Reach your entire campus community with the power of your personal voice.

The Connect-EDservice is an industry leading time-based notification system designed to help improve enrollment, increase involvement, and facilitate campus connections through improved communication.  Connect-ED has been specifically designed to meet the needs of Higher Education institutions and offers a bundled set of community outreach, urgent communication, and survey notification tools via voice, email, SMS, and other text-receiving devices.

Hundreds of higher education institutions are using Connect-ED to drive their campus communications strategy.  Clients utilize the technology to communicate with all or part of their campus community regarding;

  • Urgent Response and Communication:  campus closures, flu outbreaks, major catastrophe or evacuations
  • Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning: cyber security threats, virus outbreaks, proactive Helpdesk communication or technology outages
  • Enrollment Management: admissions, financial aid, registration, retention, counseling and career advisory

» Mass notification made easy.  As a fully hosted and managed web-based application, the Connect-ED service provides you with a powerful, easy-to-use suite of time-based mass notification solutions.

  • Quickly and easily record and send notifications to thousands of people in minutes  
  • No additional software, hardware or phone lines
  • Unlimited usage for one fixed annual fee
  • Comprehensive reporting

» One cost effective cross institutional communications solution.  Scalable and easily adaptable to any communications plan, the Connect-ED service is the best solution for time-sensitive notification and strategic, ongoing communication with students, parents, faculty and staff.

  • Unlimited usage for a fixed annual fee
  • Ability to quickly and easily manage and segment the campus population 
  • Survey students, faculty and staff using Single Survey

» A proven and reliable multi-modal messaging solution.  Six years of proven experience with high volume, time-sensitive message delivery across a range of devices.

  • Send messages to recipients' landlines, cell phones, PDAs/text-based devices, and e-mail accounts 
  • 22,000 active client sites in 46 states and the District of Columbia
  • Contracted capacity with select telcos to send over three million 60-second calls per hour 
  • In 2007, the Connect platform was used to send over 240 million voice messages to landlines and cell phones.

 
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