Campus-Wide Tegrity Campus Scores High Marks With Students

SANTA CLARA, Calif., - tegrity, provider of the leading class capture web service for higher education, announced that it will unveil the results of an important study highlighting the impact of tegrity Campus 2.0 class capture web service on student achievement at Saint Mary's university of Minnesota during a webinar this week.

Saint Mary's university initially deployed tegrity in a proof of concept study with a small number of faculty teaching undergraduate courses. Building on the success of the initial study, Saint Mary's expanded campus-wide in the spring of 2006. Within five semesters, well over half the faculty had adopted tegrity's class capture service across several departments and more than 100 course sections, including courses offered to non-traditional and adult learners. During 2007 alone, Saint Mary's faculty created 5023 recordings.

"The successful deployment of tegrity at Saint Mary's university is a fantastic example of how tegrity can be easily utilized to provide benefits for an entire campus -- students, faculty and institution alike," said Isaac Segal, tegrity CEO. "Saint Mary's proves that tegrity gives every student increased opportunities to learn and achieve, without burdening instructors, and institutions benefit from enhanced student satisfaction and retention."

In the Spring of 2008, faculty and administration at Saint Mary's conducted a survey of students to determine the impact of tegrity on student learning. Of the 862 student respondents, which included both users and non-users, 65% reported that tegrity increased their focus on the most important learning objectives for the course, approximately 60% reported that tegrity increased their preparation for exams, overall performance on tests, and increased satisfaction with courses and course material. Notably, cumulative grade point average (GPA) was proven to be significantly higher for tegrity users than for non-users.

"When comparing cumulative gpas between students who use tegrity versus those who don't, the results are clear. tegrity offers a significant advantage," said Dr. Chad Kjorlien, Director of Instructional Technology at Saint Mary's university.
tegrity Campus 2.0 is the only class capture web service to make class time available all the time, for every student, by automatically capturing, storing and indexing every class on campus for replay anytime, anywhere. With patented tegrity "search anything" technology, students can instantly recall key class moments at any point during a captured lecture. tegrity Campus is easy to use and requires no special hardware or software to implement, meaning that it easily and affordably scales across an entire campus, enabling every student to enhance their academic performance, improve satisfaction and increase student retention while providing low cost of ownership for institutions.

Located in Winona, Minnesota, Saint Mary's university is a Catholic institution serving close to 6,000 undergraduate and graduate and professional students in the greater Minnesota and Wisconsin areas.
For more information about the use of tegrity at Saint Mary's university, including implementation, adoption and usage as well as tegrity's impact on the institution, register for the webinar (https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registratio n.jsp&eventid=116096&sessionid=1&key=84) (due to URL length, please copy and paste into browser) on September 17 at 2:00pm EDT hosted by Campus Technology. Guest speakers will include key staff members and faculty at Saint Mary's including Thomas Mans, PhD, VP for Academic Affairs; Dr. Janel Schultz, Ed.D. Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics; Patrick Barlow, PhD, director of Assessment; as well as Kjorlien.

About tegrity
tegrity Campus 2.0 is the leading web service class capture system, impacting learning, student satisfaction and retention across the entire institution. Requiring no hardware or software installation, tegrity Campus 2.0 makes class time available all the time by automatically capturing, storing and indexing every class on campus for replay by every student. Educators know that the more students can see, hear, and experience a class, the better they learn. With patented tegrity "search anything" technology, students instantly recall key class moments for replay online, or on iPods and mobile devices. tegrity is based in Santa Clara, California with regional offices throughout the United States. For more information, visit http://www.tegrity.com

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |

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