e-txt Education Testimonials

“We have been using e-txt™ for about 8 months with its main aim being improved communication with 6th form students. We have piloted the implementation with about 45 year 12 and 13 students studying ICT, and their parents.

These were grouped by the course studied and year of study, allowing texts to be sent to individuals or groups of students/parents easily.
 
Typical types of usage are:

-          to alert parent to upcoming coursework submission dates

-          to let students know of lesson/room changes

-          to remind students of hand in dates

-          to get feedback from students on brief surveys

-          to allow students to communicate information back to teachers

We’ve found a number of benefits which make this a preferred method of communication over email in some circumstances:

-          speed of communication

-          availability of communication (students check their texts far more frequently than their emails)

-          ability of students to communicate with teachers without revealing the teachers’ personal mobile numbers

-          parental involvement

Parents and students seem very supportive and costs of texting back have not been an issue.“

Stuart Firth
St. Joseph’s College

“e-txt™ is an utterly brilliant tool we use to communicate with our ‘harder to get hold of’ students. Working in sandwich placements, and being the middle woman between student and employer, you would think that they would want to respond to your emails/pick up the phone when you try to get in touch about employers / interviews. However, this is not always the case….luckily help is at hand in the form of e-txt™; even when students don’t check their emails or pick up their phones, we know they will always pick up a text. Thanks for providing this great communication tool!”

Jenny Perreau
Placement and Employment Administrator
Nottingham Trent University

“We use e-txt™ to contact clients when we are cancelling or rescheduling classes. All students at our colleges have mobile phones and this is the easiest way to contact them at short notice. We also use the system for social event updates, party invites and college news.”

Luke Simmons
Malvern House International

Southampton Solent University’s Study Assistance and Disability Support department offers a free and confidential service available to students enrolled at Southampton Solent University

“We always preferred our students to use the university email which we have set up for them”, “but students often prefer to use their own internet email addresses instead and that can be an unreliable means of contacting them.  Leaving messages on voicemail could be equally unreliable if they do not check their mailbox for some time.

Texting gets straight to them and we get a better response than before, with the text facility being fully integrated into our database system we can both trigger and record contacts automatically.
The text messaging software certainly gives us what we need within Support Services, and in time other departments could follow suit.

People around the campus sound quite warm about using text messages - depending on its success at the beginning of the new academic year.  If it works well then it could spin-out into other departments.  I’m sure the library would be keen on a service to let students know when reserved books are available or other books are overdue!” 

John Craig, Southhampton Solent University