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What is ConnectYard?
ConnectYard is a social media communications platform that increases student engagement and awareness. Using ConnectYard, your institution can reach students where they live and learn through today’s popular social and mobile media.
Why use ConnectYard?
Email alone is no longer an effective tool for reaching today's students. Sure, they login to their institution’s portal and Learning Management System when necessary — but the vast majority of them check their mobile phones and social networking sites multiple times per day. In fact, studies show that many young adults in North America spend an average of almost 8 hours a day using these technologies. Unfortunately, when students enter college, they're transported backward from the 21st to the 19th century when it comes to applications of these technologies within academic environments. As a result, students are less engaged and the institution is left out of the conversation.
ConnectYard can help colleges and universities re-enter the conversation. ConnectYard bridges the communications gap between your students and your institution. By integrating into portals and Learning Management Systems — and connecting to social and mobile media — ConnectYard enables dynamic, two-way conversations between faculty, staff and students without the need to “friend”, “follow” or even join a social network, so that privacy is effectively maintained. ConnectYard can be used for individual course communications as well as campus-wide messaging to entire departments, schools, colleges or universities.
Who can use ConnectYard?
ConnectYard can be used by all individuals and organizations in the academic environment including:
- Campus Communications: ConnectYard can support emergency as well as non-emergency campus alerts, getting info out quickly to places people will actually check.
- Teaching & Learning: ConnectYard integrates into popular Learning Management Systems to engage students outside of the classroom using their preferred communication channels.
- Enrollment Management: ConnectYard can be used to engage prospective students and connect them with current students before they arrive on campus.
- Student Services: ConnectYard can help broadcast important information on upcoming events and critical support services.
If your institution wants to “Communicate Better”….we can help.
