Custodial inspection software for universities
Our higher education facilities management app helps improve quality everywhere on campus, from classrooms and flagship buildings to housing, dining, and grounds.
Powering inspections and quality quality control at top-notch universities
OrangeQC is helping write the book on custodial operations for educational facilities! Look for our chapter on inspection methodologies and strategies in the newest edition of APPA’s Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Custodial.
Our software and app are ready for every campus team
We’ve worked with higher education facilities management teams around the world to create solutions that work for the unique demands of campus environments. Our custodial inspection app for colleges and universities is easy to customize for custodial, maintenance, dorms, dining, and other campus facilities. Add APPA ratings, photos, GPS, timestamps, and more.
1. University facilities management software
Your team is everywhere on campus. They need university management software that can keep up. Seamless offline performance with automatic synching means no more losing data or access to inspections in the field.2. Campus groundskeeping technology
No more searching for a phone signal out in the field. Our campus groundskeeping software is optimized for offline performance to make fields and grounds inspections seamless. GPS tagging, location-identified photos, and corrective actions marked on maps help pinpoint groundskeeping issues anywhere on campus.3. Student housing inspections app
Stay on top of regular service—and ahead of seasonal shifts. Our student housing inspections software keeps everything in one place: dorm move-in and move-outs, seasonal and mid-term inspections, building-specific checklists, routine quality control, and more. Real-time updates and progress tracking reveal your student housing team’s performance at a glance.4. Food safety software for college dining
Customizable mobile inspections work for any aspect of university dining and catering, from kitchen cleaning inspections to serving regulations to food safety inspection checklists. Maintain rigorous safety and compliance standards by scheduling inspections, tracking compliance, and notifying all the right people when there’s a problem with our dining and food safety inspection software.Perform university cleaning inspections in the field and on the go
University custodial teams serve huge areas with limited resources. The last thing they need is to keep track of dozens of paper forms, or to waste time getting overly complicated college software to work.
Custodial inspection software for higher education needs to be simple to use from start to finish. With OrangeQC, supervisors can snap photos, rate areas with a tap, tag the location of deficiencies, and loop in the right people with the push of a button.
OrangeQC’s custodial inspection software for colleges and universities replaces old-fashioned clipboards and complicated software, empowering your custodial team to take photos, quickly rate areas, and track issues until they’re resolved. Track classroom readiness based on the needs of your organization.
Know when there’s a problem in restrooms and other high-traffic campus areas by allowing students and staff to submit issues via email. Maintain dormitories with forms personalized for housing, dining, move-in and move-out room inspections, and more.
Inspection forms and templates for colleges and universities
Use built-in industry best practices from APPA and ISSA
Customize your inspection forms to track cleaning, disinfection, and safety. Need help getting started? Our university facilities inspection software comes bundled with APPA inspection form templates and best practices already built in. We’ve partnered with APPA and ISSA 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 user-friendly forms allow campus, dining, and student housing inspectors to pinpoint locations in large spaces with GPS tagging, and add digital signatures and timestamps.
“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
Keep your student facilities and housing management informed
Our software pinpoints facilities, groundskeeping, and housekeeping issues anywhere on university campuses of every size.
Every college organization is different. That’s why our university software tools are flexible for use by different departments and areas—and scalable for campuses of any size. OrangeQC is used by small colleges, huge multi-city universities, and more.
“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
Track service quality with custom reporting and analytics
Measure success with easy-to-read dashboards and professional reports
Improve campus cleaning and safety 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 higher ed organization’s progress toward your goal.
- See overall team performance at a glance with big-picture dashboards.
- Drill down into specific areas of campus, dorm buildings, or area types.
- Export data to other formats, including Excel and PDF, to share with other stakeholders or produce customized reports.
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.
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See for yourself how easy it is to set up your software for colleges and get inspecting.
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