Unitu - The Student Voice Platform

Unitu is online feedback and collaborative software that transforms the student experience. We’re building a symbiotic system around the current structure of academic departments; ensuring that it connects students, staff and course reps together and allows for feedback and collaboration to flow seamlessly and intuitively.

Through our discussion with hundreds of staff and students across the UK, we found that University feedback systems are ineffective, costly and time consuming. They lack strong channels of communication between those involved in the feedback loop.

Unitu closes the feedback loop by creating a connected community and allowing representative feedback to flow consistently. We have two particular services that enhances collaboration and feedback within academic departments.

Academic Hubs
Academic hubs brings all students together into personalised spaces that allow them to communicate and collaborate with classmates, seniors and course representatives in a number of different ways. There are four types of hubs; course hub, module hubs, group hubs and feedback hub.

Issues sent to reps populate the the feedback hub and are publicly displayed for students to engage with in a number of ways. They can vote an issue and engage in dialogue. This gives reps the ability to assess the representativeness and priority of issues. Once an issue is refined reps can take issues to the notify board for staff to see.

Notify
Staff will be provided their own account with a set of features that enable them to communicate with reps and students and visibly manage issues.

Reps can take important issues from their hubs to the notify board. The notify board is a tool for reps and staff to raise and organise issues. Once an issue has been raised by reps, Staff can then take it forward to either the ‘in progress’ or ‘resolved’ column. This enhances transparency and visibility by showing to students the status of their issues in a really simply way.