Updates of the week

Here are the lastest improvements/features and a few fixes for this week.

Improvements & new features: 

• Website: Great news! You can now create your own Website widget.
  Manage your group, go to Web site > Widgets > Create Widget.
• Website: You can now order your Useful Links the way you want in your Useful Links widget.
• Website: You can now tag your Useful Links and display a sub-set of Useful Links on one page and another sub-set on another page.
• Website: We created a way for you to replace the default Website footer by your own footer and to include subsets of Useful Links.
• Navigation: We added a Useful Links sub-menu under the Website menu.
• API: We added "eventTopicIds" to the rss_events feed.
• API: We created a rss_ groups feed.
• Navigation: We re-ordered the left menus and placed to most used links on top.

Bug fixes: 

• Photos: We fixed the "create a new tag" option under the Photos page.
• Blog:  We fixed the "create a new tag" option under the Blog page.
• Forms: We fixed the "Delete Question" button for questions with a label located above the textbox.
• Navigation: We fixed the display for the Header/Topbar/Footer forms.
• Money: We fixed the Transaction Synchronization page (the checkbox to set a given transaction to COMPLETE was not working properly).

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!

Updates of the week

Here are new improvements/features and few fixes for the week.

Improvements & new features:

• Events: we added an Event Topics selector on the event form (the page you create events on). This will go live on January 15th.
• Events: we created an event uploader via Excel (for school administrators only)
• Events: we will not display the "Event" button on top of the feed anymore, to prevent any possible confusion for officers who are trying to create an event
• Rooms: we created a room uploader via Excel (for school administrators only)
• Performance: we implemented the caching of counters to speed up the counting of elements across all CampusGroups (members, students, events, etc)
• Blog: you can now filter [CONTENT: BLOG_ FULL] by tags
• Blog: a selected list of officers can now receive notifications when someone comments on the blog
• Login: you can now log on from here: http://www.campusgroups.com/login.aspx

Bug fixes:

• Forms: we fixed a bug on the listing of newly submitted event requests
• Website: we fixed a minor display bug on the Edit Javascript entry page.
• Navigation:Top menu was not displayed correctly in IE7, and had more minor display issues with IE8 and IE9. This is now fixed.

Updates of the week

Here are a few fixes and new improvements/features for the week.

Improvements & new features:

• Emails: Great news! You can now choose the HTML editor you want to use to compose emails, edit Web pages and any other HTML content on CampusGroups.  Go to Edit Profile and look for "Switch HTML editor".
• Emails: Email delivery is composed of 4 steps, we increased the speed of step 2 by a factor of 3.  We now have to work on Step 3, remain potential bottle neck when emails are large or contain many RSVP widgets.
• Emails: We improved the Live Email Delivery Status page and now allow you to see how many emails were sent to our outgoing mail server live.
• Events: We now archive deleted events (just in case they get deleted by mistake).
• Navigation: We change the Group Management menu, the Home menu is now called "Dashboard".  The "School Admin" menu is now located on the right.
• Navigation: Schools now have the ability to show/hide any of the default menus on top of CampusGroups.
• Login: Schools now have the option to auto-create new user or not.
• Discussion board: The discussion board is now visible to non-group members.
• Rooms: You can now see the capacity of each room in the listing of rooms, no need to mouse over them anymore.
• Money: New online transaction auditing/synchronization page now available for Finance school administrators.

Bug fixes:

• Events: Some of the calendar ICS feeds were generated on the wrong time zone, we fixed that, and regenerated all ICS calendar feeds.
• Login: The login page displayed "Invalid Password" a second time even after you successfully logged on. This is fixed.
• RSS: The Event RSS feed contained deleted events (we now archive deleted events).This is fixed.
• Groups: We fixed the "Email group officers" button on the Groups page, in some instances emails could not be sent to the groups.

Have a good week end!

Updates of the week

Here are some fixes and new features for this week.

Improvements & new features:

• Added an "hyperlink truncator" to prevent links from pushing the feed content to the right.
• New LCD display with rolling list of events now available
• New dedicated/customizable Support Page for all schools. Please contact us for more information.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed the multi-uploader flash applet for photos
• Fixed time slot reservation drop down in list of attendees

Have a great week end!

Updates of the week

Here are a few fixes and additions to CampusGroups for the week of Thanksgiving!

 Improvements & new features:

• Event organizers can now lookup members by their email address when adding an attendee
•  Added a new Payment Synchronization feature under School Admin

Bug fixes:

•  Fixed the "Ranking" type of questions for surveys
• The top menu now displays well on IE
•  Fixed a bug with "add a transaction" button
•  The Duplicate button for co-hosted events is now deactivated
•  We made adding a new question faster for Surveys & Forms
•  Simplified the publish settings for the Useful Links

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

New Support Center Launched

CampusGroups has launched a new Support Center for our school partners which is powered by Assistly. The support center has a number of articles and tutorials to help answer questions students have about CampusGroups features & capabilities. It also has quick links to our social media and to contact us. 

To use the support center, go to http://support.campusgroups.com  and type the question you have in the search bar, select from the list of artcles available to help you.

The three featured areas in the Support Center include a section for students new to CampusGroups called"Getting Started", a section called "Tutorials" for the more advanced user and the "Q & A" section with real student questions and answers.

Several articles include a video instruction, that takes you step-by-step through the process with visual and audio commenatry.  CampusGroups. If you have an idea for a support video, please send it tofeedback@campusgroups.com.

In addition, if the article is helpful or does not seem to answer your question, please select from the options under the article to let us know which articles need improvement. We value your feedback.

We look forward to adding many more to our library of articles for our school partners. Enjoy the enhanced Support Center!

Optimizing your resources with CampusGroups

Schools can benefit significantly by using CampusGroups and it can help ensure that resources are allocated to the most active student organizations. Most of our schools, can now see the overall engagement by pulling their data summaries.

As many school budgets become tighter, in this global economy, students and administrators want to be certain that resources are used carefully across campus programming. Several of our schools use the rich data stored in CampusGroups to evaluate the effectiveness of their student organizations. 

CampusGroups records the actions students take as group officers & members, as well as, displays the level of activity on the school home pages (see below).  As a result, school administrators can see how organizations rank amongst each other through the course of the year.

Schools using CampusGroups, can take a more in depth look, by pulling detailed reports to see how subscribed student organizations are, as a way to determine funding for future activity. Some schools are even linking their internal processes, like club renewal, to the use of CampusGroups platform. 

Here is a look at the tools available for school administrators in determining level of engagement for their student organizations. Under the "Statistics" section, schools can track officer/member logins, events, emails, RSVP's as well as add graphs for year end reports on engagement.

To learn more about how to pull data from CampusGroups, please visit our Support Center article.

Not a CampusGroups school yet? Request a demo from our team today!