NAUgo Content Request Form

The NAUgo mobile app is designed to positively assist the NAU student experience by providing a useful, relevant tool to assist them with tasks.

You may wish to add content to NAUgo or use it as a messaging platform to reach students. Familiarize yourself with the content types below and submit the request form to have your idea considered.

A screen is a “page” within the app that presents information and offers actionable items. All new app screens must be approved by the NAUgo Steering Committee.

Will a screen suit your needs?

In order to qualify for a screen or collection of screens, the department or organization must serve a majority of the appropriate student population and meet the following criteria:

Offers transactional tools for the student, offering convenience (example: Cline Library);
Offers multiple events throughout the year; or
Offer brief information about services accompanied by actionable links (phone, website, email).

Permanent screens cannot be a replication of NAU.edu website content.

The Featured Event is typically a bundle of 2 pieces of content…

Feature Event Banner that appears on the home screen
An accompanying Feature Event Screen or Event Calendar listing

The Featured Event is intended to highlight a current event at NAU. This might include:

Specific events (Commencement) or event series (Welcome Week, Homecoming Week)
The kickoff of a longer event season (Native American Heritage month)

NAUgo with Family Weekend featured banner — 1. Example of the student home screen with a Featured Event Banner

Does my event qualify for a featured item?

Featured Events will be limited to events which are newsworthy or potentially of interest to the majority of the users in the current experience. Decisions about what to include in Featured Events rests with the Student Affairs Campus Life Communications team, aided by the following criteria:

The event(s) advertised in the Featured Event should be relevant to the broader community that is being served by the experience (examples include Welcome Week, Homecoming, Veterans Week)
The Featured Event must be relevant to the experience (we wouldn’t include an on-campus career fair in the Online experience, but might for the Flagstaff experience)

Requests that meet the criteria will be prioritized based on institutional priorities.

A push notification is a message that pops up on a mobile device. Push notifications must be enabled for the app (this is enabled by default), and the device user may disable them at any time. Therefore, it’s important that they be used sparingly and only when deemed necessary.

Example of a push notification on the phone home screen — Example of a push notification on the device home screen

Can my department send a push notification?

Push notifications are used sparingly, and all requests are reviewed by the appropriate team: Many push notifications are approved by the Student Affairs Campus Life Communications team; others are approved by Academic Affairs or the NAUgo steering committee.

If your content is not appropriate for any of the other 3 options, you may want to consider an icon link. Icons are a way to link out to external content that does not exist in the app. If approved by our Steering Committee, the NAUgo team will work with you on an icon design and it will be added to the app.

Below are some examples of app icons.

Campus DIning screen