About Connect25

Connect25™ is a student engagement platform built to work natively with 25Live. It gives campuses a single system to plan, fund, promote, manage, and measure student activities — with no third-party integration required.   

Benefits

Organization, event, and reservation data synchronizes with 25Live scheduling, improving visibility and tying student engagement to other campus operations while still preventing conflicts

Role-based security group permissions and single sign-on (SSO) configurations are unified with the rest of Series25

Connect25 works natively with the rest of Series25 — no third-party integration setup required

Approval workflows automate routing, notifications, and actions across organization and event management

AI-powered tools help administrators build forms and workflows in seconds from a plain-text prompt

Event registration, check-in, badge tracking, and engagement analytics give institutions a complete picture of student participation

Built-in elections management supports student governance from nominations through voting and results

Connect25 offers several communication options, including chat channels, direct messaging, news articles, and email

Students can take ownership of their organizations while administrators maintain oversight through security settings and approval processes

Organization Management

Each organization in Connect25 gets a searchable directory entry and a content-rich Details page where administrators and members can view and edit the logo, mission statement, and status.

• Organization data is available in dedicated tabs: events, news, forms, budgets, service hours, files, and security settings.
• A Members tab gives organization leaders a full roster with contact cards, roles, and role-based permissions.
• Organization-specific forms support membership agreements, event requests, and more.
• Import your organizations using an easy spreadsheet import tool that supports adding organizations, membership lists, and contact data.

Image: News articles can be used to promote group happenings.

Event Registration and Management

Manage event registration and self-check-ins with a full set of attendance statuses. Track attendance via QR code, self check-in link, or institution ID card swipe, and use this data to report on engagement.

Connect25 provides dashboard views and tools for managing your events, including:

• Event discovery, search, and browsing
• Event Details pages with customizable layouts per organization
• Featured and promoted event categories
• Post-event survey configuration
• Attendee management with export and bulk email

Image: Registration functionality helps track engagement.

Custom Form Building and Reporting

Connect25 builds helps you build for event registration, post-event surveys, membership applications, organization setup, and any other process that requires structured data collection on campus. 

• Forms can include custom fields, existing 25Live data (such as organizations and resources), and dynamic logic that shows or hides fields based on user responses.
• The AI Form and Workflow Builder lets administrators generate a complete form and corresponding workflow from a simple text prompt.
• The Search and Aggregations tools let you query responses across one or more forms, filter by organization or event, and export results to Excel. Aggregations can compute counts, sums, and averages across any numeric field — useful for understanding trends across post-event surveys, registration data, and more.

Image: Example of a form dashboard and custom survey.

Workflow

Connect25 workflows automate the review and approval process for any form submission. Build multi-stage workflows that route submissions to the right people, trigger actions automatically when a stage completes, and track where every request stands in real time. Workflow capabilities include:

• Multi-stage approval routing with configurable approval groups, individual contacts, or organization roles
• An AI Approver option that evaluates submissions against criteria you define and issues an approve, deny, or request-changes decision automatically — with human reviewers as fallback
• HTTP Actions that connect workflow outcomes to external systems such as CRMs, notification services, or project management platforms — without custom integration work
• Workflow Initialization Rules that automatically assign a workflow to a form submission based on the submission’s field values, removing the need for manual assignment
• A visual workflow diagram that updates as you build, so you can verify stage connections before going live
• Workflow Action History and Submission Workflow Audit logs for troubleshooting and compliance review

Image: Example of an auto-generated workflow diagram.

Volunteer Tracking

Students log volunteer hours in Connect25, tied to specific organizations, and submit them to administrators for approval. Once completed, all approved, pending, denied, and total service hours will increment on your Service Hours dashboard along with a description of each entry.

Image: Service hours can be recorded and submitted for approval.

Budgeting

Organizations request funding, track spending by line item, and route budget plans through an approval process — all managed from a central administration dashboard. Features include: Fiscal year management Budget plans and line items with planned and actual amounts Approval workflows for budget plan submissions Budget administration dashboard with summary totals and pending request queue

Image: Budget Administration is available for users with the appropriate rights to monitor funding.

Elections

Connect25 manages the entire election lifecycle — nominations, candidates, voting, and results — entirely within the platform. Key capabilities include: Separate nomination and voting windows with configurable start and end dates Optional nomination forms so community members can nominate candidates Candidate management with campaign briefs and photos Voter eligibility rules scoped to all users, organization members, or a specific role In-platform ballot casting and an Election Results page with per-position breakdowns

Image: Set up nomination and voting with the Elections feature.

Engagement Analytics, Reporting, and Badges

Connect25 turns participation data into actionable insight through Engagement Analytics — filterable charts covering attendance trends, top organizations, top events, top locations, event categories, membership growth, and demographic breakdowns — all viewable by date range, organization, event, and location. Engagement Reports show overall and per-organization scores over time, with configurable activity weighting so each institution can reflect its own priorities.

The Low Activity Report identifies students whose recent engagement has dropped relative to their own baseline — a proactive tool for advisors to reach students before disengagement becomes a problem.

Badges add a gamification layer that motivates student participation. Administrators can create custom badges with criteria tied to any of 15 activity types — logins, event check-ins, form submissions, organization membership, and more. Badges can be visible or secret, and students track their progress and earned badges from their My Activity page.

Image: Summary and Attendance Over Time analytics.

Communication