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onby pulls your orgs’ PhoenixCONNECT events into one feed and reminds you before they start.
What it does
A feed of your orgs
Follow the orgs you care about and their PhoenixCONNECT events come to you, soonest first. Nothing from orgs you don’t follow.
Reminders you set yourself
Save an event and you get a nudge before it starts. Turn on the morning digest if you want one note a day with what’s on at Elon.
A map of where things are
Every event is on a campus map with walking directions, because finding the right room in Moseley is half the battle.
Also
- Say I’m going and see who else is in.
- Send any event to your calendar.
- Invite a friend to an event from inside the app.
- Choose which notifications you get, with quiet hours enforced on the server.
- @elon.edu only. No public profiles.
- Read only. Events come from PhoenixCONNECT and link back to it.
If you run an org
You don’t have to do anything. Keep posting events on PhoenixCONNECT like you already do. Students who follow you see them in onby, with a reminder before they start, and every event links back to your PhoenixCONNECT page. If you’d rather not be in it, tell me and your org is out the same day.
onby starts at Elon with a set of approved organizations. Everything else is on PhoenixCONNECT, one tap away, and the list can grow from there.
Getting in
- 1Sign in with your @elon.edu email.
- 2Follow a few orgs.
- 3Show up.
Questions
- Who can use it?
- Anyone with an @elon.edu email. Signup is checked on the server, so it stays Elon only.
- Does it cost anything?
- No. No ads, no paid tier.
- Does it replace PhoenixCONNECT?
- No. PhoenixCONNECT is still where orgs register, post events and take sign-ups. onby reads the public events, never writes anything back, and links to PhoenixCONNECT every time.
- How does my org get on it?
- There’s nothing to set up. If your org posts public events on PhoenixCONNECT and is part of the pilot, they show up. I don’t take event submissions and I won’t ask you to post twice.
- Why do I only see some orgs?
- onby starts with a set of approved organizations so I can measure how it goes. Everything else is on PhoenixCONNECT, one tap away, and the list can grow from there.
- Will it spam me?
- Every notification type has its own switch, quiet hours are enforced on the server, reminders only fire for events you saved, and the morning digest is off until you turn it on.
- What do you collect?
- Public event and org information from PhoenixCONNECT, and what you save or follow inside the app. No rosters, no attendance. You can block people and delete your account from inside the app.
- Where do I get it?
- App Store and Google Play.
Get onby.
Free, on iPhone and Android.
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