How to Create Email and Text Templates

How to Access Your Email and Text Templates from the Home Tab

 

Email and Text Templates can be created and stored for communications to students that are regularly used. The Templates are located under the Home Tab > Comm Templates.

home comm template

  1. To add a new Template, click Add Template and enter the Template Name. 
    add template

2.   Next, select if you’d like to make it an Email or Text Template

3.  add the Subject line as you’d like it to appear in the Email 

4. add the body of the email.  Type any dynamic fields and the body of the email. 

You can use the Dynamic fields of “##FirstName##, “##LastName##,” and “##Program##” When composing messages, these fields will auto-fill with the student’s personal information.

5.   Click Save.

 

You new template will be housed in the communication template bank. 

communcation template bank

 

Email templates have a 4,000 character limit.  Any template over 4,000 characters will receive an error message.  Also at this time, no images can be added to the email signature or body of the template. 

 

Important Note!!!

The following texts are considered special text: ‘, @, >, “ “, &, and in your saved template each will have an embedded code.  The student or employee’s email or text will appear as you intended the message to be, however the  embedded code will also appear within the activities section on the student or lead page.  

For example: The apostrophe embedded code may appear like this in the saved template or within the activities section “Kristen&>23/s” The “&23/s” is the embedded code for the special character apostrophe

How to Access your Email and Text Templates on the Student Page 

  1. Your Email and Text templates can then be accessed by going to any Student Page > Send   Message. 
    example send message

2.   To send to multiple recipients, just type the name of the students in the Recipients Box and select the Template you’d like to use. 

template activites box


3.   Click Send. The messages will be stored under the Activities section on each Student’s Page.