I often make updates or add something new to my educational website. Is there a way of NOTIFYING my students that there is something new on my site that they should check besides me sending out an email to each kid telling them “hey, go check out this new thing.” I have also tried an area on the site to tell new stuff but of course they would have to be there already to see this.
is this RSS feed??? - i know nothing about this.
or is there some other unique system?
Your students visit your page once and subscribe (submit their email). Then when post a new article, an excerpt is sent to them automatically - into their email app or rss reader.
ok - i get it a little more- but what if I do not have anew article or a blog or anything like that but just added a new feature or something to the site?
What will they see and will they get an email telling them to then go to another site to see it?
You might consider mailchimp. That would give you and them a very simple solution:
Its free.
Frank H.
On Mar 17, 2012, at 11:20 PM, Hoffman wrote:
ok - i get it a little more- but what if I do not have anew article or a blog or anything like that but just added a new feature or something to the site?
What will they see and will they get an email telling them to then go to another site to see it?
Right now- I have to go into my mail, select all students, create a subject line, type an email and send out.
You can use Address book to manage this. Create a new Group in Address book with your Students addresses and you can send 1 email to the whole group without having to select each one individually.
Barry, in Address book it is very easy to set up a student group (it sounds like you have done that already)
Let’s say you’ve called it “students2012”.
All you need to do is type “students2012” in your mail BCC window and mail will do the rest.
No selection, no cut and paste.
You will have to format your message yourself of course, but that doesn’t sound like a lot of effort, as you can simply clip or cut and paste directly from the changed part of your website or “send contents of page” directly from Safari.
You are correct and I had overlooked the fact that emails that do not have any visible recipients are at risk of being innocent victims of spam filters!
With an “undisclosed recipients” list there MAY be a need for the people (or at least some of them) to ensure the sender is in their own contacts list or to mark the sender on a white list.
Since this is effectively what you are doing at the moment anyway Barry, I suspect you aren’t having any troubles.