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Keep students informed

Reach students with effective, timely communications – delivered when and where it matters most.

Deliver important updates direct to students

Whether it’s a timetable change, an emergency update or a call to vote in student elections, myday ensures your messages are delivered and seen. Send native push notifications, alerts, news updates and banners directly within the platform – across both web and mobile.

Segment your messaging to ensure relevance, track engagement to understand impact and refine your approach using real-time data. With these built-in tools, you’ll increase visibility and drive action – without relying entirely on email or costly SMS services. Save time, reduce costs and improve the student experience with a streamlined portal, accessible on mobile and web.

Ensure your messages are seen, not skipped

Send instant alerts and push notifications to targeted audiences – whether campus-wide or to specific groups. 

Track who has received and engaged with each alert using detailed reporting, enabling you to optimise your messaging strategy. Institutions using this feature have seen measurable improvements in student engagement, including increased voter turnout and participation.

Share stories students want – and need – to see

myday’s newsroom feature brings together curated news from internal departments and external sources in one streamlined feed. Share key updates, link to policy changes or embed video content and social posts to keep students informed and engaged.

With built-in social media tiles, you can also promote your institutional channels and boost engagement across platforms like Instagram, Facebook and X – all from within myday.

Highlight critical updates right on the dashboard

myday makes it easy to design and display visual banners across student dashboards to share timely, high-impact messages. 

Whether you’re promoting deadlines, wellbeing support or urgent changes, banners can include calls-to-action that prompt immediate response. Target banners to specific student groups to ensure relevance and reduce message fatigue.

Reach every student, every step of the way

Deliver tailored experiences and messaging for different user groups – from prospective students to current learners, staff and alumni – ensuring each audience sees the content most relevant to them.

With myday’s public-facing dashboards and flexible authentication options, you can communicate with students before they log in, using a custom homepage. And with the built-in Content Management System, staff can easily create, edit and publish updates – with no technical skills required.

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Curriculum Transformation at the University of Edinburgh: co-creation and the relationship between local innovation and institutional change

Talk description: I will use the themes of reflection and experiential learning, skills development and assessment (including programme level assessment and changes in assessment practice) to explore this process in more detail. This includes the link between disciplinary and institutional curriculum reform, learning from local innovations and changes, and using this to inform University level changes and support.

Bio: My current position is leading the University wide Curriculum Transformation Project. This is a major and long term initiative for the University considering all areas of the University’s undergraduate and taught postgraduate curriculum. Prior to this Jon set up and led the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) at the University of Edinburgh. The IAD provides University level support for teaching, learning and researcher development, including direct support for students and staff, and support for enhancement and innovation in curriculum development, the student and researcher experience. Jon has a PhD in petroleum geology.

Dr Melissa Highton. Assistant Principal, University of Edinburgh

Talk description: A journey through the stories told by wicca data. How a neglected research data set was used by students to overturn historic injustice and shed new light on the lives of women in Scotland.

Bio: Melissa has worked for many years in higher education at some of the UK’s finest and most ancient institutions. In each place she enjoys discovering the hidden histories and less heard voices which can be surfaced in new ways using the most up to date and open technologies. She is a champion of playful and curious approaches to engagement with audiences on campus and online, and is an invited speaker at events about dangerous women.

Education is an Experience That Should Be Designed

Talk description: We have any number of problems and opportunities as universities, and universities must adapt to help students from diverse backgrounds develop the knowledge and skills they need to thrive and make a positive impact in the world. Key to those adaptations is understanding that we provide students with an experience. We ought to design them with intention and purpose. This talk with take up this argument and ground it within a large educational transformation project at the University of Leeds.

Bio: Jeff Grabill is Deputy Vice Chancellor for Student Education at the University of Leeds. Prior to joining the University of Leeds, Grabill was at Michigan State University (MSU) in the United States for nearly 20 years. He served Michigan State University as the Associate Provost for Teaching, Learning, and Technology. In that role, he was responsible for facilitating innovation in learning and educator professional development via his role as Director of the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology. Grabill’s research focuses on how digital writing is associated with citizenship and learning. That work has been located in community contexts, in museums, and in classrooms at both the K-12 and university levels. Grabill is also a co-founder of Drawbridge, an educational technology company.

Mission Possible: The DNA of a bespoke professional development program

Talk description: The diversity of students in higher education dictates that there cannot (and should not) be a single ‘silver bullet’ approach to address the complex challenge of career readiness learning. However, the reality of modern university structures is that delivering bespoke experiences for each student is a challenge in and of itself.  And yet, all things are possible with creative use of PebblePad to streamline delivery (for the university) and make it highly personalised (for the student). 

Bio: Gayle Brent is a Learning and Teaching Consultant (Employability) at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Gaye’s specialist area of interest is developing and implementing strategies to enhance staff and student understanding of employability in both curricular and extra-curricular contexts. She completed a Master of Education and Professional Studies Research to explore the potential barriers and challenges to embedding employability-based learning in higher education curriculum and is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy exploring the impact of an extra-curricular employability program on the individual student experience.

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