Ellucian’s Year in Review: Top 5 Webinars of 2024

We believe in the transformative power of edtech to drive student success. Our webinars serve as a dynamic forum to share technological innovations and implementation expertise, and institutions showcase their experiences and insights. Together, we solve challenges and shape the future of higher education.

What happens when you bring together Ellucian's finest product specialists, groundbreaking industry voices, and accomplished campus leaders? In 2024, over 18,000 higher education professionals joined us to find out, making our webinars a resounding success. These five sessions emerged as the year's most impactful.

1. Intelligent Processes Release Webinar – Streamline Operations and Boost Productivity

Our Intelligent Processes Release webinar discussed how institutions can overcome the friction caused by manual processes and approvals, often hindering staff from focusing on student success. We introduced the latest update to Ellucian Intelligent Processes, showcasing its new user-friendly, no-code workflow. The update enables users to create forms, automate tasks, and build workflow approvals, helping streamline cross-departmental operations.

We also highlighted how institutions can deliver relevant information directly to constituents' dashboards, reducing email clutter and improving employee productivity. Examples like reviewing academic policies and completing mandatory training illustrated how Intelligent Processes empowers teams to work smarter.

Speakers

Ellen Mayes
Director, Strategic Programs, Ellucian

Sarth Desai
Group Product Manager, Ellucian

Natalia Salgado
Product Manager, Ellucian

2. Ellucian Experience: Transforming Institutions through Personalized Action Driven Dashboards

Our second webinar, Transforming Institutions through Personalized Action Driven Dashboards explored Ellucian Experience—a personalized, secure hub that delivers timely, actionable information for every user, from presidents to faculty to students. We discussed how Experience consolidates data from both Ellucian and non-Ellucian applications, providing users with a single, convenient login for tasks, alerts, updates, and key information.

Representatives from Albany State University (ASU), alongside Ellucian product experts, shared how ASU has redefined the faculty, staff, and student experience using a cutting-edge dashboard and command center powered by Ellucian Experience. The discussion highlighted how ASU keeps students seamlessly informed and engaged through action-driven updates and offered practical insights drawn from ASU’s success story with Ellucian Experience.

Speakers

Sekar Ponnar, Featured Speaker
Director of Applications, Albany State University

Kenyatta M Johnson
VP, Enrollment Management and Student Success, Albany State University

Brian Geraghty
Principal Solutions Consultant, Ellucian

Jorge Arthur
Product Manager, Ellucian

3. Top Three Data Trends Shaping Student Success

Our third most highly attended webinar, Top Three Data Trends Shaping Student Success, reflected how 2024 marked the year of data exploration with higher ed institutions driving data innovations—from early AI adoption to centralized data departments—while navigating challenges and concerns.

We explored three key student analytics trends that are gaining momentum for 2025 and shared practical examples of how institutions are embracing these trends and overcoming data obstacles. Key discussions included:

• Examining new learner needs and the tools best suited to support them.
• Leveraging and integrating AI tools focused on students and staff.
• Empowering staff to take the lead in reporting and analytics.
• Connecting student analytics trends to the broader higher education ecosystem.

The session emphasized how the data revolution in higher education is underway and underscored the need for institutions to take action now to empower learner success for years to come.

Speakers

Joe Sallustio
VP, Industry Engagement, Ellucian

Stephen Pelc
Sr. Dir., Product Management, Ellucian

4. How to Organize for Your Ellucian Experience Go-Live in One Month

The 30-Day Go Live Experience webinar shared how Ellucian's Professional Services team leverages over 50 years of experience to support institutions through solution implementation and digital transformation. We walked through our trusted project plans and best practices for organizing teams to ensure a successful implementation and go-live of Ellucian Experience.

We highlighted how, with our support, customers have launched their project plans and achieved success in as little as one month. The session detailed our project plan template and outlined the key steps needed to deliver a persona-driven experience that supports student success and drives positive faculty outcomes.

Speakers

Ryan Meritt
Director of Professional Services, Ellucian

5. How to Design Persona-Driven Content Layouts in Ellucian Experience

Our informative How to Design Your Content Layout for Experience webinar discussed how today’s tech-savvy students bring high expectations for digital experiences to campus and how every online interaction with your institution leaves a lasting impression.

We showcased how Ellucian Experience enables institutions to create a centralized information hub for every user—from administrators to students—through customizable, persona-driven dashboards tailored to meet unique institutional needs.

Jennifer Morrow, leader of our Ellucian Experience UX design team, shared strategies to optimize content layouts within Experience. She highlighted Ellucian’s resources, including new content categories and card templates, and provided insights drawn from her work with hundreds of institutions.

The session offered practical approaches to designing user-driven content layouts that avoid clutter while enhancing the overall user experience.

Speakers

Jennifer Morrow
Experience Design Manager, Ellucian

Are you ready to rethink and reimagine what's possible in higher education? Ellucian certainly is! Together, we can help institutions build a stronger future and continually evolve to support students best.

We encourage you to explore our library of live and on-demand webinars showcasing products, sharing customer best practices, and exploring new strategies for success. Do you have questions? Click to Contact Us or Schedule a Live Demo today.