jwuLink vs Modern Campus Involve
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
jwuLink
This app connects Johnson & Wales University students with essential systems, information, and people. It provides access to academic tools, important notifications, and campus resources to help students succeed.
- Access academic systems
- Receive notifications
- View campus announcements
- Search for people and resources
- Connect with departments and peers
- Manage to-do lists
- Discover campus events
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jwuLink is your one-stop-shop connecting you with the systems, information, people and updates you'll need to succeed at Johnson & Wales University. Use jwuLink to: • Access ulearn, course schedules, Wildcat Mail and other everyday systems • Receive key notifications from ulearn, groups, etc. • Keep updated on announcements and alerts relevant to you • Search peers, systems, groups, posts, resources and more • Connect with departments, services, organizations and peers • Stay focused on your most important to-dos • View personalized resources and content • Find and join events If you have questions about jwuLink, please contact the helpdesk at it@jwu.edu.
Modern Campus Involve
Discover campus organizations and events, sync them to your calendar, and check into activities using your digital ID. Leaders can also manage event check-ins within the app. It's designed to boost student engagement and track involvement.
- Discover organizations
- Find tagged events
- Sync events to calendar
- View Digital ID
- Run Event Check-In
- Facilitate event check-in
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Use the all-new Modern Campus Involve app to find out how you can get involved on campus, check-in to events with your Digital ID, and more! Organization leaders and administrators can also facilitate the event check-in process all in the same application. • Discover organizations to get involved in • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Sync interesting events to your calendar • View your Digital ID • Run Event Check-In • And More! Powered by Modern Campus Involve. Involve provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, track and measure learning, and improve retention.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: jwuLink at 3.5 against Modern Campus Involve's 1.8. jwuLink also leads on review sentiment (38% vs 14%). Modern Campus Involve's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (60 vs 14). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
jwuLink holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 60 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of jwuLink's written reviews are positive against 14% of Modern Campus Involve's.
jwuLink ships an update every 5 months, Modern Campus Involve every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | jwuLink | Modern Campus Involve |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (14 ratings) — better | 1.8 (60 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 38.5% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 60 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.2 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Johnson & Wales University | Check I'm Here, LLC |
Customer experience
jwuLink
Modern Campus Involve
Bugs and requests
jwuLink
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Modern Campus Involve
Reported bugs
30 issues- Login trouble
- App crashes
- Search bar does not work
- Categories in search bar are unhelpful
- Garbage backend
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- Login error for campus
- Camera not working (iPhone 15)
- Won't ask permission for camera
- App steals information
- Can't find school/nothing to click
- Can't sign in
- Presence not good for college
- Used by schools to track students
- Can't log in
- Login Issue
- Not worth downloading
- Failed to log in
- App suuuuuucks
- Won't let me log in
- Can't log in to start using it
- Gave me Ebola
- Caused grandma to die from cancer
- Made parents divorce
- Keeps giving option to log in after many tries
- Link does not load for student account
- Stuck on first screen
- Stuck on intro page
- Won't work on iPhone and iPad
- Won't let me past location select screen
- Stuck on the first page after opening
Requested features
5 requests- 💡 Improve login system
- 💡 Fix search functionality
- 💡 Enable camera for check-ins on iPhone 15
- 💡 Provide clarity on data usage
- 💡 Offer a regular check-in system alternative
In-app purchases
jwuLink
No in-app purchases
Modern Campus Involve
No in-app purchases
Questions
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