How Campus Connect works

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   Step 1: Open Campus Connect

   Go to the Campus Connect home page. It explains both sides and has two buttons: Proceed as an institution for colleges and Proceed as an expert for professionals.

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   Step 2: Create an account or sign in

   Proceeding asks you to create an account (name, email, password) or sign in — Google works too. You come back to the side you chose.

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   Step 3: One account, one side

   An institution sees Register your institution (or an invitation to join one); an expert sees Become an expert. An account is one or the other — if you are both, use a different email for each.

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   Step 4: Find your way around

   From then on you see only your side. Open your dashboard takes you there; everything is in the bar across the top (the tabs along the bottom on a phone). In more than one institution? Switch from the menu at the top right. An institution account can found another from the account menu → Register an institution; this guide is in the same menu.

A. Build your expert page

Click Become an expert. A six-step wizard opens — you can leave and come back; each step saves.

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   Step 1: About you

   Your headline (one line on what you do), a short bio, where you work now and years of experience. Add a photo if you like. Your page gets its own web address.

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   Step 2: Expertise

   Pick the areas you know — AI, Data, Product, UX Research and so on. Colleges search by these.

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   Step 3: Offerings and pricing

   Choose the kinds of session you'll take (guest lecture, workshop, mock interview, mentorship…) and your rate for each.

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   Step 4: Availability

   Whether you're taking new work, how much notice you need, and when you prefer to teach.

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   Step 5: Mode and location

   Online, on campus, or both — and your city.

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   Step 6: Preview and submit

   See your page as a college will, then click Submit for review.

Submit is greyed out? The preview lists exactly what's missing — for example "Write a short bio" or "Pick at least one area of expertise". Fix those and the button turns on.

B. Get approved

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   Step 1: Wait for review

   Your status shows In review. An Elevexa admin reads your page.

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   Step 2: Check the result

   You get an email either way.

   • Approved: your status turns Live. Colleges can now find and invite you.
   • Sent back: the email and your Overview say what to change. Edit your page under Profile and submit again.

C. Find work

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   Step 1: Browse Opportunities

   Opportunities lists requirements colleges have posted. Filter, then open one to read the brief, the dates and the budget.

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   Step 2: Propose

   Write a short message, name your fee, and click Send proposal. The college sees it straight away and gets an email.

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   Step 3: Or wait to be invited

   Colleges can also invite you from your public page. Invitations appear under Engagements → Invitations, and you get an email.

Only Live pages can propose. While your page is a draft or in review you can browse Opportunities, but not send proposals.

A. Register your institution

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   Step 1: Fill in the details

   Click Register your institution and enter the institution name, its web address, website, city, state, and your role there (e.g. Training & Placement Officer).

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   Step 2: Create it

   Click Create institution. You are now its owner and land on your college dashboard. Institutions are active straight away — no review.

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   Step 3: Complete your profile (optional)

   Under Organization, add a description and a logo so experts know who you are.

B. Bring your team in (optional)

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   Step 1: Invite a colleague

   In Organization → Team, use Invite by email. They need a Campus Connect account with that email.

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   Step 2: They join

   Next time they open Campus Connect, the welcome page shows Join <your institution>. They accept, and they're in.

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   Step 3: Owner or member?

   Change roles or remove people under Team.

   • Owners commit money: accept offers, make counter-offers, and send invitations that name a fee.
   • Members do everything else: post requirements, message, plan sessions, decline.

C. Post a requirement

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   Step 1: Start one

   Requirements → Post a requirement.

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   Step 2: Describe what you need

   Kind of engagement, title, brief, audience, number of students, sessions and hours, mode (online or on campus), city, dates and a budget range in ₹. Save draft to finish later.

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   Step 3: Publish it

   Click Post it. It's now Open — live experts see it in their Opportunities.

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   Step 4: Manage it

   The requirement's own page lists every proposal and invitation on it, plus recommended experts. Close it when you're done, or Reopen it later.

D. Hire an expert — two ways

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   Step 1: Invite one yourself

   Find experts → filter by expertise, kind of session, rate, mode, city or whether they're taking work. Open an expert's page, pick the requirement (or none), write a message, optionally name a fee, and click Send invitation.

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   Step 2: …or answer proposals

   When an expert proposes on your requirement, it appears under Engagements → Proposals and on the requirement's page, and you get an email.

One hire per requirement. Accepting an expert marks the requirement Filled. To hire someone else for it, reopen it first.

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   Step 1: Agree the fee

   The fee "on the table" is shown at the top. The side being asked can:

   • Accept — agree to that fee (you'll confirm). The status becomes Agreed.
   • Counter — propose a different fee. Now it's the other side's turn.
   • Decline — say no.
   • The side that started can Withdraw while it's still waiting. On the college side, only an owner can accept or counter.
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   Step 2: Talk

   Use the message thread at the bottom. The other side gets an email about new messages — at most one until they've read them.

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   Step 3: Plan the sessions

   Once agreed, either side can Add a session — date, time, length, online or on campus, a link or place. The status shows Scheduled.

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   Step 4: Hold the sessions

   After each session happens, the college clicks Mark done on it.

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   Step 5: Complete it

   When every session is done, the college clicks Mark complete and confirms. The status becomes Completed and it moves to the Past tab.

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   Step 6: Review each other

   Both sides rate 1–5 ("How did it go?"), add a comment and click Save review — change it later with Update review. The college's review of the expert also appears on the expert's public page.

Plans changed? Either side can Cancel engagement after it's agreed (you'll confirm). The fee itself is invoiced offline — Campus Connect records what was agreed.

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   Step 1: Review queue

   Read each submitted expert page. Approve makes it live; Send back needs a note telling the expert what to change. The expert is emailed either way.

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   Step 2: Experts

   Every expert with their page status and account status. Suspend (you'll confirm) hides them from search and blocks their Campus Connect sign-in; Reinstate undoes it.

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   Step 3: Institutions

   The same suspend and reinstate, for colleges.

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   Step 4: Reviews

   Recent reviews, newest first. Hide removes a review from the public page, the rating and the engagement page; Show brings it back.

What suspension does to live work: engagements with a suspended expert or college are frozen — nobody can accept, counter or complete, and the page says why. Messages, declining, withdrawing and cancelling still work. Reinstating unfreezes everything.

Engagement statuses

Expert page statuses

Emails you'll receive

You're never emailed about something you did yourself. On the college side, "the other side" means every active member.