Who We Are

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Wayne, NJ, ConnectYard specializes in helping institutions effectively leverage the power of social and mobile media to improve the educational experience by extending the learning environment outside of the classroom into where students live and socialize - online. The Company's Web 2.0 solutions are built upon a foundation of proven success and customer-driven innovation with a high focus on enhancing learning and building community amongst students.

What We Do

ConnectYard leverages popular social networking sites, like Facebook and Twitter, and pervasive mobile technologies, like text messaging, to better connect students and instructors, build a feeling of community and provide enhanced academic support - all of which positively affect a student's persistence through graduation. Our social learning service improves the educational experience by:

• Providing additional academic support for specific courses through asynchronous and peer learning - making your learning management system more social, interactive and engaging;
• Strengthening and promoting academic discussions in a course by making it easier for students to connect with each other as well as instructors; and
• Leveraging the communication technology of choice, including Facebook, Twitter, text messaging and email to communicate without the need for "friending", "following" and "texting" students directly.

Our Team

The experience, deep expertise and professionalism of our team has been instrumental to ConnectYard's success. By offering dedicated customer attention, along with highly regarded, proven technology, we create an exceptional experience for our clients. Our employees are passionate and innovative about what they do, and it reflects in the quality of our products and services!

Our Mission

We focus on a single mission: Helping institutions leverage social and mobile technology to improve the educational experience, which serves to improve student retention and graduation rates. The Company believes that its solutions will ultimately transform the way students learn both in and out of the classroom.