Student Housing Overview
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Information and features vary according to the roles to which you belong and the permissions associated with those roles. For more information, contact your module manager or your campus support team.
J1 Web Student Housing provides tools to set up and manage student housing efficiently. From setting up the applications that students use to apply for housing, to managing lottery numbers for room selection, J1 Web gives you powerful tools to help you accomplish your goals.
Student Housing requires some setup in J1 Web and some in Campus Portal. The first step to setting up student housing is to create a session. The session will serve as a container for all the other features, such as staff assignment zones, room assignments, and more. Your housing process can be set up completely before broadcasting for a streamlined, automated process, or you can tailor the features that you want to use and manually tweak all facets, even while the session is in progress. You can allow students to choose roommates and rooms, or you can manually assign both. Here is an example of the typical workflow for setting up a housing process.
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Aisha has 300 returning students to get situated for the upcoming year. About half of them will live on campus, and the other half will commute. She wants to set the housing process up and let it run automatically, with a minimum of manual intervention. After creating applicant groups for residents and commuters, she will set up the application, roommate request, and room selection features. This allows students to submit the application online through the campus portal, choose their roommates, and select a room. She will set the features up with a day in between each step of the process. Once she inputs the information for each feature, each step will auto-publish when it's time, leaving Aisha free to spend time planning the student welcome reception.
Devin works with a small group of students who have been designated at-risk. He prefers a more hands-on approach to housing assignments and will meet with each student to manually submit their application and select a room. It's a little more work, but provides valuable one-on-one time with the students, and ensures they are situated appropriately.