For Universities
ADHD student support for universities that bridges accommodations and daily follow-through.
OVR IT gives ADHD students one grade-prioritized next move when they fall behind or freeze. It also gives disability services, student affairs, and IT teams a clearer view of engagement and recovery.
For the student
Who has extended time but doesn’t know what to work on.
For the advisor
Who needs a signal that a student is actually using support.
For the institution
Tracking persistence and retention outcomes.
For Disability Services
Your students have accommodations. They still need execution tools.
Accommodation letters open doors. Getting through them takes a different kind of support. OVR IT gives students a daily execution layer — syllabus to schedule to one clear next step — and gives your office early visibility into whether support is translating to follow-through.
Syllabus Scanner
Upload a syllabus, extract every deadline and grade weight in seconds. Students verify before saving — no accuracy surprises.
Semester Heartbeat
An EKG-style view of deadline pressure across the full term. Students see crunch periods before they arrive — not after they've already fallen behind.
BRIO
BRIO. A proactive AI coach that opens conversations using the student's own academic context, not generic tips. Checks in before deadlines, not after.
I'm Overwhelmed
When everything feels like too much, students get a structured de-escalation path instead of shutting down. Crisis flow built into the core experience.
Assignment Decoder
Breaks any assignment into the smallest possible starting point. Built for task initiation — the first and hardest step for ADHD students.
Co-Focus Rooms
Body doubling for students who work better alongside others. Supported by recent ADHD research (Ara et al., 2025 — arXiv preprint).
What your office gets:
- Accommodation Effectiveness View — usage patterns aligned to your cohort, not averaged into noise
- Early risk signals before grade-based systems catch them
- Complement to case management workflows — not a replacement
- Role-based reporting posture — your data stays in your lane
For IT & Procurement
Zero infrastructure burden. Full institutional control.
Students sign up with their university email and are active in under five minutes. No LMS integration required to start. When your campus is ready for deeper integration, it's there.
Domain Detection
Students are auto-identified as your institution's cohort by email domain. No provisioning scripts or manual roster uploads required.
School Activation Codes
Issue codes for cohort-specific pilots. Track adoption without manual roster management or IT ticketing.
FERPA-Conscious Design
Student content never trains AI models and is never sold. Data processing agreement available for institutional review. See the full FERPA compliance checklist for edtech vendors →
Role-Based Access
Disability Services, Student Affairs, and IT each see exactly what's relevant to their role. No accidental oversharing.
Canvas LMS Sync
Optional: connect Canvas for grade context and academic planning. When campus readiness allows.
Security Review Ready
Privacy posture documentation and DPA ready for institutional review. SSO planning aligned to campus readiness timeline.
Pilot model
Start with a defined cohort. Expand based on evidence.
For University Leadership
The retention gap is measurable — OVR IT is designed to help address it.
Every percentage point of retention is students, tuition dollars, and accreditation outcomes. OVR IT is a direct intervention at the moment retention risk starts: the gap between accommodation approval and daily academic follow-through. Read the ADHD college dropout statistics and the research on ADHD college graduation rates for the full picture.
Non-Enrollment Risk
~3× more likely to leave by year 2
ADHD students vs. non-ADHD peers
DuPaul et al., 2018 — PMC6586431
Persistence Gap
49% vs. 59% — 8-semester persistence
Unmedicated ADHD vs. non-ADHD peers
Anastopoulos et al., 2021 — PMC8797030
Graduation Gap
49.5% vs. 68% — six-year graduation rate
Students with disabilities vs. without
NCES, 2023
Reporting is structured to communicate clearly to every institutional stakeholder — without overclaiming outcomes or presenting pilot activity as validated proof.
Activation & Adoption Brief
Who started, where engagement is forming, where drop-off appears early.
Accommodation Effectiveness View
Usage patterns that may indicate support uptake and follow-through.
Retention Risk Radar
Signals that help teams identify where additional support may be needed.
Executive ROI Narrative
Structured communication of pilot activity and institutional learning for leadership.
Mission alignment
Study for Good
OVR IT donates to CHADD — Children and Adults with ADHD — when students hit academic milestones. The tool that helps students succeed also funds the national organization working to support them. Institutional pilots directly contribute to that mission.
For Students & Parents
This is the app for when your student falls behind and freezes.
For Parents
Your student already knows what they need to do. What they need is a way to restart after falling behind — without the shame spiral that makes it worse. No tuition dollar goes further than one that keeps a student enrolled.
For Students
No streak punishment. No overwhelming task lists. No shame when you miss a day. Just one clear next move, every time you open it. Built for ADHD, not retrofitted for it.
Semester Heartbeat
See your whole semester at a glance — crunch periods visible before they sneak up on you.
BRIO
BRIO. An AI study coach that knows your schedule and checks in proactively, before deadlines, not after.
I'm Overwhelmed
A structured path out of freeze mode, for when everything feels impossible at once.
Assignment Decoder
Break any assignment into the first step you can take right now — no more staring at a blank page.
Co-Focus Rooms
Study alongside other students for accountability without pressure. Body doubling that works.
Grade Predictor
See what each assignment is worth before you commit time, so you know where to put your energy first.
Energy Tracker
Log how you feel and discover your optimal study windows — work with your brain, not against it.
Get Back on Track
When you fall behind, OVR IT helps you re-enter instead of spiral. Reset and restart, not shame and quit.
Free tier available — no credit card required to start.
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Detailed breakdowns for each stakeholder group at your institution.
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Frequently asked questions
What disability services, IT, and procurement teams ask before they pilot OVR IT.
- Is OVR IT FERPA compliant?
- Yes. OVR IT operates under signed data processing agreements with university partners, supports school official designation, and follows the FERPA control set documented at ovrit.app/blog/ferpa-compliance-checklist-edtech-vendors — including documented subprocessors, role-based access controls, breach notification SLAs, and audit logs.
- How does OVR IT support university disability services offices?
- OVR IT gives disability services teams a student-facing tool that takes the executive-function load off accommodations follow-through, plus an institutional dashboard with FERPA-aware analytics, accommodation tracking, and at-risk early alerts. Students get one clear next move; coordinators get earlier signal on which students need outreach.
- What does institutional deployment look like?
- Deployment is fast: SSO via SAML or OIDC, no LMS integration required to start, and rollout typically takes weeks rather than the multi-quarter cycles common for student success platforms. We can begin with a single program (TRIO, disability services, academic coaching) and expand from there.
- How does OVR IT improve ADHD student retention?
- ADHD students are roughly 3× more likely to be non-enrolled by year 2 compared to non-ADHD peers (DuPaul, Gormley, Anastopoulos et al., 2018 — PMC6586431). The mechanism is rarely intelligence — it's executive-function friction at the start of every assignment. OVR IT is the execution layer that removes that friction at scale, with reporting that makes the impact measurable for retention teams.
- Can OVR IT integrate with our LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace)?
- Students can upload syllabi from any LMS as PDFs to start using OVR IT immediately — no integration required. For institutions wanting a deeper LMS integration, we offer LTI 1.3 connectors and a roadmap toward bidirectional sync. Contact partnerships@ovrit.app to discuss specifics.
- What does OVR IT cost for institutions?
- Institutional pricing is tiered by enrollment and use case (single program vs. campus-wide). Pilot programs are available at reduced cost for partners willing to share aggregated outcome data for case studies. Reach out via the partnerships form to get a tailored quote.
- Is OVR IT a replacement for our existing student success or accommodation platform?
- No. OVR IT complements platforms like EAB Navigate, Symplicity Accommodate, and Slate — it's the ADHD-specific execution layer those platforms don't include. Most partners deploy OVR IT alongside existing tools to fill the executive-function gap their platforms can't address.