ChatBot

Higher Ed’s Most Powerful Assistant

Higher ed’s most powerful assistant.

Delivering top-notch student support remains pivotal in today’s competitive higher education landscape. And keeping up with support technology while managing a tight budget…well…easier said than done.

Take student support and success to the next level with Pathify’s chatbot, an insanely powerful (and simple) addition to institutional tech stacks. Chatbot delivers lightning-fast, accurate responses by harnessing the vast network of integrations across the Engagement Hub — offering ultra-personalized experiences for every authenticated user.

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Chatbot Feature Snapshot

Integrations

Connect seamlessly with other systems — like the SIS and LMS — to surface student balances, GPA or grades, schedules and more.

Platform Parity

Just as the Engagement Hub displays information in widgets, the chatbot matches this functionality when delivering information to users.

Continuous Conversation

Chatbot maintains conversation history across different portal sections, allowing users to resume chats without losing context.

Custom Branding

Tailor the bot’s appearance to align with portal branding, including customizing button styles, welcome messages, avatar and name.

Analytics

Drill down into bot usage, including the number of conversations, active users, messages sent and common keywords, with options to sort, filter and download data for in-depth analysis.

User Roles & Authentication

Deliver deeply personalised experiences based on multi-layered roles, pulled from systems like the SIS or configured in-platform.

Content Management

Surface (or suppress) certain resources, information or pages. Admins have full control over what content the bot crawls.

Scalable Support

As an institution’s always-available greeter, let the bot handle FAQs or one-off student questions —enabling lean teams and tight budgets to do more with less.

Verified Information

Chatbot surfaces three response types — sourced, verified and open, ensuring accuracy and reliability.

“Pathify gave us a lot of control — being able to take multiple systems and data and put it all in one place. We wanted a one-stop shop. We also felt Pathify was going to be a true partner with us.”

Adam Janecke, IT Business Analyst, University of Northwestern-St. Paul

“It was important for us to have a tool that simplified student access to different systems. Pathify quickly enabled that capability.”

Rob Henderson, Chief Technology Officer & Vice President for Technology, University of the Pacific

“When students can’t find what they need, it affects their success. It can affect the student graduating if they don’t know how to connect with financial aid or how to connect with an instructor. That communication and support is so student-centered with Pathify.”

Tara Bias, TRiO Student Development Specialist, Lassen College

“With Pathify, we’ve partnered to connect to other critical systems that students need access to so we can drive them to one place.”

Bret Ingerman, Vice President of IT at Tallahassee Community College

“Pathify is a great partner — they helped consolidate a number of engagement systems into one platform. We replaced our legacy chatbot with Pathify — saving some budget along the way.”

Ryan Adkins, Cloud Application Administrator, Alabama A&M University

Frequently Asked Questions

A chatbot aligns perfectly with Pathify’s mission to simplify the college experience, positioned to surface and nudge users toward relevant information while generating fast, reliable and verifiable responses to student questions.

Pathify’s chatbot obtains verified answers by directly accessing institutional systems (like the SIS or LMS), avoiding the potential inaccuracies of GPT models that might generate plausible, unverified responses. Our chatbot focuses solely on institutional content, ensuring data confidentiality and implementing safeguards to prevent fabricated answers.

Additionally, Pathify is working closely with Google, leveraging the Vertex AI platform. Pathify chose to partner with Google largely because it shares Pathify’s goal of using responsible AI.

Pathify’s bot is backed by the stable release of the latest Google models and remains in its original, balanced state without additional training on customer or Pathify-specific data. Pathify’s chabot focuses on providing context on a per-question basis to maintain the bot’s broad capability of answering a wide range of inquiries.

This approach ensures the chatbot remains versatile and effective. In short, the bot relies on context management to achieve response relevance.

The bot will not store or share any sensitive information pertaining to an institution’s constituents or systems. Pathify’s bot guarantees user data privacy by adhering to strict data protection protocols and never sharing information with third-party entities like Google, ensuring all data remains confidential and secure.

The bot will use explicitly targeted and whitelisted websites as declared in the Admin Center — the same content which shows up in Pathify’s search bar as External Resources.

The chatbot also searches and retrieves information from FAQs, events and calendars, tools, pages and other portal content, dynamically crawling these resources to provide accurate responses. The chatbot also searches across connected providers, including the Student Information System (SIS) and Learning Management System (LMS).

Under the current architecture, the bot will not go to the internet to perform a live search while evaluating a query.

Pathify’s chatbot displays two distinct verification icons — one indicates the answer is based on provided data sources (Pages, FAQs, external sources) but may still be subject to inaccuracy while the other confirms the information is sourced directly from connected, verifiable sources (SIS, LMS).

The chatbot can be configured with a profile picture, name and welcome message. It will also pick up an institution’s branding and light/dark mode preference from the authenticated individual.

Institutions can further customize the chatbot’s behavior to match their specific needs and content structure. Within the Admin Center, Admins may adjust how the chatbot responds to different inquiries with various settings. This interface allows Admins to see which content sources are considered and how they influence the chatbot’s response.

The bot connects with Pathify’s fast-growing list of integrations with higher ed’s most popular systems to display information like balances, holds, grades or GPA, schedules, assignments and more. Pathify also provides access to Flow so institutions can easily connect the bot with information housed in any system.

Chatbot data is sortable by time sequence, role and is downloadable for deeper analysis. The chatbot offers real-time insights into user interactions, including:

Number of conversations
Active users
Number of messages sent
Average messages per conversation
Verified answers
Failed answers
Most used keywords
Active days
Returning users

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