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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 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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Follow the instructions below in order from STEP 1 to STEP 2

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, and choose between OPTION 1 or OPTION 2 depending on your communication event (IF WITH
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titleSTEP 1. Create the Bulk List of Students as Recipients to the Communication Event

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Create the Bulk List of Students as Recipients of 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

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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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