CUNY Academic Commons

At the CAT committee meeting yesterday, we discussed the new customized email addresses for groups. One person spoke up to say that this was exactly the issue that had confounded faculty at her campus, and she suggested we get the word out aggressively about this feature.

Her suggestion, which I like, is that we email all group admins the email addresses for their groups, along with a draft message to post to their groups if they wish.

I'm happy to draft text for such a message, but I wanted to check on the feasibility of this. Could we pull from the database to get:
1. group admin names
2. group admin emails
3. group titles
4. email addresses for groups

so that we could send such an email?

We could simply post to the group for group admins, but doing so wouldn't give group admins customized info for the groups they administer

One danger to doing this is that people who admin lots of groups will get lots of emails. We may also hear from people running defunct groups, asking for our help in closing them. but maybe that wouldn't be so bad.