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After all students have been imported into your Regroup Group, Click the “New Message” button at the top of the page.
Select the appropriate message type. For most messages you will select “Ad Hoc Message”. If you have a predefined message saved as a template, you can choose that and access the saved quick messages from the “Select from a Quick Message…” dropdown.
Select the recipients for your message by selecting the group you wish to send to using the “Add a Group” dropdown. You can search for your group then click the checkbox next to your group and continue down the form.
Select the delivery methods you wish to use. For most messages, you will likely choose Email and sometimes Text/SMS as this will provide the largest coverage. If you choose Text/SMS, you should select the Phone Type of “Cell”.
Look over each of the default settings and change them as needed. These should be set up to your specifications when a group is created.
When sending a Text Message, uncheck “Same as Email Message” and “Include Link to Full Post”
Type out your message in both the Email and Text FieldsSelect the sender profile for your group, use the ADHOC Email Sender Profile, or you can define a custom profile. If you want to display the values set in the profile, you can click the “Show Profile Info” link to expand that section and see the values.
Enter the message contents by either choosing a template if you have built one, or entering in the message content in the message body section of the screen. If you are sending via Email and Text/SMS, you can choose to use the same message content by default, or click the “Custom content for each delivery method” checkbox and enter in separate text for each delivery method by clicking on each method in the left pane of the message body window. If you wish use the same content in each method, please check the “Include Lind to Full Post in SMS/Text Message” checkbox so the SMS/Text will not send multiple messages if the text goes over the 160 character limit.
Look over each of the settings and change them as needed.
If you wish to save your message as a template, or schedule for later, select those options at the bottom of the form.
If you schedule a message for later, you can not cannot change the group members until that message has been sent or it may be sent out to an unintended demographic of students.
When you are ready to send out your regroup message, click the preview button and select “Send Test to Myself”
The “Post” button has no confirmation screen and will send out your message to all members of the group. Only click it when you are certain your message is ready to be sent!!!
After you have verified your message is formatted correctly, click the “Post” button and your message will be sent out to your target demographic.