The Alumni Data & Engagement Health Check
A quick self-assessment for schools, universities and membership bodies
This isn’t a deep audit. It’s a two-minute gut check. Go through the twelve questions below, tick the ones that are honestly true for your current setup, and tally your score at the end. The point isn’t to get a perfect score. It’s to see, clearly, where your alumni programme is solid and where it’s quietly leaking time, data or engagement.
Answer honestly. Most teams are surprised by at least one answer.
Tick each box that's honestly true for your current setup, then check your score at the bottom.
Twelve questions, about two minutes, one clear picture of where things stand.
Data & Records
Communication
Events & Participation
Compliance & Consent
Mentoring & Community
0 / 13
Tick the boxes above to see your score
Your Score
0–4: High risk of losing alumni without realising it. This doesn’t reflect on your team. It usually means the tools in place were never designed to work together. The good news is this is the most common starting point we see, and the most straightforward to improve.
5–8: Workable, but stretched. Most teams land here. The gaps are rarely about effort, they’re about systems not talking to each other. A handful of small disconnects can add up to a lot of manual admin over a year.
9–12: Strong foundations. Your core systems are largely doing what they should. Worth reviewing the specific boxes left unticked, since those are usually the areas quietly costing the most time relative to how small they seem.
What to do with your results
If your answers pointed to a few consistent gaps, especially around data flowing between systems, that’s usually the clearest sign a connected platform would help. At VeryConnect, we bring alumni records, communications, events, compliance and mentoring into one place, so the boxes above tend to check themselves rather than needing constant manual upkeep.
If you’d like to talk through what your results mean for your specific setup, you can book a short discovery call. We’ll help you figure out which gaps are worth prioritising first.