Modern Campus Explore
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What is Modern Campus Explore
Modern Campus Explore is a higher-education course and program catalog and curriculum discovery platform used to publish and search academic offerings. It supports prospective and current students, advisors, and registrars by providing a web-based catalog experience with structured program, course, and requirement information. The product is typically used to improve catalog usability, standardize academic content, and integrate catalog data into institutional websites and related student systems.
Student-friendly catalog discovery
Explore focuses on making courses and programs easier to find and understand through a searchable, web-based catalog experience. This can reduce reliance on static PDFs and improve navigation across programs, courses, and academic policies. For institutions, it provides a consistent presentation layer for academic offerings that can be embedded into public-facing sites. It fits well when the primary need is discovery and publishing rather than advising case management.
Structured academic content model
The platform organizes catalog information into structured entities (for example, programs, courses, and related requirements) rather than unstructured web pages. This structure supports consistent governance of catalog content across departments and reduces formatting variability. It also helps downstream reuse of catalog data for web pages and integrations. Compared with broader student success suites, this specialization can simplify catalog operations.
Supports institutional web publishing
Explore is designed to publish academic catalogs in a format suitable for institutional websites and stakeholder access. It can help central teams manage updates and present a single source of truth for catalog content. This is useful for institutions that need frequent catalog updates without rebuilding web pages. It complements, rather than replaces, systems of record used for registration and student records.
Not a full advising suite
Explore is primarily a catalog and academic offering discovery tool, not an end-to-end academic advising or student success platform. Institutions typically still need separate tools for appointment scheduling, case notes, early alerts, and coordinated care workflows. If the main objective is proactive advising and intervention management, additional products are usually required. This can increase overall solution complexity.
Integration work may be required
To keep catalog content aligned with student information systems and other campus platforms, institutions often need integrations and data governance processes. The effort varies based on the existing SIS/CRM ecosystem and how course/program data is maintained. Implementation may require coordination across registrar, academic departments, and web teams. Organizations with limited technical resources may need vendor or partner support.
Limited analytics for engagement
While the product supports catalog discovery, it is not typically positioned as a comprehensive engagement analytics or retention analytics solution. Institutions seeking advanced student journey analytics, predictive risk scoring, or intervention outcome tracking generally use separate student success tools. Reporting may focus more on catalog content and usage than on advising outcomes. This can be a gap for institutions prioritizing retention-focused measurement.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Custom / Quote (Modern Campus Explore — part of the Connected Curriculum suite) | Custom pricing — contact Modern Campus / Request a demo | Explore (Career & Program Explorer) is delivered as part of Modern Campus Connected Curriculum (DIGARC products: Acalog, Curriculog, Section, Register, Explore). Enterprise implementation, integrations with SIS and Modern Campus products; pricing is quote-based and not published on the vendor site. |
Seller details
Modern Campus, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2005
Private
https://moderncampus.com/
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