First friends, by design
Mixed-team missions mean new students arrive at lunch already knowing the people they played with all morning, not just the people in their dorm.
Campus Experiences · Day-One Onboarding
Make day one the day
new students fall in love with campus.
The first 48 hours set the tone for the next four years. ReadySet turns arrival day into a real-world multiplayer experience that introduces new students to their classmates, their campus, and the people they'll lean on all year.
Why campus teams choose ReadySet for onboarding
A welcome that beats a tote bag and a campus map.
Replace the lecture-hall orientation with an experience new students will still talk about in their senior year, and that does the real work of helping them belong.
Learn the campus by playing on it
Map-based missions take new students past the library, the health center, the cafeteria, and the buildings they'll need to find on day one of classes.
Meet the people, not just the places
Surface RAs, advisors, club leads and faculty as part of the missions. By the end of the day, new students have actual humans they recognize.
Made for whole cohorts
Run a single onboarding experience across hundreds, or thousands, of new students at once, on one live leaderboard.
Branded to your campus
Your colors, your traditions, your sponsors. Every faculty, hall and student-life team can layer in their own moments.
Zero friction to join
Students arrive, install the ReadySet app, enter an event code, and they're playing. No accounts, no waivers, no IT tickets.
The first 48 hours, hour by hour
From the parking lot to "I belong here."
We've watched thousands of new students go through ReadySet onboarding. Here's the arc most campuses run, and what changes when the first day stops being a lecture and starts being a game.
Hour 0–2 · Arrival
Onboarded before unpacking
Students download the app at check-in, get assigned to a mixed team, and meet 5–10 strangers before they've even seen their dorm room.
Hour 2–6 · Campus discovery
Map-led missions
Teams race between key buildings, the library, the dining hall, the health center, the chapel, collecting checkpoints, photos and stories along the way.
Hour 6–10 · People & support
The humans who matter
Missions surface RAs, advisors, chaplains and club leads. By dinner, every new student has at least three names and faces they recognize.
Day 2 · Cohort moment
Citywide showstopper
A signature multiplayer experience, a treasure hunt, a charity challenge, a live final, becomes the moment the whole class remembers as 'when it started.'
Week 1 · Belonging
The friend group is already there
First lectures don't start with the awkward back-row silence. Students walk in with people they played with and want to sit next to.
Year 1 · Retention
Day one keeps paying off
The relationships forged in the first 48 hours are the ones that bring students back after winter break, and onto graduation day.