Regroup streamlines Lee-related information
As promised, Regroup, Lee’s new multifaceted notification system, replaced Just ReLEEsed and Everyone Mail forms of communication across campus in late fall 2011.
“We are trying to make our email
more relevant to a broader stroke of the campus,” Morgan Adams, IT project manager, said.
Now that the spring semester is in full swing, Regroup notifications are showing up daily in staff and student email accounts. Unlike the former methods of notification that were recently done away with, Regroup actually allows the recipients to control how notifications end up in their inbox.
“The whole goal of Regroup is to provide an avenue for everyone to determine how they want to be communicated to,” Director of IT Systems Nate Tucker said.
Regroup funnels all Lee-related messages and announcements into a central source that distributes the information, but the program also allows for individualization by offering the option to receive notifications that are specific to a group or club on campus.
To procure the benefits of this new system, virtually any member of the Lee community can log in to leeuniversity.regroup.com with their Lee user ID and password. From there, a user can choose the groups that they want to subscribe to, such as the athletics group and lost and found.
Lee students and staff do not only receive the information that is distributed through the site, but users of Regroup can create their own groups and post their own notifications as well.
Every request for a post must go through an approval process, and announcements deemed as Lee-related or Lee-sponsored are disseminated throughout a group or throughout the campus, depending on the what the sender prefers. Likewise, messages can be sent to staff only, students only or both.
Another much-appreciated perk of the new Regroup system is that it allows users to decide if they want to receive notifications as they are posted, or if they would rather receive them in a daily digest of information. This gives the user even more control of their inbox.
“Instead of multiple emails, Regroup is one mainstream way to communicate to the staff and students,” Adams said.
Regroup offers possibilities of connecting user notifications to the social media world via Facebook and Twitter, and it also serves as Lee’s emergency text message alert system.