Big things planned for the spring!
We’re gearing up for a momentous spring and summer! To kick it off, we’re bringing you new content providers, new content libraries, new editing capabilities, and new ways to manage and promote career content within your virtual career center! Before we dive into what we have planned for May, let’s start with a quick recap of the highlights from April.
If you have questions on anything mentioned below, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at support@gouconnect.com!
April Recap
An all new external content library, bringing experiential learning content to your fingertips!
We ran with the positive feedback we received from you all on the external blog library, and extended it to our Experiences content as well! You can now access free, high quality experiential learning content from a growing list of content providers straight from the Experiences section of your dashboard. Read more below to see how you can publish this content and what it looks like to your students on the front-end!
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Introduced a brand new content provider, Forage!
We’re so excited to welcome Forage as the first provider within our new experiential learning content library! Forage produces high-quality job simulations in partnership with their vast network of employer partners, which are completely free, and help students gain real-world skills and exposure to employers with the flexibility that can fit into anyone’s schedule. Read more about the integration and Forage below, or watch the recording from our recent webinar, co-hosted with Forage to see what these experiences look like for students!
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You now have the option to display videos as the featured content on your homepage!
We’ve added videos to the list of content types you can choose to feature on your homepage! Now, choose from videos, employers, resources, blog posts, or outcome data (if you have the Outcome Data Visualization module) as the first type of content to feature on your homepage. Change it up whenever you want something new! You can choose which content you want to feature at any time.
Your resource export reports now include links to the resources themselves.
For many of us, spring means spring cleaning. Within the context of uConnect, for many of you we’ve heard that this means cleaning up your resource library and ensuring that all the tools and guides are up to date and relevant for your students. To help with that, we’ve included the actual links to your resources within the exportable file, to make it easy for you to view the live resource as you work through the file and make a plan to update, keep, or delete any existing content. To view this report, navigate to Publish > Resources and then scroll to the bottom and click Export Resources. The URLs for each resource will now be visible in that report alongside the title, author, publish date, tagged communities and categories, status (published, draft, etc.), and resource type (external, or internal). Let us know if you have questions!
Upcoming + Continued Priorities for May
We’re expanding the Block editor to bring more flexibility and formatting options to your platform!
We’re upgrading our text editing tools to utilize the highly flexible Block editor technology. This upgrade allows you to format and style your content with much more control and stylistic control, to improve your editing experience, and to build more visually engaging posts for your students and stakeholders! Right now, you can opt in to start using this upgrade on your blog content and custom pages. Over the spring, we’ll be working to extend the editor to your communities and resource content.
If you don’t currently have the block editor enabled for Custom Pages or Blogs (or aren’t sure), and you’d like to enable it, reach out to us at support@gouconnect.com! It’s completely free, and included as we work to add continuously evolving value to your virtual career center.
We’re working on making the Guest Contributor Portal more supportive of your work.
To ensure that you’re receiving the most high-impact, meaningful community expertise and nothing more, we’re building the ability to block specific email addresses from submitting posts within your guest contributor portal, to allow you to focus on the content you want, and nothing that you don’t.
We’re building the ability to restrict content based on end-user profile attributes!
It’s in progress! With this new release, you’ll be able to set specific visibility permissions for individual pieces of content, based on SSO authentication, or individual profile settings! Now, you can easily host all your resources – for faculty, students, and more – all within uConnect, without needing to lock your entire site.
We’re automating the removal of mentors who want to keep their profiles private.
Alumni privacy is a top priority for us, so we’re making it easier than ever for Alumni to opt-out of our technical integrations and keep their profiles private. If you use one of our mentor integrations (Firsthand, PeopleGrove, or Graduway) and have questions on this, please let us know at support@gouconnect.com!
