A new app has launched to make BlueLink more accessible for students.
The app became available after the BlueLink update in early December. It is called “Ellucian Go” and it is a mobile version of the website. Instructions to log in can be found on BlueLink.
The app is available on the iTunes store and through Google Play. On Apple devices, it requires iOS 11.0 or later, according to the App Store.
Registrar Charlie Monnot said the registrar’s office was involved in the testing of the BlueLink update, but he only uses BlueLink a few times every month.
“I think it’s very much like the old site,” he said. “BlueLink itself is almost an exact copy of the old one. To me, it’s the same, with some new features that are kind of nice for the student. We don’t have the new features up yet for the faculty. That’s our next project.”
Monnot said this update hopefully will occur this spring.
He said the app is similar to the website, but has new features.
“It has a different layout for ‘my schedule,’ ‘my grades,’ ‘my account,’ and ‘bill pay,’ and ‘register for classes.’ I kind of like the ‘register for classes’ a little bit better. And then it has all the links to BlueLink, so it gives you both,” he said.
Bequer Gomez, mass communications senior, said he found the new website plain, but useful.
“I think it does what it’s supposed to do. Its looks might not be the best, it’s pretty plain and simple, which can also be helpful,” he said.
Gomez was unaware of the mobile app, though he said he would likely only use it as he needed, which wasn’t often.
Olivia White, acting sophomore, said she appreciated the effort to make the site better, but she experienced technical difficulties and could not access it on her computer, though campus tech offered help on Facebook.
White said she uses BlueLink every day because of work. She works as a resident assistant and as the social media coordinator for First-Year Experience.
“I think that, if it was tailored to an iPhone rather than a PC, it probably would be a lot easier for me to navigate,” she said.
Simón Gómez, music theater/music composition sophomore, said he was aware of the app and had downloaded it, but he didn’t use it.
“Even when I use it for my phone, I access the PC website. I don’t use the app,” he said.
Lysa Engle, film senior, said it was difficult to adjust to the updated website due to old habits.
“I think it might just be because I was used to the old BlueLink, but I’m still vaguely confused by it,” she said. “I’m old and still set in my ways, so I don’t where anything is now.”
Monnot said students with comments or suggestions regarding BlueLink can contact the registrar’s office by email at registrar@okcu.edu or by phone number at 405-208-5298.
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