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Please note: This feature is available on the Transform Subscription package, if you are not on the Transform package and are upon request. If you are interested in this feature please check with your Customer Success Manager. our EdSmart Product Operations Support Team via help@edsmart.com.
Also, make sure this feature has been activated within your EdSmart Platform via the configuration screen. For more information on this, click here.
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Enter the text for your Broadcast for the email and SMS. You can click the Preview buttons to check and see how your message will look to recipients. You are restricted in the The number of characters available for the SMS . And is restricted, and if you upload a file, for example your newsletter, you will have fewer characters as we need to reserve space to include the file link. You can directly enter URLs in the SMS box, but this is not recommended as they take up lots of characters, and parents might get confused with multiple links.
When you have finished entering the information click the Next button.
Preview and Queue the Broadcast
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- Total users for whom the Broadcast was sent
- How many, and what proportion of users either view the email or clicked the file link in their SMS
The small bar charts shows:
- The open rate for all the emails you sent
- The click rate for the SMS messages
- What proportion users downloaded the file
It is important to note: EdSmart cannot tell you if someone has 'seen' an SMS text message - this is unlike emails where we know a recipient has viewed the email in their email program.
What we do is We monitor the recipient clicking the link in their SMS. But if you do not upload a file to your Broadcast, there will be no link and thus nothing we can monitor.
However, what is great is that if you are distributing a file - like a newsletter Staff Update - you will have good statistics on just what proportion of parents users you are reaching, and who has accessed the Broadcast and the accompanying file.
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