Colleges: Think About Introducing mailVU for Video Communication

In part two of our back-to-school series, this post will serve as an outline for the ways colleges and universities may integrate mailVU as a communication tool to be used throughout every facet of academic life.

School Marketing – Video messages can be sent to students, alumni, community leaders, employers, governmental entities, and others to help promote the school. With video email being opened two to three times more than text messages, there is a higher chance that an intended recipient will be compelled to view it. If your school would like, a video recording widget may be added to your site which will allow alumni to record testimonial messages detailing how their education has benefited them. Those messages can be included on the site for prospective students to view.

Online Classes/Distance Learning – More often than not, schools today offer some form of online/distance education such as a business or accounting degree online. If your school offers classes to people from all over the state – or all over the world –sending lecture videos via email can prove extremely helpful to students, while the sender maintains control over the content and access. Students may use mailVU’s service to submit video presentations and homework assignments. Video is particularly useful for studies in foreign language, communication, speech, developmental English, and classes that require presentation skills.

Admissions – A video message can be sent to prospective students offering more information about the school and encouraging them to enroll. The college can also ask students to record a brief video introduction, or a video essay outlining their goals as part of their application process. mailVU makes sending video essays easy by allowing our video recorder to be placed right on your website!

Placement – Colleges may send videos to potential employers touting the school’s academic attributes and student accomplishments. Students may create their own video resumes, introductions, and thank you messages for employers as well. Video messages can be used to help students find full-time employment and internships.

Internal/External Communication – College presidents can email videos designed to relay important educational information to students and staff; these messages can be in the form of weekly discussions and progress updates on issues relating to academic life. Faculty members may use the service to convey personal messages to each other. Video email can act as a virtual introduction. These introductions could lead to meetings, which will lead to discussion on how to better serve students across multiple disciplines throughout the school! Video messages may also be sent to parents and students to keep them updated on various campus happenings.

Recruitment – Does your school have a beautiful campus? State-of-the art computer and science labs? Dorms that rival luxury hotels? These are things that should be shared with prospective students! Gather a group of enthusiastic current students, or even the school’s president, and have them conduct a video tour! Send that message in a video mail and/or upload it to your school’s website. This type of video could also be used to court top talent to add to your school’s faculty and staff.

mailVU’s secure online video platform also solves these common concerns:

• No server space is required. mailVU videos are securely stored in the cloud and do not require IT server space on campus.
• The college retains intellectual property control over the learning material. mailVU is inherently private and not open to search engines and YouTube. Your videos are private unless you choose to make them public. mailVU’s Business Plan will allow you to store your videos for future use.
• Student assignments and submissions are secure and private. After all, you certainly wouldn’t want homework videos distributed to the public!
• mailVU is easy to use. No software downloads are required and the service works on any browser on PCs and Macs, and via mailVU’s mobile apps. Our Business Plan allows uploading of pre-recorded videos for distribution, along with college branding.
• mailVU is optimized for mobile. It handles conversion of video file formats and makes sure the videos play on smartphones and tablets. Most students now use mobile devices and mailVU makes sure video communication will reach your audience. Do you want your own college branded video app in the marketplace? We can do that!

We offer a fully scalable, customizable private label service designed for effective educational organization communication. The service allows your school to provide a great means of reaching out to the campus at large. Students and faculty can access the video service from within your own system, avoiding double login.

mailVU can be integrated into your existing Blackboard, Angel, or Moodle platform. We would be happy to discuss how to integrate mailVU into your school’s system. If your school would like more information on how our service may be beneficial, please contact info@mailVU.com.