You can use a variety of tools for sending messages to a group. We have outlined solutions, rated them for effort required, and have identified key considerations.
You can use a variety of tools for sending messages to a group. We have outlined solutions, rated them for effort required, and have identified key considerations.
The University of Minnesota's informal mass email community of practice shares best practices on email tools, training, and processes in order to help mass email professionals efficiently engage with their constituent
The University of Minnesota's informal mass email community of practice shares best practices on email tools, training, and processes in order to help mass email professionals efficiently engage with their constituent
Instructors often use classroom discussions to promote sharing and ideas about a subject matter. Sometimes, discussions can become rote and tedious, or engage only one or a few students and the instructor.
Challenge
When using pre-assigned breakout rooms, specific guidelines must be followed to ensure students are routed to their designated Zoom breakout rooms.
Uploading a large video file is cumbersome, and navigating a video recording of a 50-minute (or longer) class is challenging for students. By chunking your lecture, you can create smaller files. This is easy to do in Zoom and will benefit both you and your students.
The Zoom for Canvas Integration allows you to start and join Zoom meetings from within Canvas. This article is for UMN faculty and staff who would like to use Zoom together with Canvas.
This article details how those with Supervisor accounts in Clearspan Communicator and Clearspan Webex Teams (formerly Webex Engage) can set Forced Forwarding for a Call Center queue.
This article details how those with Supervisor accounts in Clearspan Communicator and Clearspan Webex Teams (formerly Webex Engage) can set Forced Forwarding for a Call Center queue.
This article is an overview of how to sign in to the Web Application for Clearspan Communicator and Clearspan Webex Teams (formerly Webex Engage) as a Supervisor of a call center for monitoring agents and calls in que
This article is an overview of how to sign in to the Web Application for Clearspan Communicator and Clearspan Webex Teams (formerly Webex Engage) as a Supervisor of a call center for monitoring agents and calls in que
This article details how to sign in to the Call Center web application for Clearspan Communicator and Clearspan Webex Teams (formerly Webex Engage) with a Supervisor account. It also details general use of the Call C
This article details how to sign in to the Call Center web application for Clearspan Communicator and Clearspan Webex Teams (formerly Webex Engage) with a Supervisor account. It also details general use of the Call C
Gmail's Canned Responses (Templates) feature is a great resource for those who continually receive the same questions or comments via email and wish to use prepared responses to answer these emails. T
Email forwarding is available to:
Current Students and Staff who are NOT in the Academic Health Center or other Department or School that handles sensitive d
Resource calendars are special calendars used for rooms or equipment. This allows individuals to publicly notify others that they will be using that resource at the scheduled time.
Many users inquire about the differences between Google Groups and Listservs. Although Listserv was scheduled to be retired, this has been delayed indefinitely due to some of the unique benefits it provides.
Guidelines for Google Group Managers
The University of Minnesota and Google have negotiated contract terms and conditions that protect the privacy and confidentiality of University student, faculty, staff, a
Google Groups, a tool for a team of users to quickly collaborate with one another either via email, or any of Google's various applications, is available with Google Apps for the University of Minnesota.
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Here's how to ensure video and audio connectivity in Google Hangouts using the Mac Mini and Logitech BCC950 "eye stalk" webcam in the 202 Johnston Hall conference room.
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Here's how to ensure video and audio connectivity in Google Hangouts using the Mac Mini and Logitech BCC950 "eye stalk" webcam in the 202 Johnston Hall conference room.
When importing contacts into a data extension or list, you will be required to specify a unique subscriber key to identify the recipient within Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
Each University of Minnesota business unit that uses Salesforce Marketing Cloud has designated a key person.
If you already use Salesforce Marketing Cloud and you want access to another busin
Tracked links in your Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SMC) emails go to SMC, and are redirected to your intended URL. These SMC links will eventually expire, after which they will redirect to a specified Redirect URL.
To help you conform with legal and policy requirements and save you time, University Relations has created footers and shared them with you in Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
Google Meet may be a good option for alternative instruction. However, there are a few technical considerations to be aware of when evaluating Google Hangouts Meet.
Google Meet may be a good option for alternative instruction. However, there are a few technical considerations to be aware of when evaluating Google Hangouts Meet.
When entering into a contract with Zoom, the University's Office of Information Technology ensured full review of the contract terms and conditions and Zoom's privacy policy.
Use this feature if you want to let someone else host a meeting or webinar that you have scheduled. This may be helpful if you are out of the office or late to your meeting or webinar.
You do not need a webcam in order to join a Zoom meeting or webinar.
However, without a webcam, you will not be able to enable video. Things you will still be able to do include:
The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that protects the privacy of student education records and personally identifying information.
Zoom can change the way you teach and interact with learners, by giving you the ability to hold online office hours with learners anywhere in the world on a one-time or recurring basis.
The host key is a 6-digit PIN tied to your Zoom account. It is not meeting-specific. You can use your host key to claim host privileges in the following circumstances:
Zoom has international dial-in numbers available for an extensive and growing list of countries throughout the world. Participants from abroad can join UMN-hosted Zoom meetings or webinars via telephone if they cannot
The HCC, or Health Care Component, is a group of faculty, students, or staff who work closely with private health information and are subject to a Business Associates Agreement (BAA) with Zoom to ensure HIPAA complian
University of Minnesota students, staff, faculty, departmental, and sponsored accounts can livestream from Zoom meetings or webinars to Youtube Live and other streaming services.
The University of Minnesota's Zoom web conferencing includes a feature that uses automatic transcription to turn the spoken word into text, in real-time.
As the host or co-host in a meeting, you can manage your participants, including muting and unmuting participants to manage background noise and distractions.
If you are hosting a webinar and want attendees to take a survey or be taken to a specific webpage afterward, you can create a survey from within the Zoom Portal, or you can share a survey you create on another platfo
If you want other meeting attendees to see what you are working on, you can share your screen by selecting the Share Screen button in the Zoom menu bar.
Synchronous class sessions, in which everyone logs in to a web conferencing system at a pre-scheduled time, are one way to create engagement and foster community in your fully online courses.
The Waiting Room feature in Zoom allows the meeting host to control when a participant joins the meeting. Waiting rooms have additional customization features available in the Zoom Portal.
A/B testing is a method of market testing in which you send two versions (Condition A and Condition B) of your communication to two test audiences from your subscriber list.
A guide from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concerning the CAN-SPAM Act, which sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have you stop ema
This vendor-supplied help article details the steps required to create a new data extension for storing subscriber data within Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
This vendor-supplied help article explains how to create templates using the either the Template Editor or the Content Builder in Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
You can easily communicate with your family and friends through Hangouts in Gmail. You can make phone calls, have face-to-face video calls, and share photos.
Out of office or vacation replyIf you'll be away from your Gmail account, like on a vacation or without access to the Internet, you can set up a vacation responder to automatically notify people that you won'
This vendor-supplied help article details the steps required to import new subscriber data into an existing data extension within Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
ipHouse offers discounted dialup and DSL Internet service, each in two varieties. The first provides connectivity to the Internet. The second also includes e-mail, personal Web page, and other features.
A full account of all the legal requirements and policy guidelines for mass email sent from users of Salesforce Marketing Cloud at the University of Minnesota. The document is owned by University Relations.
A full account of all the legal requirements and policy guidelines for mass email sent from users of Salesforce Marketing Cloud at the University of Minnesota. The document is owned by University Relations.
The data extension details section is where you can view statistics about the data extension and change properties of the data extension.To access data extension properties, follow these steps:
This site, maintained by University Relations (URelations), provides downloadable files containing offical University of Minnesota logos, wordmarks ("Driven to Discover"), seals, and other official branding elements s
Maintained by University Relations (URelations), this site contains guidelines for using the official UMN Branded Template in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, as well as the raw HTML code for use in any HTML email authorin
Maintained by University Relations (URelations), this site contains guidelines for using the official UMN Branded Template in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, as well as the raw HTML code for use in any HTML email authorin
University Relation's web page on University of Minnesota web standards, and usability and accessibility related to the Univesity of Minnesota web templates.
This site, maintained by University Relations (URelations), provides downloadable images for social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+; as well as common icons for RSS feeds and
This document provides conceptual and procedural information about the reporting functionality available in the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Reports provide you aggregated information about your subscribers, sends, and
The University of Minnesota Marketing Cloud Users Google Group is a systemwide resource for anyone using Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SMC) at the University of Minnesota.
This screen-capture video walkthrough by Honey VanDerVenter will illustrate how to send a mass email message from Salesforce Marketing Cloud when you need to import subscriber data from a spreadsheet document (E
This screen-capture video walkthrough by Honey VanDerVenter will illustrate how to send a mass email message from Salesforce Marketing Cloud when utilizing Donor Management System (DMS) data extensions from the Univer
This screen-capture video walkthrough by Honey VanDerVenter will illustrate how to send a mass email message from Salesforce Marketing Cloud to a UMN internal LISTSERV mailing list.
Send Preview is a rendering of an email as it will be sent to a recipient. After the initial preview, you can proceed through the rest of the recipients on the list to see the preview for each.
This vendor-supplied help article details the various tabs and functionality of the Tracking Workspace.The tracking workspace contains the follow tabs:
The University of Minnesota's official privacy statement. This page is a required link in the footer of any mass email that is sent from the University to an external audience.
University of Minnesota instructors can create Google course groups for their classes based on data in the U of M PeopleSoft directory. The membership in these groups is synchronized twice daily.
The validate functionality checks your email message for common issues that could prevent your email from being sent. Run validate on your email and make corrections before starting any sending process.
OIT provides temporary voice, network, and WiFi services for events on campus. On-site technician support is also available during events upon request.
Before Your Meeting or Webinar
Set up Registration.
For public events, set up a Zoom registration page. People with a valid email will receive an email with the link to the event.
This self-help guide will help anyone who presents at, schedules, or supports online meetings and webinars through Zoom. To learn more about using Zoom for online office hours or smaller meetings, check out