Updates of the week (Mar 23rd)

Here are the new improvements to come and the progress of our different projects for this week:

Design:

• School feed design is progressing with the implementation of a new Event Post including easy ways to RSVP and to download the event to your calendar.
• We had our final stage of the new Home page ("News" page) design as well this week.

Improvements & new features:

• We have a new RSS feed with the list of public events, additional data and filtering options (please contact our support if you need to use it!)
• We also developed a new Score Card with 3 new statistic reports: "Group email, membership, collected fees and event stats sorted by group", "Event registrations by group" and "Membership and event stats by type of user".

Performance:

• We improved on the email delays alerts.
• On the performance front, we are currently migrating our database to a larger server.

Mobile App:

• We are now able to keep users logged on. Plus, we are progressing on the design of the news feed and we are displaying a splash page while the application is loading. Go live in beta is planned for end of April.

Thanks and have a great week end!!!

Updates of the week (Mar 16th)

Here are the new improvements to come and the progress of our different projects for this week:

Mobile App:

• On our new Mobile App, we completed the school feed module and are now able to skin the application with the colors of CampusGroups.
• The Mobile App will be available in beta end of April for a selected number of users across all schools.

Design:

• This week, we have made some progress on the re-design of CampusGroups around our photos module, the navigation and the site-wide search box.
• The school feed's design has been modified and is currently being implemented.
• We also updated the new News Page (current Home page) with additional widgets.

Performance:

• On the performance improvement front, we found a few more slow queries which we fixed this week. We also tuned our mySQL server and continued to monitor slow pages.

Bug fixes:

• We fixed the resizing of photos (when a user wants to include a photo in a new blog post).
• We fixed a few bugs on the new photos slider.

Thanks and have a great week end!!!

Mobile Web App - Preview on the Inbox module

Here is a quick update on the development of our new Mobile Web App.

The screenshots below show the Inbox module of the application allowing a logged user to access group emails.

We will get you posted on the development of each module. We plan to release at the end of April and we would be glad to get your feedback!  

Updates of the week (Mar 9th)

Here are the new improvements to come and the progress of our different projects:

• We are working on a new site-wide search box (to go live end of April).

We will soon reduce the school feed status bar. Here is a quick preview: 

We are also working on redesigning our main school Home page.

We are designing more Web site themes for MBA student clubs, here is a preview of the NYU Stern GMA site:

• We are using New Relic to profile the performance of CampusGroups. We will use Apdex as an industry standard for measuring the satisfaction of a user of an application or service.

Thanks and have a great week end!

Updates of the week (March 2nd)

Here are new improvements and a few bug fixes for this week (all these changes will be pushed to all servers next Friday).

Improvements & new features:

• Photos: We upgraded the photo slider to allow easier/faster navigation.

Feed: You can now watch a YouTube video from the feed. To post a video, just insert the YouTube video link into the "Link" field of the post and click post.

Feed: We now have just 1 button to upload one or several photos to the feed.   

Bug fixes:

• Members: The "Import members" was fixed and will work fine now.  

Photos: You can now add or delete tags assigned to a photo from the slider. Besides, there are no more issues when viewing photos from the feed.

Events: When you delete a flyer associated to an event, the photo does not appear next to the event anymore.  

Events: You can now see the list of attendees for an event.   

Thanks and have a great week end!!!

Customer Support - Success Stories (Feb 29th)

It is always a pleasure to read great feedback from happy users. Here are a few emails which made us smile over the past few weeks:

Jacqueline, school administrator at USC Marshall School of Business, sent this email to all student leaders:
"It’s hard to believe that a full semester has passed since we launched Student Organizations for USC Marshall using the CampusGroups platform. We are so excited to see your creativity and collaboration at work, and hope you've found this new system to be beneficial to you and your membership. We believe this platform shift has been both a positive change and a rousing success."

As we trained Lindsay from NYU Stern School of Business on Exchange Students management:
"Thank you for speaking with me today; it was very insightful, and I look forward to using Campus Groups to communicate with students."

"Awesome. Thanks! " - From Diana, school administrator at NYU Stern School of Business

As we updated an NYU Stern School of Business custom assessment:
"Thanks so much for working on the queries and getting our tool in such great shape." - Allison

As Rhonda (administrator at Cornell University Johnson School of Business), tested the Auto-Promotion feature of the CampusGroups Events module:
"Our users have begun using CG for our workshop registrations, and the Auto-Promotion feature will be very helpful when they hit their caps. We are getting good feedback from students that the registration process is better than the old one!"

"Thank you - this will be helpful." Alana from Kellogg School of Management

As we helped Lee, student leader at NYU Stern School of Business, on the design of the Stern Private Equity Conference Website: http://nyustern.campusgroups.com/sternpeconference/
"Thank you so much for this.  The site looks great.  We very much appreciate your quick turnaround and hard work."

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

The CG Support Team

Updates of the week (Feb 24th)

Here are the new improvements for this week (all these changes will be pushed to all servers next Friday).

Improvements and new features:

• Groups: In addition to being able to access the list of all the groups of your school by clicking on "Join groups", you can now also manage the groups you are an officer of from the "Groups" menu.  

Members: If an officer does not have the permission to manage members, the "Edit" link in the "Membership" section does not appear anymore.   

Groups: On the list of groups, the names of the groups are now linking to group websites. 

Members: You can now see which member is an officer and what is his/her position in the list of members.   

Email: When you upload an attachment in an email from the "Files Already Uploaded" section, only the name of the file appears in the dropdown list and in the email.

Thanks and have a good week end!!!

Updates of the week (Feb 17th)

Here are the new improvements and few bug fixes for this week (all these changes will be pushed to all servers next Friday).

Improvements & new features:

• Photos: When you view your photos, it is now possible to navigate from one to another just by sliding the scrollbar and clicking on the preview photos of the bottom menu.    

My inbox: The Emails display has changed. The blue background now takes all the space and turns to white when the email has been opened.  

My inbox: You can now delete an email from your mailbox, just by clicking on the cross on the top right of the email.  

Support: In order to avoid any confusion, we have taken the additional "Email us" link from the Contact Us section of our Support Center.

Bug fixes:

• Control Panel: When you download the events via the "All events" link, all events between the 2 dates selected are now in the excel file. We deleted the "Number of attendees" column in the excel file because it was not used.
• Photos: When you view the untagged photos in the Photos Album space, you now see just the untagged photos not every photos (tagged and untagged) from your account.   
• Emails: In the "Check live email delivery status" page, we deleted some test information which had been left there by mistake.   

Thanks and have a great week end!!!