# Varsio > Varsio is a campus app for UK universities that runs under each university's own name, made by Shacksolutions, the team behind RHUL Mobile. A university's pilot launches with an app for its students, with the timetable, campus services, notices and support in one place, and a web dashboard where staff send notices to chosen groups of students, see how many read them and choose what the app's assistant answers from. Each link below is a Markdown copy of a page on varsio.co.uk; the page itself is at the same address without `.md`. Varsio is made by Shacksolutions (SHACKSOLUTIONS LTD, registered in England and Wales, company number 13337279). Write to varsio@shack.solutions. ## Product - [Varsio home page: A campus app students open. Engagement you can measure.](https://varsio.co.uk/index.html.md): A campus app for UK universities, in your own name: notices, support and campus essentials, from a one-term pilot. Never trained on student data. ## Answers - [Questions about Varsio, answered.](https://varsio.co.uk/answers.md): Straight answers about Varsio, the campus app for UK universities: what it is, how a launch works, pricing, student data, accessibility and more. - [What is Varsio?](https://varsio.co.uk/answers/what-is-varsio.md): Varsio is a white-label campus app for UK universities. A university's pilot launches with an app under its name, a staff dashboard and an assistant. - [How long does it take to launch Varsio?](https://varsio.co.uk/answers/how-long-does-a-launch-take.md): Varsio can be live in 2 to 4 weeks once we have sign-in access, the connections we agree and your App Store account. It starts as a paid pilot. - [How much does Varsio cost?](https://varsio.co.uk/answers/how-much-does-varsio-cost.md): Varsio publishes no price. You start with a one-term paid pilot at one written price fixed for the term, and we send pilot pricing before your demo. - [How does Varsio protect student data?](https://varsio.co.uk/answers/how-does-varsio-protect-student-data.md): Cyber Essentials, ICO registration and a no-training clause today; UK hosting, an independent penetration test and a DPIA pack before launch. - [Is the Varsio app accessible?](https://varsio.co.uk/answers/is-the-varsio-app-accessible.md): The app will be built to WCAG 2.2 AA and tested with VoiceOver and TalkBack before launch. What UK accessibility law asks of a university app. - [What does Varsio connect to?](https://varsio.co.uk/answers/what-does-varsio-connect-to.md): Planned connections are Microsoft sign-in, Syllabus Plus or Celcat timetables, and Moodle, Canvas and Blackboard, plus links to SU and halls apps. - [How does the Varsio assistant work?](https://varsio.co.uk/answers/how-does-the-assistant-work.md): Launched with your pilot, it answers students from the pages and systems you approve, shows its sources, and asks before it books or reports anything. - [RHUL Mobile: the campus app Varsio grew from](https://varsio.co.uk/answers/rhul-mobile-case-study.md): Shacksolutions has run RHUL Mobile, an independent app for Royal Holloway students, since 2021. It had 5,612 student accounts on 26 October 2026. - [How does Varsio compare with campusM, myday and others?](https://varsio.co.uk/answers/varsio-compared-with-other-campus-apps.md): What campusM, myday, ReadyCampus, Modo Labs and Varsio each say about themselves, side by side and linked, as at 11 November 2026. ## Blog - [The Varsio blog.](https://varsio.co.uk/blog.md): Practical, sourced writing for UK universities on reaching students, student data, accessibility and running a campus app. - [Do the accessibility regulations cover your student app?](https://varsio.co.uk/blog/accessibility-rules-for-student-apps.md): GOV.UK says apps for a defined group such as students fall outside the 2018 regulations. Why the Equality Act still applies, and what to ask a supplier for. - [Before you switch on an AI assistant for students](https://varsio.co.uk/blog/ai-assistants-in-student-services.md): Five checks before an AI assistant answers students, covering its sources, what it may do, what it hands to staff, how mistakes show and what happens to data. - [Apple's guideline 4.2.6 and your university's own app](https://varsio.co.uk/blog/apple-guideline-4-2-6-university-apps.md): Apple rejects template apps a supplier submits for its clients. What that means for a branded university app, from accounts and fees to roles. - [Why open rates can't tell you if students read your email](https://varsio.co.uk/blog/email-open-rates-and-student-notices.md): Apple's Mail Privacy Protection loads tracking pixels whether or not anyone reads the email. What universities can measure instead, and how. - [NSS question 26: how students rate wellbeing communication](https://varsio.co.uk/blog/nss-question-26-wellbeing-communication.md): The NSS asks how well universities communicate their mental wellbeing support. The exact question, who answers it, the 2025 and 2026 results, and what helps. - [OfS condition E6: the single source, and where an app fits](https://varsio.co.uk/blog/ofs-condition-e6-single-source.md): What condition E6 asks of English universities' information on harassment, what the single source must hold, and what an app can and cannot do. - [Buying a campus app under the Procurement Act 2023](https://varsio.co.uk/blog/procurement-act-campus-app.md): The 2026 threshold, how a contract's value is worked out, whether your university is a contracting authority, and what that means for buying a campus app. - [Questions to ask a campus app supplier about student data](https://varsio.co.uk/blog/student-app-supplier-data-questions.md): Ten questions your data protection officer can put to any campus app supplier, from sub-processors and hosting to AI training and exit. ## Optional - [Accessibility statement](https://varsio.co.uk/accessibility.md): How accessible the Varsio website is, how we tested it, its known limitations and how to tell us about a problem. - [Hasseeb Hussain](https://varsio.co.uk/authors/hasseeb-hussain.md): A full-stack software engineer and a director of Shacksolutions, the company that builds Varsio and runs RHUL Mobile. - [Privacy notice](https://varsio.co.uk/privacy.md): How Shacksolutions handles the personal data you give us through the Varsio website and its demo form. - [Terms of use](https://varsio.co.uk/terms.md): The terms that apply when you use the Varsio website: who runs it, what it does and does not promise, and how you may use it. - [Every page in one file](https://varsio.co.uk/llms-full.txt): The full text of the site.