When your campus is unreachable, Hijack remains open for business
Open days are one of the best sales opportunities for universities and colleges. But campus visits represent a serious investment for prospective students. Recent updates on COVID-19 will only deter prospective students further. When your campus is unreachable, how do you convince prospects that your university is the right choice? Hijack offers the solution
Rethinking the online events landscape
The problem with other online open day systems is they live on a separate domain. Users don’t want to go to a microsite – they’re already on your site. Hijack floats content as a second layer on top of your website.
A Javascript snippet, deployable through Google Tag Manager allows Hijack to appear on any page of your site.
Core Features
Chances are, you already have all the content required to set up effective online events. Hijack, brings together your content, augmenting it with an enviable functionality set. Hijack is highly flexible. Features can be toggled on and off to suit the content you have available.
Auto-open
Hijack lives on your website and users can access it with a simple click of a button. Additionally, Hijack comes with a feature called Auto-open. By appending a URL with an extra piece of text, Hijack will open automatically. Perfect for social, email, and other digital campaigns.
360 Player
Hijack’s 360 player facilitates both photos and videos. It’s a fantastic way to show off a space, campus or facility. It even enables a new format for talking-heads videos. Allowing users to engage in new ways with academic presentations.
Live Q&A
Moderated live chat, enables you to engage with users in a way that keeps your brand image protected. Hijack stops nasty messages and spam-bots in their tracks via an approve/reject system. Messages are only ever published when you reply to them.
Courses
Hijack’s courses module creates a connection with your flagship website content. Course excerpts act as teasers for relevant courses and create meaningful exit points.
People
Hijack’s People tab promotes testimonials, alumni success stories, and lecturer profiles. Core functionality can be extended with the Unibuddy add-on. This extension supports Unibuddy embeds allowing you to feature single buddy cards. The result is a layer of social validation to your events.
Contact
The contact tab is a great way to promote a clearing hotline, your social media profiles, or even an email address for visitors to get in touch. It’s not rocket science, but it adds relevant details in an accessible place at the right time – and prospects love this level of personalisation.
RUNNING ONLINE EVENTS FOR
City, University of London: creating an interactive online celebration
City, University of London used our Hijack platform in order to create an interactive online celebration for students who’s physical Graduation had to be postponed. After the outbreak of COVID-19 towards the start of 2020, institutions have been rendered helpless…
Virtual Open Days
Re-thinking ‘online open days’ with SMILE Hijack
Go pro with additional extensions
Engage
Moderated live chat enables you to engage with users in a way that keeps your brand image protected. Stop nasty messages and spam-bots in their tracks with our approve/reject system. Messages are only ever published when you reply to them. Threaded replies are available as an upgrade package too.
Customise
Hijack facilitates engagement with your audience. But you can make it yours too. Customise colours, logos and fonts to your specification to suit your brand guidelines.
You can run unlimited experiences, with unlimited members of staff on an unlimited amount of pages.
Promote
Chat can be turned on or off at any time. When it’s off, you can use our other tools to promote your campaign or message. Show a video full screen, or create a photo gallery – or even show a series of 360 panoramas of your campus. Custom links from the system will open Hijack on click – perfect for email campaigns.
Intuitive interfaces for staff and prospects
Hijack is an easy-to-use system for both internal and external users. Hijack uses a Floating Action Button (FAB) to always remain within your prospects’ reach.
Copy/paste and drag and drop functionality, make content upload a seamless affair. No technical knowledge required.