INDUSTRY CASE STUDY:
UNIVERSITIES

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Industry Challenge

College and university campuses often cover large geographic areas; sometimes even resemble small towns with the full extent of services in their vicinity (i.e., medical centers, sports complexes, residential centers, businesses); possess large financial investments in research and building new knowledge; and generate funding, employment and opportunity for the surrounding community.  Each of these institutions have a commitment to maintain systematic processes, procedures, and plans for daily operations as well as ensure the general safety and welfare of over 21 million students and millions of staff, faculty, and guests that live on or visit university campuses across the nation.  

Odysseus Solutions

Odysseus Offers a Programmatic Solution for College and University Administrators to Coordinate Program Elements.

Odysseus™ | kms

The Odysseus™|KMS provides college and university administrators with a central repository where plans and other school operational procedures and protocol can be accessed and shared by staff and key stakeholders.  The secure yet flexible virtual collaborative preparedness environment allows for the efficient development, maintenance, and update of planning doctrine.
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ODYSSEUS™ | CPM

The Odysseus™|Compliance Metric Tools are a data-driven, assessment that allows college and university administrators the ability to systematically evaluate the compliance to various governmental and industry recognized programs. 

ODYSSEUS™ | AAT

The Odysseus™ | AAT offers college and university administrators the ability to develop customized assessment tools that can be used to evaluate, assess, and understand their progress and program trends.

ODYSSEUS™ | cbt

​The Odysseus™|CBT allows for the delivery and tracking of learning across the Odysseus™ enterprise. Your programs, courses and exercises can be harmonized with your planning and other school program efforts while facilitating your strategy to deliver training and exercise content to your target audience.

Featured Best Practices

• Planning
• Training
• Exercise & Testing
• Compliance Metrics
• Participation
• Committee Management

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School Planning

The Odysseus™ | KMS gives college and university administrators an online tool dedicated to the development and maintenance of vital plans, procedures, and protocol.  Odysseus™|KMS offers administrators with the unique feature of providing standardization and flexibility in a collaborative environment.  This union greatly increases the planning capabilities by efficiently and effectively enabling university officials to coordinate the design, develop, maintain, and continually improve university preparedness efforts, operations, and programs.  

Customized Courses & Training Management

The Odysseus™|CBT plug-in provides organizations with an integrated learning management system that allows administrators to more effectively deliver and measure preparedness understanding across the Odysseus™ enterprise.  Odysseus™|CBT provides a platform to deliver and manage customized computer-based training, track course assessments, award certificates upon course completion, and in-depth reporting of learner progress and understanding. 

Simulated Exercise and Testing Scenarios

 Designed from the Odysseus™|CBT framework, the Odysseus™ Exercise Simulator incorporates cutting-edge media technology to  deliver an interactive, best practice solution to accurately test and validate your university's operational and programmatic strategies, while effectively engaging participants in important tests and exercises.   Exercise designers can build an interactive school environment, visualize operational scenarios, and experience real-world crisis decision-making. The Odysseus™ Exercise Simulator provides an easy-to-use, turnkey solution to accurately test and validate a university's operational and programmatic strategies, while engaging stakeholders and impressing the leadership of your institution.

School Compliance Assessments

Designed from the Odysseus™|AAT architecture, the Odysseus platform offers a customized college and university compliance assessments tools that is consistent with the regulatory requirements and guidelines of the Department of Education.  College and university administrators can assess their institution's compliance and integrate the results into their existing planning framework.

​Community Participation and Awareness

The Odysseus™ enterprise offers a variety of tools that can be used to efficiently engage your colleagues, student population, and neighboring public, and solicit their participation in the planning process. Customized Odysseus™|CBT interactive planning participation module allows committee members, stakeholders, and the public to learn about current programs and provide real-time feedback and input in the plan development. Customized Odysseus™|AAT survey instruments allows your faculty, staff, and student body to provide input in the planning process and inform the management strategies of your college's or university's administration. 

Committee Management

In today’s environment of fiscal efficiency, limited availability of resources, and the necessity to balance competing demands, it is imperative that the engagement of assigned work groups and key stakeholders is efficient and effective. The committee management tool within the Odysseus™|KMS will assist in documenting the planning process, provide a method of on-going committee collaboration, offer an archival repository of planning meeting minutes and information, and ensure the active participation of committee members and key stakeholders throughout the life-cycle of the planning process.