There’s now a different take on the campus safety app in the form of Grooop, a student-developed app out of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, that’s leveraging messaging and friends groups to ensure student safety.

Pittsburgh’s Penn Hills School District is stepping up its campus security efforts with the installation of a new Raptor visitor management system. The system will help boost campus security by identifying and badging visitors to district campuses.

For university personnel, in particular campus IT, summer break represents the ideal testing ground for new opportunities and system upgrades. In a recent piece for EdScoop, Splunk’s VP of Public Sector, Kevin Davis, lays out his top three university IT projects that are perfect to tackle during the summer.

Biometric identification solutions provider, FST Biometrics, has installed its In Motion Identification (IMID) system at England’s Wellington College to provide secure access and an enhanced customer experience for students and members of the Wellington Health & Fitness Club.

Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School returned to campus from spring break to find that school officials were busy during the week layover. Students returned to campus to find stronger security protocols in place following the shooting that occurred at the Parkland, Fla. high school in February.

A new system is being tested at schools in Kolkata, India that leverage Wi-Fi, Bluetooth beacons and GPS functionality to track the movement of students while on campus. The reason for the initiative is to better ensure student safety while on school premises.

BadgePass has integrated its enterprise campus card commerce system, TotalCard, with LENSEC’s video surveillance software, Perspective VMS. The integration between the two systems will enable campus users to benefit from LENSEC’s suite of surveillance capabilities from within the TotalCard admin portal.