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Overview

The Communication Event menu in Paradigm is intended to send bulk communications to students or selected recipients with information regarding their study at your business or institution. The body of your email template can be personalised using some of the merge fields that we made available, and emails can contain attachments to provide a more detailed, personalised, and dynamic data to be included in the report/letter attachment. This knowledge article will guide you on how to send bulk communications to a bulk list of students/recipients with or without attachments.

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title1. Create the Bulk List of Students as Recipients to the Communication Event

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Create the Bulk List of Students as Recipients to the Communication Event


1. There are three ways to create the bulk list of students that you want to be the recipients of the communication event, you have the option to choose either of these three possible ways in creating your bulk list:

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) Search Course screen (Student > Search Course)

You can search for students via this screen by Course Name, Enrolment Status, Institution, Funding Type, Start and End Date, Contact Mode and Hours, Order By, and Agent.

Refer to the instructions on this workflow How to ADD a List of Students to a Bulk List.

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) Upload Bulk List screen (Student > Upload Bulk List)

Upload a list from a CSV Source File. You can use this option if you have an existing (valid with all the required fields matching to Paradigm) CSV file with a list of students that you want to send the communication event to.

Refer to the instructions on this workflow Student > Upload Bulk List.

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) Report Builder screen (Report > Report Builder)

If you want to build a list of students to send your communication event using your existing saved report or generate a new report with your own criteria / conditions, then this is the best way for you to create the bulk list.

Refer to the instructions on this workflow Report Builder > Bulk Student Select.

2. After creating your bulk list, proceed to the

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Save a New Communication Event to Selected Recipientsinstructions below to save a new communication for the currently loaded (bulk list) students.

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title4. Send Bulk Communications WITHOUT Attachments to the Bulk List of Students/Recipients

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Send Bulk Communications WITHOUT Attachments


NOTE: The instructions below assume that you have already followed the

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Create the Bulk List of Students as Recipients to the Communication Event

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Save a New Communication Event to Selected Recipients

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After clicking the SAVE NEW COMMUNICATIONS FOR LOADED STUDENTS button, it will display all the students under the COMMUNICATION EVENT BULK LIST section with all details that you’ve filled out from
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Select all the students on the list by clicking on the checkbox header section. Remove the student from the list by removing the checkmark on the checkbox against the student or by clicking on the REMOVE button.

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Click the EMAIL SELECTED RECIPIENTS button. The emails have now been sent. Check the statuses of the sent emails to check if any failed sending under the Status column. These will need to be either resent or posted.

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Video Tutorial

The video tutorial below will guide you on how to send bulk communication emails with CANs attachment.

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