Talk to us
Bring the email from the student who transferred out
There is no form on this site, no trial to start and nothing to buy. What there is, is a conversation, and the most useful thing you can bring is a request you were not sure how to answer.
Bring one of these
The request you were not sure how to answer. Somebody who left asking what you hold, or asking you to take something down. How long did it take, who decided, and could you do it again next week?
Where your recruitment images actually come from. If any of them came out of a card system or an event nobody was asked about, that is worth establishing before anything else. It is common and it is fixable.
Your September turnover. Two of your three people are students and they change. Tell us what your handover looks like, because a system that depends on institutional memory will not survive it.
The event you photograph most. Usually orientation. Walking through one real week is worth more than any feature list.
Three things we will say before you ask
One. Verifying that a request came from the person it claims to be from is your process, not ours. We can act on a decision; we cannot tell you the person asking is who they say.
Two. A withdrawal does not recall printed material already in circulation. Nothing does, and any vendor implying otherwise is worth a second look.
Three. There is nothing to buy. Live payment is not turned on, and the platform is free to the institution, so there is no procurement conversation to have.
What we would need, if it goes further
Your roster, and how quickly it changes. Mid-year arrivals, stop-outs and transfers are the normal case here, and a system reading a snapshot rather than the live list is wrong by week six.
What you currently tell students about photographs. Whatever that is, in whatever document. It is usually a paragraph nobody has revisited in years, and reading it is frequently the most useful twenty minutes of the whole process.
Whoever handles a records request. Not necessarily your office. Imagery requests from former students tend to land wherever the institution’s general contact address goes, and knowing where that is matters more than any feature.
What a second conversation usually is
Not a demonstration. A working session against a copy of your own roster and one real event, because that is the only way to find out whether the thing survives your week rather than ours.
The two questions it answers are unglamorous and they are the ones that decide it. Can a student worker who started on Monday be shown this on Tuesday and not do damage on Wednesday? And when a request arrives from somebody who left in 2023, how many minutes does it take to answer properly?
If either answer is bad, we would rather know it in a session than after you have told your director this is the plan. We have no interest in an institution adopting something that quietly gets abandoned by November, and a two-year college is a small enough world that it would not stay quiet.
About the conversation itself
Is there a trial?
Not a self-serve one. Setting this up against a live roster is work rather than a signup, and a demonstration against invented data would tell you nothing about the thing that actually matters here, which is how it behaves for somebody who has already left.
Can our student workers be in the conversation?
They should be, from the second conversation. They are the people who will use it and they are adults with a job, not students to be supervised. They will also tell you within ten minutes whether it survives a September handover.
We have almost no budget. Is this a waste of time?
The platform is free to the institution and there is nothing to buy, so budget is not the constraint. Your constraint is staff time, and we would rather talk honestly about how much setup costs you in hours than pretend it is nothing.
Do we have to decide anything at the end?
Only whether there is a second conversation. There is no purchase at the end of this and no procurement step to prepare for.
Where it happens
Through the platform’s own front door at homeroom.software, where a person at Stanley Studios picks it up. This site collects nothing from you: no form, no address to hand over before you can read anything.
What follows is a conversation rather than a sequence, and there is nothing to buy at the end of it. That is the actual state of the product, not a soft close.