Links for Education
Readable links for students, staff and open days — with control over what stays live.
Education produces an enormous number of URLs: reading lists, enrolment forms, timetables, campus maps, open day pages, department resources. Most of them are long, most are shared verbally or on paper, and most need to change between terms. Short links make them speakable and keep them correctable.
Links people can say out loud
A lecturer reading a URL to a room, a poster in a corridor, a slide at the end of a talk — these all fail with a long path. A short link on the institution's own domain, with a readable slug, is short enough to type and recognisable enough to trust.
AI slug suggestions help produce something pronounceable rather than random, and slugs stay editable if the wording turns out to be awkward, without losing the link's history.
- Readable slugs on an institutional domain
- Editable slugs that keep their analytics
- QR codes for slides, posters and handbooks
- A custom 404 destination for mistyped codes
Content that changes every term
Reading lists, timetables and module pages are replaced on a cycle. Editable destinations mean the link printed in last year's handbook can be pointed at this year's page, and expiry with a fallback handles the links that genuinely should stop working.
Folder defaults let a department set its domain, tagging and expiry rules once so that every link created inside that folder inherits them.
- Repoint links between terms without reprinting
- Expiry with a fallback for retired material
- Folders per department, course or campaign
- Bulk edits across a whole folder
Recruitment and open days
Prospectus codes, open day signage and campaign links all benefit from separate links per placement, because that is what makes the comparison meaningful. Country targeting is genuinely useful for international recruitment, sending applicants to the entry requirements that apply to them.
Conversion tracking connects a click to an application start, so recruitment channels can be compared on applications rather than on traffic.
- A link per placement for comparable results
- Country targeting for international entry requirements
- Conversion tracking through to an application
- A/B testing across two landing pages
Access and privacy
Some resources are for enrolled students only. Password protection provides a simple gate, expiry closes access after a term, and encrypted links keep the destination unreadable from our side.
IP hiding and configurable retention mean you can measure how much a resource is used without holding identifiable click data longer than your policy allows.
- Password gates and expiry on restricted resources
- Encrypted destinations for sensitive shares
- IP hiding and configurable retention
- Full data export at any time
Many departments, one system
An institution rarely wants one central person creating every link. Teams give each department or faculty its own space with its own domains and folders, while roles keep control where it belongs. Read-only access covers the people who only need to look up where a link goes.
SAML single sign-on ties access to the existing directory, so leavers lose access as part of the normal process.
- A team per faculty, department or service
- Owner, admin, user and read-only roles
- SAML 2.0 single sign-on
- Per-link permissions on printed or institution-wide links
Knowing what actually gets used
Click data tells you whether a reading list is being opened, whether the code on a poster is being scanned, and when in the term usage peaks. Bot traffic is separated out so a link posted on a public page is not reported as student engagement.
Everything exports as CSV, and the API allows scheduled pulls for anyone reporting on resource usage across a department.
- Usage by link, folder, day and device
- Automated traffic reported separately
- CSV export and API reporting endpoints
- Period comparisons across terms
Questions
Can each department manage its own links?
Yes. Teams and folders separate departments, and roles decide who can create, edit or only view.
Can we reuse the same printed link next year?
Yes. Change the destination to the current year's page and the printed link keeps working.
Do you support institutional single sign-on?
Yes, SAML 2.0 with the usual identity providers.
Can we restrict a resource to enrolled students?
You can password protect a link, expire it after a term, or encrypt the destination. It is link-level access control rather than an identity check against your student record system.
Can we see how much a resource is used without tracking individuals?
Yes. With IP hiding enabled you still get volume, timing, device and coarse geography.
Give every course and campaign a link people can actually read out.
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The free plan includes 1,000 links, 6 custom domains and 50,000 tracked clicks a month, free forever. Choose a free subdomain from six shared domains. Paid plans start at $4 a month when you outgrow it, and you keep everything you have built.