We’ve worked with educational teams around the world to create solutions that work for the unique demands of school environments. Our janitorial inspection and work order tools are easy to customize for educational facilities with APPA ratings, photos, and more.
OrangeQC’s campus-friendly features allow teams to:
Every educational organization is different. That’s why our tools are flexible for use by different departments and areas—and scalable for campuses of any size. OrangeQC is used in K-12 classrooms, by small colleges, throughout huge multi-city universities, and more.
OrangeQC is helping write the book on custodial operations for educational facilities! Look out for a chapter on inspection methodologies and strategies in the upcoming edition of APPA’s Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Custodial.
OrangeQC replaces old-fashioned clipboards and complicated software, empowering your team to take photos, quickly rate areas, and track deficiencies until they’re resolved. Track classroom readiness based on the needs of your organization. Stay on top of conditions in restrooms and other high-traffic areas by allowing students and staff to submit issues via email. Maintain dormitories with forms personalized for housing, dining, move-in and move-out audits, and more.
Our user-friendly forms allow inspectors to:
“As a unit, we are constantly amazed by the power and simplicity of OrangeQC.
I personally wanted to say that because we keep finding new things that it can
do. I wish other app makers could be as collaborative and supportive as you
have been in working with us. OrangeQC really has become an incredible tool
and resource for us.”
Alan Slinkard
University of Colorado – Boulder
Customize your inspection forms to track cleaning, disinfection, and safety. Need help getting started? OrangeQC comes bundled with APPA inspection form templates and ISSA best practices already built in. We’ve partnered with APPA to embed their recommended forms right into the system, where teams can use them as-is or modify them to fit unique SLAs or campus requirements.
“Our friends in the facilities management department will routinely tell us that our space is some of the best managed space on campus because of the awareness that we’re able to provide them, and the knowledge that they’ll be receiving feedback on a daily basis. It really helps them prioritize work, identify trends, improve training, and adjust staffing.”
Dave Crane
Director of the Office of Classroom Management, University of Minnesota
Improve operations through powerful reporting that condenses all the data and puts it at your fingertips. Now you can define quality control processes and measure your organization’s progress toward your goal.
Northwestern University residential services team used real inspection data to shape their staffing levels—and gather evidence to share with university administration for the budget they needed.
There’s nothing like a good success story — and the University of Minnesota’s Office of Classroom Management has an amazing one. The quality control data they’ve tracked over the years dramatically illustrates their team’s triumph. (So do the before-and-after photos!) Because their student team uses OrangeQC on campus, we got
Alan Slinkard is a Facilities Management project specialist at the University of Colorado Boulder. He’s also a former Microsoft and Apple employee who brings a tech-savvy edge to his work. He’s a part of a team that’s open to new ideas like translation earbuds for non-English-speaking staff. The Facilities Management
Jeff Gilkey is an industry veteran. He’s the Manager of Custodial & Safety Services at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he started nearly 14 years ago; before that, he was a housekeeping manager in the healthcare field. During that time, he’s seen a lot of change. “For years, I just
This is the million-dollar question among those who use APPA’s levels of clean scoring system. Teams who use APPA scores want to know which scores map to which percentages — and how to convert between the two. The short (and sometimes frustrating) answer is: There is no official answer. You
Universities and educational institutions around the world use OrangeQC to create spaces where students can thrive.
