[LIBRARYDIR] texting software

[Guidry, Wade]

Stan (and others who might be interested),

Are you trying to do automated messaging? That is, targeted messaging, based on some regularly run report identifying students with falling grades, low attendance, or some other metric?

If so, I know that the library at Whitman College (Walla Walla) uses the following service for SMS (ie, text) messaging for library purposes:

https://dev.bandwidth.com/

It's not free, but the cost is trivial (they pay $0.35 / month and $0.005 per message).

It does require some basic scripting to use. But something that your IT group could probably do.


Wade Guidry
Library Consortium Services Manager, WACTCLC
wadeg at bigbend.edu<mailto:wadeg at bigbend.edu>
(509) 760-4474
http://www.wactclc.org


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I find myself in charge of our Academic Early Warning system.  One of the issues we face is contacting students to see why they are having problems; that translates to (1) texting them when we have no idea of the cell service carrier, and (2) originating the messaging thru a computer.  We have identified a free solution (textfree.us) which supports that-but it comes with some severe limitations.

Are any of you using something else that allows this function?  And how would your review of the service read?  I suspect it might be best to reply off list, since this may not be of general interest.

Stan Horton
Associate Dean, Library, e-Learning, and Learning Support Services
Grays Harbor College
360-538-4050

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