![]() ![]() This plan provides for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Monday through Friday, as well as for brunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday. 7 that lets dorm residents track their meal swipe balance, after surveying students and hosting a series of focus groups last quarter. UCLA Housing piloted a feature on the UCLA Housing phone application Jan. Students can now check on their phones how many meal swipes they have left. Currently, indoor seating for students with meal plans is available at all you care to eat and to-go restaurants. Students may swipe more than once at to-go restaurants. I’m referring, of course, to the “8-clap,” which is the Bruins’ go-to cheer on game day, graduation or just about any other occasion. If you find yourself inexplicably counting to eight every time you start clapping, you know you’re a UCLA fan. She added UCLA Housing will start to bring back focus groups and send out surveys for feedback during the first week of February.At a minimum, you must earn a 3.0 GPA or better (3.4 for nonresidents) in all college preparatory courses. Fewer than 2,000 users have downloaded the app since the feature was released. Wilson said UCLA Housing aims to publicize the meal-swipe-balance feature through word of mouth and posters displayed on the Hill. But now, you can just check on your phone.” “They have to walk either all the way to a front desk or ask at a dining hall, which can sometimes be a burden because you could be in the middle of doing homework. ![]() “I know a bunch of students constantly worry about whether or not they can eat for the meal period, day, or rest of the week,” Sandoval-Lopez said. Neida Sandoval-Lopez, a front desk student worker and second-year sociology student, said she thinks the app sounds convenient and useful, although she has not downloaded the app and used the new feature herself. ![]() “I think the app could do a better job integrating the outside MyUCLA website since the login screen with the multifactor authentication makes the transition a bit clunky,” Chen said. Chen said she thinks the meal balance feature is helpful because students do not have to physically go to their residence hall’s front desk to check their swipe balance. UCLA Housing has also sought input from resident assistants, front desk and Access Control student workers and dining hall employees.Įmily Chen, a resident assistant and third-year sociology student, said she thought the interface of the app was clean overall and was mostly straightforward. The app currently posts hourly, rather than live, updates because the BruinCard transaction software does not allow for instant updates, Wilson said. The meal swipe balance feature is just a pilot program for now, but Wilson said UCLA Housing hopes it will become a permanent fixture once it can ensure the app will work as intended for a large scale of users. “Meal plan balance came up as one of the top priorities for students on a housing app,” Wilson said. Once UCLA Housing determined that it should develop an app for students, it surveyed students about what they wanted included in the app. UCLA Housing developed the app with Modo Labs in 2018 after it conducted research that showed Hill residents get most of their information through mobile apps, said Barbara Wilson, director of UCLA Housing and Hospitality Services’ Rooms Division. ![]() ![]()
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