In light of recent circumstances related to COVID-19 campus closures and social distancing requirements, we've decided to make some tools available to you at no additional cost to better facilitate your student communication needs:

We've enabled the home page customization feature to post announcements and customize the first thing users see upon login.
This feature offers great ways to help schools get the message out and create a virtual communication hub as operations are being shifted online.

As the global situation evolves, we’re working hard to generate new, relevant content in our webinars, blog, and updated help topics. We are also planning to reschedule the in-person Rendez-Vous User Conference for later this year in tandem with another conference. We are looking forward to having you join us, learn from the team and even more importantly, to connect with each other as members of the CampusGroups family.

Are you looking for more ideas on leveraging CampusGroups to help keep students connected, virtually engaged and efficiently manage online programming? You already have many tools in your arsenal - home page customization, virtual meetings, online attendance tracking, tracks & checklists and many more! Check out our latest blog posts:

We understand how difficult this transition period is, and we're here to support and help you. Whether you have more immediate needs and want to connect with us ASAP, or if you still need time to adjust to your new daily reality, please know the CampusGroups team is here for you and your school and will work with you to build and maintain a strong community!

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Key Updates

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1) ADD ONLINE MEETING LINKS TO YOUR EVENTS

There is a new option when creating your event in the "where" section allowing you to choose Video Conference, add the link and choose the app you will be using.

To protect your privacy and ensure greater security, we automatically switch your event to "Location can only be seen by users who have registered" when you post a video conferencing link.

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2) SET AN EVENT LOCATION LATITUDE & LONGITUDE

Many schools requested the ability to give an exact location of an event by adding latitude and longitude instead of an address. This allows you to provide an exact meeting point location when you don’t have an exact address (e.g., sporting event, concert or festival).

You can easily enter latitude and longitude when you create an event, app or upload sessions so there’s no need to add manually for each event.

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3) REVAMPED CUSTOM OFFICER POSITIONS

New ways to manage custom positions for officers! Create a new position and then select it from a dropdown menu. This allows you to track when a person was given the position, when the position was created and who assigned it. Officers can go to Members Listing to assign positions to members.

You can also create positions for Members and track when a position is ending.

The goal of this new feature is to create greater reporting capabilities and to display more precise data on our Co-Curricular Transcript.

4) NEW EVENT REGISTRATION DISPLAY LOGIC

It is now possible to only show a particular registration option when another option is selected. This is a useful way for officers to make sure people select one type of ticket (such as a paid or member ticket) in order to also select another type of ticket (such as a free or non-member ticket option). Without selecting the first type of ticket, the other ticket type will not be displayed.

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5) CUSTOM FIELDS VISIBILITY

It is now possible to configure Member Custom Fields to be visible to specific users: to officers only, to officers and each member, or to all members of the group.

Also, the Member Customer Fields which are set as "public" will be displayed under the Members section of the Group page. This is a fantastic way to enrich the public profile of your members based on what matters to your group.

6) MY INVOLVEMENT MENU

We have added a new menu on the home page called My Involvement. It gives quick access for users to see their Points, Badges, Service Hours and Co-Curricular Transcripts. We also added the total points a user has earned on their profile pop-up and profile menu. Additionally, we grouped some of the home menu options together under More (My Inbox, Payments, Meetings and Resume) in order for the menu to be less overwhelming and easier to navigate.

7) EDIT THE EVENT TAGS OF SEVERAL EVENTS SIMULTANEOUSLY

School administrators can now tag several events at the same time. For example, you might want to create a Canceled Event tag in order to tag all events canceled due to COVID-19 in the Administration section. These tags also allow events to be filterable, sortable, accessible and visible by students.

8) ADVANCED FILTERING LOGICS

New advanced logic filtering allows you to combine selected category and admin tags. For example, you can search for all groups with both community AND student council tags (not just community OR student council tags). Or, when a survey is approved, you might add an Approved tag to the survey submission as a way to filter for all the surveys that were not approved with the new “Does not contain” filter.

9) SEND APPROVAL FORM FOR RECURRING EVENTS

When you create a recurring event, by default you only have to approve the main event. However, some schools need to approve each event one by one (for example, approval might depend on the time and the room that was selected each time). For this need, we have created a new setting to allow administrators to approve each recurring event one by one and not all of them at the same time.

Please contact us if you would like to learn more or to activate thIs feature.

What else is new?

10) Group Officers can once again be allowed to create mobile apps.

11) You can now search group re-registration form answers by group name.

12) We now integrate with SecurePay and have added Stripe as a supported payment gateway on the platform.

13) When you create a Service Hour for yourself, an officer or administrator needs to verify it, so we've created the ability for the requestor and approver to easily communicate with each other.

14) For increased visibility of your data, we added the number of budget requests in pending approval under the Budgets module of the Administration section.

15) We are now allowing hosts to take notes in the My Meetings section. These notes will be displayed in the member profile of the user hosting the program.

16) A new report showing users' points earned is now available under Admin > Engagement > User Leaderboard.

17) Students and administrators can now easily communicate about budget requests to discuss steps needed for approval (and receive notification emails when a message is sent).

18) We've added rss_survey_submissions and rss_surveys to API doc page.

19) CampusGroups makes it easy for you identify students under 21 years of age. For schools in countries with different age restrictions, it is now possible to identify students under 18.

20) Workflow approvers can now see an event even if the event has not yet been approved.

Interested in learning more about CampusGroups? Please do not hesitate to contact us for a demo to see how our solution can help your community connect, engage and succeed!

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