Using cloud-based project management solutions in higher education with real-time visibility

As cloud and mobility is maturing fast, higher education institutions are rapidly adopting next-generation cloud platforms to drive growth. Scheduling and managing projects is challenging and time-consuming. You have to continuously improve your best practices to grow your institution while delivering top-notch services to students and faculty. 

Colleges and universities are struggling to manage and track projects across various departments for successful completion. At present, very few fully utilize cloud and mobile services to manage projects. Cloud and mobile-based project management software tools can be effectively used in higher education institutions to track project progress and provide real-time visibility in resource spending with accurate reports. In addition, it provides better collaboration, task management and invoicing options.    

From project planning and task management to timesheet entry and resource allocation can be a difficult and time-consuming job. Cloud-based Project Management can centrally monitor and manage all these projects from a single location across multiple channels including PCs, smartphones and tablet devices. 

Features

Signs of good project management on college campuses can mean anything from effective communication and collaboration between students, faculty, staff and clients to simple and user-friendly task management available on website and mobile app.

• Create projects and associate multiple users with time and material based billing
• Associate project goals and tasks to employees
• Track task and project deadlines with alerts and reminders
• Ensure task completion by image capture using app
• Allow employees to log their time for each task
• Allocate resource hours based on availability

Benefits

Find out the key benefits for transforming higher education projects from fire-fighting mode to get your projects completed on time and within budget, including:

• Efficient resource allocation for campus administration tasks
• Reduce costs from inefficient work by creating low-level tasks
• Monitor tasks for evaluating employee performance
• Gain visibility into areas where time and resources are being spent
• Escalation alerts on due dates help in time management