Learning support systems created by education specialists
There can be no shortcuts in education. Today’s schools, colleges and universities have to provide agile, personalised learning, with limited budgets and closer regulation than ever before. Canon has a long experience of supporting educational establishments, teachers and students with services and technology that enable learning experiences fit for a fast-moving, mobile and connected world.
We have helped schools streamline their admission and enrolment processes, simplifying data capture and reducing errors. Our mobile services, such as mobile printing, also help to extend essential services to students and teachers beyond the walls of schools and colleges.
Our solutions and services
We work with educational institutions across Europe, as well as many service providers to the education sector.
This experience has shown us that the essential communication, process management, printing and information capture needs of schools, colleges and universities remain constant.
Similarly, the challenges of cost control, service quality and providing outstanding student experiences are universal.
This is why so many educational establishments and service providers turn to us for help with the services, systems and processes that form the foundations of successful education provision.
Information sharing
Securing and keeping track of the vast pool of documents, images and data generated within the education sector are time-consuming but vital processes. Canon solutions and services allow controlled and monitored access for authorised users, including third parties such as regulators or examination boards, while maintaining strict version control and preventing unauthorised intrusion. We can eliminate wasteful processes and duplication and speed up collaboration and sharing.
Student case fulfilment
Scan and capture technology can save hours of manual processing for enrolments and admissions, providing real-time access to important information. Canon solutions and services are highly flexible, even streamlining additional processes for international or post-graduate students, or students with specials needs. Data capture and verification can be automated, speeding up responsiveness to students.
Compliance management
Canon’s compliance management includes security and archiving solutions and services, as well as access controls for sensitive data such as student records. You need quick retrieval and detailed audit trailing, without having to spend wasteful hours on routine record keeping. We can also extend the control and protection out into the mobile world, with secure mobile printing to prevent hard copies straying into the wrong hands.
Internal communications
Distributing essential digital and printed information internally can be made easier and less costly with the right blend of printing and scanning services. Everyone in the school or on campus works under pressure, so any breakdown or delay in communication can be disproportionately disruptive. Canon solutions and services can automate and digitise many of the routine processes of communication, while ensuring print services are as cost-efficient as possible.
External communications
Parents, regulators, governors, partner schools; you need effortless and effective communication with all the stakeholders associated with your organisation. As with your internal communications, Canon’s printing, automation and digitisation solutions and services can take away much of the laborious work and extra cost involved in ensuring the right information reaches the right people, in the right format, at the right time. Unfortunately, there is no process known to humankind for ensuring students actually give printed documents to their parents when they get home.
Cost and energy management
Printing costs can be a significant overhead for educational institutions, as well as placing extra demands on your IT and administrative departments, but its true impact can often be difficult to define. Canon’s Managed Print Services can take away all the routine management and servicing associated with your printing requirements, while making them fully accountable. We’ll ensure you are spending no more than is absolutely necessary and that your print services are sustainable and environmentally responsible.
Finance and procurement management
Canon’s end-to-end workflow automation solutions and services can ensure you avoid late payment penalties, and take full advantage of any discounts for early settlement. You also have much greater visibility of all departmental purchases, so you can control budgets, manage your supplier relationships easily, and make sure your organisation is achieving best value.
Central print and personalisation
The education sector inevitably generates vast amounts of printed matter, from glossy prospectuses to alumni communications and internal course material, much of which needs to be personalised. We’ll help you meet the increasing demand for tailored information by improving the quality and impact of your printed communications through more intelligent use of your different data sources, while reducing the cost.