Bulk messaging for campus-wide announcements

Purpose

1. Automate dissemination of urgent campus alerts, event reminders, academic deadlines, policy changes, and newsletters to students, staff, and faculty across various channels.

2. Automatable central distribution ensures all recipients get timely, consistent, and trackable information for streamlined campus-wide engagement and operational efficiency.

3. Reduces manual workload, enables scheduled bulk messaging, and empowers targeted communications to segmented university groups.

Trigger Conditions

1. New announcement entry in campus admin portal.

2. Calendar event with alert flag set for bulk notification.

3. Received directive from university leadership for urgent communication.

4. Change in COVID-19 protocols or emergency procedures.

5. Weekly scheduled digest automation initiation.

Platform Variants

1. Twilio SMS

• Feature/Setting: Automate “Messages” API with university sender ID; sample config: Add verified number, configure messaging service SID, use programmable SMS for mass delivery.
  

2. SendGrid

• Feature/Setting: Automated “Mail Send” API; config: Verify sender domain, set up mailing lists, send scheduled bulk HTML/text announcements.
  

3. Amazon SNS

• Feature/Setting: Automate “Publish” calls to SMS, email, and mobile push endpoints; orchestrate via topic subscriptions per audience segment.
  

4. Slack

• Feature/Setting: Use “chat.postMessage” Bot API to automate posting to targeted channels (student/department); schedule/trigger messages with webhooks.
  

5. Microsoft Teams

• Feature/Setting: Automate message delivery via “ChatMessage.Send” Graph API in specific teams or group chats.
  

6. WhatsApp Business API

• Feature/Setting: Automates templated message sending to contact lists; configure webhook events for announcement triggers.
  

7. Facebook Messenger

• Feature/Setting: Automate “Send API” for bulk messages using school’s official Page; batch user segmentation.
  

8. Google Chat

• Feature/Setting: Automated “Spaces.messages.create” to designated chat spaces; configure announcement bot webhook.
  

9. Zoom Chat

• Feature/Setting: Automate via “chat.messages” API to channels; use scheduled announcement delivery.
  

10. Mailgun

• Feature/Setting: “Messages API” configured for automating scheduled, transactional, and bulk campus newsletters.
  

11. Pusher Beams

• Feature/Setting: Push notification APIs for automated mobile notifications to custom campus app users.
  

12. Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)

• Feature/Setting: Automate sending notification payloads to app endpoints; segment by user role/group.
  

13. Discord

• Feature/Setting: Automate “POST /channels/{channel.id}/messages” for bulk posting in server channels.
  

14. Viber

• Feature/Setting: Automate bulk announcements using “Viber Business Messages” API; template and trigger via callback events.
  

15. Telegram Bot

• Feature/Setting: Automate via Bot API “sendMessage” to groups/channels; use scheduled messaging for key dates.
  

16. Salesforce Marketing Cloud

• Feature/Setting: Automate triggered sends using “Transactional Messaging API”; configure audience segments with Data Extensions.
  

17. ActiveCampaign

• Feature/Setting: Automator triggers for campaign launch; configure contact lists, email, and SMS automations.
  

18. HubSpot

• Feature/Setting: Automate “Marketing Email” API for scheduled announcement workflows to segmented lists.
  

19. Zoho Campaigns

• Feature/Setting: Automate via Scheduled Campaigns API, sync campus contacts for repeated announcements.
  

20. Infobip

• Feature/Setting: Automated multi-channel “OMNI” API; bulk SMS/Viber/WhatsApp/Email in a single request per audience.
  

Benefits

1. Automates mass communication, freeing staff from repetitive manual messaging tasks.

2. Automator ensures instant, simultaneous message delivery across multiple platforms.

3. Enables scheduled, recurring, and event-driven campus notifications automatedly.

4. Allows targeted and personalized student/staff groups; supports audit trails and delivery reporting.

5. Automating compliance and data protection via API-level configurations and pre-approved message templates.

6. Enhances responsiveness and campus safety through rapid, automated announcement deployment.