Overview

The wizarding world is safe once again. He Who Must Not be Named has finally been defeated, and the taint of dark wizardry is gone once again. But the threat remains. How can the wizarding world nurture the next generation of wizarding talent, to prevent the next dark wizard from appearing again, while also offering a top-notch onboarding experience for students of all backgrounds – wizard or muggle born alike? An improved Wizarding Onboarding eXperience (WOX) is essential to ensure wizarding schools keeps attracting the world’s finest wizards and witches.  

Introducing OwlExpress365, an innovative new digital solution from House Elves Limited, designed to assist wizarding schools across the globe to identify, nurture and onboard new students. Infusing the latest innovations from a low-code and artificial intelligence standpoint, our end-to-end solution is designed to benefit everyone involved as part of onboarding new wizards to your wizarding school – from initial identification, through to invitation and collating all required information to ensure students are ready and enthused to start at your school. Deliver an exceptional experience to your teachers, students and parents, whilst ensuring necessary compliance against dark magic regulations and documentation requirements for each new student. Contact our friendly House Elf developers today to find out more! 

Key Features

Mystical Student Segmentation with Microsoft Fabric: 

• The Sorting Hat 2.0: Utilize Microsoft Fabric to tap into enchanted external data sources, segmenting students based on magical abilities, and unique traits with the accuracy of the Sorting Hat.
• The Pensieve Hub: Import segmented student data into Dataverse via Fabric, creating a central Pensieve for all student information, allowing for easy access and management. 
• Effortless Administration: Enable Hogwarts administrators to manage student records with the flick of a wand, keeping everything magically up-to-date. 

Automated Enchanted Communication: 

• Enchanted Communication: Deliver personalized and spellbinding communication strategies that captivate each student’s heart and mind, utlising the Owl network and more modern, more scalable technical solutions such as LinkMobility’s SMS solution and Oneflow to gather contracts from potential students parents. 
• Owl tracker: Utilising Signal R to track the location of your owl messages in real-time, available for students and administrators in a visual map. 

Student Portal – OwlExpress App: 

• Secret Passcode Entry: Each student receives a unique magical passcode to log into the OwlExpress app, guaranteeing secure access as if opening a secret door. 
• Magical Onboarding Portal (MOP): Crafted as an Azure Static Web App, the portal offers a smooth, scalable, and secure user experience, akin to walking through Diagon Alley. 
• Ask Hermoine: Potential students and parents will always ask questions, and who better to answer them than our Professor Hermonie Weasley, providing her knowledge by a Copilot enabled chatbot via the web portal 
• Profile Enchantment: Students can complete and update their profiles within the portal, adding personal touches to their Hogwarts story. 

Technology Stack

• Microsoft Fabric: For advanced, magical data segmentation and spellbinding analytics. 
• Dataverse: For robust, arcane data management and storage. 
• Microsoft Power Apps: Using Model-Driven Apps as the base application that embed Custom Pages and Power BI for dynamic data interaction and great usability for the users. 
• Power Apps Component Framework: Using PCF to embed Power BI in Power Apps with custom actions and bi-directional direct integration into Dataverse 
• Azure Static Web Apps: For hosting the OwlExpress app, ensuring scalability and security. 
• ISV Components: Resco PCFs component to enhance Power Apps usability, LINK Mobility for sending out SMS, Oneflow to send out and get signature on Parent Permissions.
• Communication Channels: Integration with enchanted SMS and email services for areas beyond the reach of owls. 

Key Personas 

Teachers: The lifeblood of any wizarding school, they will have a huge say not only in helping to identify the next generation of wizards, but also in ensuring that their students are well catered for and enthused about their upcoming lessons. Using our solution, teachers can benefit as follows: 

• Login and review key data relating to prospective students, including their characteristics and magical incident history 
• Segment and group prospective student data together for further analysis 
• Leverage AI infused analytics that can identify potentially problematic wizards. 

Admins: Identifying prospective students is one thing, but ensure that all required compliance processes are completed, and to ensure this is done in a streamlined way. Our solution can benefit school admins as follows: 

• Prepare and submit parental consent documentation and other important compliance documents 
• Handle any student queries not answered sufficiently by “Ask Hermoine”
• Streamline the communication process using wizards preferred channels, including traditional and digital sources. 

Parents: Sending your child off to wizarding school for the first time can be scary, even more so for muggle parents. Our solution helps to keep parents informed at every stage of the process, as well as offering the following benefits: 

• Auto-creation of all required consent and informational documents, that can be reviewed and signed accordingly. 
• Answer any common questions using our “Ask Hermoine”. 
• Understand the reasons why the parents’ child has been selected or accepted/rejected into the school. 

Students: Joining a wizarding school is an exciting time for any young wizard, but there is a lot of information to take in. Using our solutions, students will benefit from: 

• Constant communication throughout the process, using their preferred channel. Students will know exactly what they need to do, and when, to ensure a successful onboarding to the school. 
• Additional nurturing activities will be triggered automatically, in particular for very promising students
• All the knowledge from our “Ask Hermoine” chatbot, to answer any common questions. 

Conclusion:

OwlExpress365 is poised to revolutionize the way your wizarding school manages its student life cycle, blending the timeless charm of the wizarding world with the cutting-edge efficiency of Microsoft technology. Whether through an owl, an enchanted SMS, or a mystic email, students will always stay connected and engaged, ensuring their journey at your school is as magical and thrilling as it is memorable. 

Brought to you by Team Pass me a sock, your mythical, magical partner to enable your wizardry students.

About our Team: Our team’s name is a sightly cheeky nod to the second book, where Dobby is freed by Lucius Malfoy by a strategically planted sock by Harry. We are a passionate group of MVPs from across Europe, who are excited to be attending their very first ACDC!