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Brief overview

Communication Request Sender

It will be sent from the email address that is recorded against the users profile.

Provider record is linked with the student’s course enrolment. Make sure you load the student’s course enrolment first, then you will see Provider option in the drop-down.

Communication Request Recipient

Who the email is going to

Communication name / Email Subject

The subject name / line of the email

Communication Date

Date sent. This date is recorded within the communication event as the sent date.

Communication Type

For Communication Events this is normally set to Email

Communication Status

This will tell you the status of the communication event:

  • Bounced - Receiving Server could not or would not accept the message. 

  • Cancelled - Communication Event Cancelled

  • Closed -

  • Email Opened - Recipient has opened the Message

  • Entered -

  • Failure Sending -

  • In-Progress -

  • Pending -

  • Referred -

  • Resolved -

  • Sent -

  • Unknown Party -

Course Enrolment

The Course of Study the student is enrolled in

Communication Template Message

This option will allow the user to select from pre-written email templates. These can be added to or updated once loaded into the HTML writer.

Communication Description / Email Body

This is where the template will be displayed once loaded. Alternatively this is where the user can write the body of the email to be sent.

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title1. How to send Bulk Communications (With Attachments)
  1. Click on the Search button under Student tab as the first step, to ensure that any previously loaded record is cleared.

  2. Click on the System tab in the side menu

  3. Click on the Edit Time Period option in the side menu

  4. Click on Census Period from the drop down box for the time period type

  5. Click on the Search Time PeriodPeriods button.

  6. Ensure the Census date is correct census date has been correctly recorded for the required current period.

  7. Click on the Reports tab from the side menu.

  8. Click on the Report Builder option from the side menu

  9. Find Scroll to the Saved Report Descriptions section

  10. Click on the Global reports Reports drop box and select a suitable report that your institution has set up to generate a bulk student list if there is one has already existsbeen setup. Click on the Load Report button (Jump to Step 13).

  11. If a suitable report has not yet been setup, in the Base Report Descriptions section, select ‘Student Course Enrolment Details’ as the Base report , and click on the Load Base Report button.

  12. At In the Report Columns section, refer to the above table 1, hold Ctrl key for multiple select the required columnshold the Ctrl key to select multiple columns as required, ensuring that the key fields are included for the type of report you are trying to generate.

  13. Ensure that the Base Report Parameters are correctly set to cover the required units unit enrolment start and end dates and enrolments enrolment status values to produce a list that contains the required students.

  14. Scroll down to the Format Report section. Click the Bulk Student Select radio button 

  15. Click the Produce Report button

  16. Once a This will take some time to run, and will depend on the scope of the list being created. Please wait for the screen to refresh and reload with a list of the students returned by the report.

  17. Once the bulk list of students createdappears, click on the tick box against a list of required students to send communication to for each student who is to receive the communication. You may choose to select all and then deselect specific students from the list, or you may choose to select only specific students from the list.

  18. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Add Selected to List buttonThe Bulk list of students has now been produced. . This may take a few moments to store the list in memory. Please wait for the list to appear.

  19. Click on the Student tab from the side menu.

  20. Click on the Communication Event option in the side menu (Or or click on the Hat icon at the top left hand corner then select of the screen and then click on the Communication option option)

  21. Enter the Communication Name, this becomes which will become the subject of the email, e.g. CAN - Semester 1 2018.

  22. Select the Communication Type, e.g. Email.

  23. Select a Communication Template Message for the body of the email or options to type in the main body of your email.Add

  24. Edit the Communication Description/Email Body field to add in any additional information or updates to the body of the message. You may choose to include options from Table 2 above (each wrapped inside curly braces eg. {email_first_name} {email_last_name} ), or add text that is to appear in the main body of your email.

  25. Set the Communication Status to Sent from the drop down menu.

  26. Click the Save New Communications for Loaded Students button.

  27. Click the Reports tab from the side menu

  28. Click on the Letters option from the side menu

  29. Scroll to the Commonwealth Assistance Notice report and click the Get Report button

  30. Check the parameters in the report section and click the Create report Report for Communication Events button. This will take some time to complete, while each report is generated individually. The progress bar provides an indication of the rate of progress.

  31. Click on the Page icon to check the CANS CAN notices are for the correct period and are attached for the correct person for a few of the records.

  32. Click on the tick boxes for the ones that are to be sent. 

  33. Click on the Email Selected Recipients with Attachments button. This will take time to complete.

  34. The Emails emails have now been sent. 

  35. Check the Statuses status of the sent emails to check if any failed sendingverify whether any have not been successfully sent. These will need to be either resent or posted.

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