users are doing? How do we know what's important to users? How can we make the platform more effective? The answer is I can come in and take a look at analytics and kind of watch my users' movements. For example, I'm able to see sessions by date. Every institution has its own ebbs and flows of who's logging in when. Sometimes, we'll see these, the logins start to pick up on a on a Sunday night and then crest on Monday and then fall like waves throughout the week, and the cycle begins again the next Sunday. Some schools are looking a little bit more like what Pathify is currently looking at, where it crests midweek and then falls. You're gonna be able to find the unique ebbs and flows for you your users by taking a look at this. You're also gonna be able to filter by role. So maybe you're curious about the movements of your first year students versus your seniors or your at risk versus your honor students. You're gonna be able to take a look at those different roles and how they're using the platform differently, or maybe they're not using it differently. If you use analytics, you will know. So I also have some other cool stuff in here. Device type and mobile type. Fun fact here is, again, interesting things you see in a demo site. We have very, very few customers whose usage with devices actually look like this in the demo site. What's happening in the demo site is that most people are demoing from their browser apps. In the real world, most users are actually accessing this from their cell phones and their tablets. So, usually, it's actually the exact opposite of what we're seeing here. And then we're also seeing the popular points within the, within the system. Sometimes it's, again, a little all over the place like with this. More often, you're gonna see specific user trends. If you're curious what your users are searching for so you can prioritize it, you can come down under search terms, and you can again filter by role. Within the, Pathify interface, we're seeing, a lot of test users for various account executives and sales engineers like myself. In the wild, you're more gonna see searches like email. Yes. Maybe there is a school, and it is actually a true story, where they figured that email would be the least of anyone's issues, one would assume. They took a look at their search results, and they realized that was not the case. Everyone was looking up their email. That institution was able to go in and prioritize email. They pinned the widget. They've added some links to make it super obvious. It became a not so commonly used search term anymore. And the most interesting part of analytics to me is user activity. Not only can I filter by role and by individual user, but I can also filter by any particular action that one can take in the platform? Like, let's say I am curious about who's searching the AI agent for what. I can actually come in and load those analytics and be like, wow. This Julie c Gummerman and this Chase student, these folks are in the AI agent all the time. Let's go ahead and get in touch with them and see if they're gonna be our student ambassadors on how to use the AI agent. Another thing that you could use there is if you're getting the communities module. You can also have this hooked up to your activities in order to track who's doing what. So maybe people are getting credit for going to events and things like that. And that is analytics in a nutshell. So we have about seven more minutes. I'm going to take you on the world's quickest tour of a Pathify community. I'm going to see if we have any questions at the end and then we're going to call it a day. So here is an example of a Pathify community. Traditionally, communities were, a clubs and org solution. That said, it's grown well and beyond that. There is absolutely no reason why you cannot use, communities for special interest student groups that go beyond clubs and orgs. There's also no reason it cannot be used as a staff Internet or intranet, if I can if I can get my, prefixes right there. So what I can do if I'm a community, maybe I have everything turned on full blast with group chats and forms, but maybe I'm not feeling quite that inspired. Maybe all I need is a community that advertises free food on campus. Totally something that people have done on various campuses that always get some pretty good turnout, and the only thing they have enabled is a discussion board. So it can look like this with everything turned on. It can look like a discussion board only, or it can be anything that you want in the middle of that. But within a community, I have the ability to send announcements. Hey. This meeting got moved. We're gonna bump it back to Thursday. It's gonna be in this room instead of that room. Maybe I'm including events that I can also post on the dashboard. Maybe I want frequently asked questions or club guidelines or resources I'm going to be able to bring up. I'm able to contain all of that within a community, and, yes, they can be role bound. They can also be public or private. It is the community member's choice. And on that note, we have about five more minutes left. Does anyone have any questions for me? Feel free to dump them in the chat or in the q and a. Alright. And one last thing before folks sign off. We are doing a Pathify Summit here in late October, and we would love to have folks on this call come join us. And if you would like, feel free to, sign up. Use that QR code. It'll take you to the sign up page. And last but not least, I'm sure that because of the fact that no one is asking questions, that must mean that I have done an amazing job of presenting. That said, oh, I see there might be a question from Chris. Hold on two seconds. Have I heard of any use cases where an institution might have gone with a competitor from their university wide campus mobile app, but a particular college or unit stood up their own smaller dedicated app using Pathify. Absolutely. Yes. We have seen that. We see that a lot with business schools that are part of larger universities. So, say MIT Sloan, Wharton, some of those, is where we tend to see it in the larger universities where there's a need to have a smaller, self contained student, portal or platform. I knew there had to be extra questions floating around. And just in case there are but people are feeling shy, again, my name is Julie Gummerman. I'm the senior sales engineer here at Pathify. I'm the technical strong-arm and product expert for the sales team. If you have any questions for me, feel free to fire me an email. I will make sure I get back to you or, get you in touch with someone who can answer your questions. And on that note, I'm gonna sign off. Have an awesome Tuesday.