(Last update: 10/03/2009)

Group sign-up

• Students can explore groups, search by category or keyword and read the mission statements of each group
• Students can sign up to several groups from the same page
• Students can pay membership dues online (into Paypal, Google checkout or your school e-commerce platform)
• Dues can be paid into one single account for the school or into a separate accounts for each group
• Make signing up to your group on "invitation only" with a secret word
• When signing-up, students enter their profile information once for all groups
• Group officers can customize their sign-up page with their logo, mission statement, specific sign-up instructions,and several membership options (price, membership duration).

Membership management

• Officers can sort their members into different sub-groups (example: full-time, past-time, alumni, faculty, staff) and by year of graduation
• Select and display sub-group listings
• Edit student information
• Tag members and retrieve/email tagged sub-groups
• See sign-up date and change membership end date
• Validate, reject or report new members
• View member payments summary
• View students photos and activity stats, history and co-curricular transcript
• Download all members into Excel
• Upload members from Excel or any contact management software
• Create opt-in sub-groups and allow students to choose join sub-groups when signing up to your group

Officer management

• Set members as officers
• Set officers as active or inactive
• Enter the position and bio of each officer
• Select who is (are) the head officer(s) of your group
• Select who is the treasurer
• Select the advisor(s) of the group
• Upload a photo for each officer
• Publish the list of officers on a web page
• Assign specific privileges to each officer
  • Edit other officers permissions
  • Edit members information
  • Send a new email
  • Create an event
  • Create a form/survey
  • Edit web site content
  • Post group news
• Receive notifications for specific events
  • New member
  • New officer appointed
  • New event registration
  • New form/survey answer
• Receive daily/weekly/monthly group news summary by email

Email marketing

• Select one or several sub-groups of members
• Compose an email in HTML with the same options as a classic rich text editor
• Attach images and files
• Use mail-merge fields (first_name, last_name, company_name, password, etc)
• Include images in the body of your email
• Include event invitations (see Events)
• Include survey requests (see Surveys)
• Include job posting links (see Jobs)
• Include a profile link which allows students to easily update their profile
• Enter a feedback button (“Was this email useful to you?”)
• Create and use a newsletter template
• Schedule the dispatch of an email at a later date
• Save your email as a draft
• Publish an email (as a newsletter) on a web page
• Track opening and click rates
• Know who opened your email and who clicked what link
• Search sent emails with keywords
• Resend or forward past sent emails

Event management

• Create an event with title, description, date and location
• Add a flyer and file attachments
• Automatically create an event registration page allowing students to RSVP online
• Automatic reminders
• Automatic feedback/rating request sent by email 24h after the event
• Cap event attendance
• Waiting list management
• Show/hide the list & number of attendees from the RSVP page
• Allow or not students to post comments on the event page
• Allow or not students to upload files to the event
• Grant access to you event to:
  • Everybody
  • Officers only
  • Students only
  • Members only
• Restrict the event to sub-groups of members
• Restrict the event to certain types of students
• Hide your event from the calendar
• Sell tickets online (via Paypal or Google CheckOut or school e-commerce platform).
• Set different prices for different types of attendes (members, non-members, alumni, etc)
• Co-host events with other groups at your school or at other schools. Co-hosting allows other groups to send invitations to their members
• Send invitations by email allowing students to RSVP in one click
• Events are posted on a school wide calendar
• Events can be downloaded into Outlook and any iCal compatible calendar software
• Students can post feedback and ratings after the event
• See the list of attendees, their comments and how much they paid for the event
• Download attendees list into Excel
• Sort list randomly for random attendee selection
• Search events with keywords
• Download the full list of events into Excel

Files and photos

• When a file (document, flyer) is attached to an email or an event, the file is also stored on your group account. Files can be retrieved and reused for later emails/events.
• Upload standalone files and photos into your account
• Tag files and photos to group them into folders or albums
• Post comments for your photos and files
• Share your files/photos on a web page of your web site
• Share your files/photos with specific sub-groups of members

 

Event Calendar

• Students can view all events on the school wide calendar
• Students can RSVP to events by clicking on an event
• Students can filter the calendar and only display certain groups events. Hide/show events from desired groups in just 1 click.
• Browse past events and archives
• Export the whole calendar into Outlook, Google Calendar and other iCal compatible calendar software. iCal feeds are alwasy up to date and can update themselves on your calendar software automatically.
• Export 1 group calendars at a time
• Once logged on, a student only sees the events for the groups he signed up to

Job posting module

• Create a job posting: title, description, employer, etc
• Add a file attachment
• Automatically create a job application page allowing students to apply online
• Cap job applications
• Show/hide the list & number of applicants
• Allow or not students to upload files to the job posting page
• Restrict job posting to a sub-group of members
• Co-own job postings with other groups. Co-owning allows other groups to send job postings to their members too
• Share (inform) your posting with other groups
• Send job posting by email allowing students to apply in one click
• Job postings are posted on an all-groups job listing
• On-campus recruiting with time slot "First Come First Served" reservations. Students can pick a time slots and officers can cap the number of registrants per time slot. Time slot assignments can be downloaded into Excel.

Forms/Surveys/Polls

• A form is the same thing as a survey but with a different look and feel. A poll is a survey with just one question
• Create a form, survey or poll
• Send form/survey/poll invitation by email
• Make your form/survey/poll public or for logged on members only
• Assign your form/survey/poll to sub-groups of members
• Publish your survey on a web page of your web site
• Post your poll online, embed it anywere on the web
• View the answers of a survey/poll
• Download list of answers into Excel
• Download individual answers into Word or PDF

Easy web site design

• Create a complete web site in a few clicks with CampusGroups’s pre-generated web content:
• Home page ("About us")
• List of officers
• List of published newsletters
• List of published events
• List of published form/surveys/polls
• List of published photos and files
• Group contact information
• Group calendar and event registration
• Group sign-up and online payments
• List of news
• Mini news summary module
• Mini event list module
• Customize colors and top banner
• Create and edit personalized web pages
• Create members-only area allowing your members to log on
• Include any pre-generated content (above) into these web pages
• Group web pages by into sub-menus under one single menu item
• Allow visitors to bookmark your pages and subscribe to your RSS feeds

Group news

• View a timeline of all news related to your group (1 week, 1 month, 1 year)
• Publish your emails and events into other groups news
• Receive your group news by email daily/weekly/monthly

Features for students

• Update your profile (your profile is the same for all groups)
• Upload your photo
• Profile page summary:
  • My groups
  • My school friends
  • My inbox (including external email retrieval)
  • My events
  • My payments
  • My resumes and jobs applications
• My groups features:
  • Detailed page for each group
  • Post on the group’s wall
  • Post group discussion threads
  • Post group photos and files
• My emails features:
  • List emails received from groups
  • View external emails (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, School email)
• My events features:
  • All groups event calendar
  • My groups upcoming events
  • List of events you registered to
• My school friends features:
  • Search other students and alumni and invite to connect
  • See connections photos, contact info, status updates
  • See connections group membership
  • See connections resumes
• My jobs features:
  • Upload your resumes
  • Apply to jobs posted by your groups
• My co-curricular transcript
  • My profile (summary, goals, etc)
  • My resume(s)
  • My skills and experience grouped by areas
  • My leadership positions (officer positions, event leader, etc)
  • My references
  • Easy transcript creation wizard
  • View, customize and print your transcript
  • Request approval from your school
• Other apps:
  • My external emails import
  • My updates
  • My time/location management module
  • My personal event management
  • My meetings and invitations

Features for Student Life administrators

• Add/delete/edit groups accounts
• Approve events
• Approve new groups
• View any group news from any of the groups
• View and email part or all students in the system
• View and email part or all officers in the system. Email the heads for the groups only. Email the treasurers only.
• Log on as a student officer in any group
• View the list of groups and their activity level indicators (number of members, logins, events, emails). Sort the list by any indicator.
• See and print charts with monthly stats on all data
• Create forms and receive answers. Download answers into individual forms or a full list of answers (see Forms/Surveys/Polls above)
• Review and approve co-curricular transcripts