Note that I suspect Students Union Web sites will be doing this.
For example see the Bath Students Union Web site at:
https://www.bathstudent.com/
Click on the Sign-Up link and you'll find:
e-Mail & Mobile:
Step 4
We would like to supply you with information that may be of interest to you
regarding BUSU events, newsletters, advice, promotions and advertisements
including your membership and activities of student activities (e.g. clubs
and societies) you personally join. If you would like to receive such
information by e-mail and/or text message then please complete your details
and then select your areas of interests from the list below(Step 5).
Mobile phone number
Re-type Mobile phone number
E-Mail - University account
Re-type E-Mail
Other E-Mail
Or Other (type full address)
If you have web-based email which you would like to access from here, please
give the web address or choose from the list below.
Choose a provider
-- Or --
Type Web-mail URL
Andrew (Savory), do you still have links with this community? Do you know
how widespread such services are and what the takeup is like?
Brian
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Brian Kelly
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Managing an institutional web site
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adrian Tribe
> Sent: 13 July 2005 10:48
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: SMS (was RE: Have you considered Podcasting?)
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> <snip>
> >
> > I'd be interested in knowing how permission is handled with
> this: do
> > you provide the option to opt-out? Do you make it part of
> the terms of
> > being a registered student that they provide mobile numbers
> and accept
> > messages from the university?
>
> For the system we're going live with in the autumn we're
> deliberately going for student self-subscription - i.e.
> opt-in. The students in the relevant school will be told
> that they can subscribe to a free text alert service for last
> minute news about their module(s) by texting 'bbk alert
> [module code] [their name]' to a specific short code number.
> The incoming text is redirected to a perl script at our end
> by the SMS gateway provider, and all the subscription info is
> maintained by the School Administrators via a simple web
> interface. When an alert is sent, a list of those it has
> been sent to is shown to the administrator, together with
> info (from our student records system, SITS) that indicates
> how many other students need to be contacted via another
> means (the main use of the system will be to notify students
> of cancelled lectures, which in Birkbeck's case is important,
> as people travel into central London specifically to attend
> their evening lectures and don't want a wasted trip).
>
> At the moment if a student provides a mobile number when they
> enrol, it does get recorded in SITS (I think!), but AFAIK is
> not maintained, and at the moment we haven't rolled out SITS
> eVision 'portal' that would enable the students to maintain
> this record for themselves to keep the mobile number up to
> date. So at the moment all the SMS related things we're
> looking at are not at an institution-wide level, and are very
> likely to be on an opt-in basis.
>
> Best wishes,
> Adrian
>
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