Connections Toolkit
Connections Toolkit
Learn how to incorporate our new Connections feature into your enrollment strategy.
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Connections: Getting Started Series: Analytics and Best Practices
This webinar provides guided onboarding support as you explore the new Analytics functionality within the Connections™ platform. Watch to learn best practices, on building effective Profiles, Audience maximization, and creating compelling Communication Plan Messages.
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Connections Quick Start Guide
Use the Connections Quick Start Guide and get up and running with Connections in just four easy steps!
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Connections Geography Maps
Use these detailed geography maps to build audiences and connect with the right students.
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Connections Getting Started Series: Access, Roles, and Profiles
Learn how to access the Connections™ tool, set up users, and create your profile to introduce your institution to students in the BigFuture School app.
- 39:32
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Connections Getting Started Series: Selecting Audiences
This webinar discusses what Audiences are, how users determine the number of students they can reach in Connections™, and how to develop a strategy that best fits your institution's goals.
- 26:44
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Connections Getting Started Series: Communication Plans and Messages
Watch to learn more on crafting and deploying communication plans to reach a specific population of students as defined by your Audiences.
- 37:42
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Build Impactful Messages in Message Builder
Get started building your messages in a few easy steps.
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Building a Connections Profile
Introduce your institution to students in the BigFuture School app.
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Crafting and Deploying a Communications Plan
Learn how Connections allows you to build communication plans to reach specific student populations within your Audience pool.
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Audience and Communication Plans Workbook
An interactive tool designed to help you define your communication plan strategy for Connections.
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BigFuture School & Connections Student Demo
Take a look inside the student journey in Connections. A feature of the BigFuture School app, Connections empowers students to plan their future, their way.
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Connections: Higher Ed Demo
Connections is College Board's newest pathway for students to engage with institutions like yours. Watch this quick demo of how all of the elements: Audiences, communication plans, and messaging come together to reach students where they are.
- 11:08
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Connections: A Conversation on Messaging
This video takes closer look at the messaging function in Connections. Building on Audiences and Communication Plans, we breakdown how to get your specific messages to the students you're looking for.
- 19:02
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Search and Connections: Communication and Segmentation Opening Session
Watch to learn more about Search cycle updates and take a closer look at the student experience related to the Connections tool.
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Connections: Building Communication Plans
After a quick review of Audiences, we’ll take a closer look into the Connections interface and discuss how you will communicate with different types of students in your Audience pool.
- 14:00
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Search and Connections: What's New in Year 2
In this opening session we provide a high level overview on updates to Search, and our newest offering, Connections. To learn more about the referenced topics, we encourage you to watch the following recordings, Connections: Defining and Selecting an Audience and Landscape Context in Search.
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Connections: Defining and Selecting an Audience
Audiences are central to how you will engage students in Connections this fall. This session dives deeper into Audience development and useful resources that will help you select the Audiences included in your 2023-24 Access Plan.
- 16:35
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Top 6 Questions Users Are Asking About Connections
We’re sharing answers to the most-asked questions from our members.
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An Introduction to Audiences
An audience determines the number of students you can reach in Connections. This guide will help you define your audiences.
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Audiences Workbook
Use this workbook to define your Audience strategy and determine the best Access Plan for your institution.
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Spreading the word on BigFuture School & Connections
This set of resources will help you facilitate on-campus presentations and discussions with students and school counselors.
Spreading the word on BigFuture School & Connections
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BigFuture School and Connections (Counseling Audience)
Use these College Board branded slides to overview BigFuture School and Connections as you welcome counseling teams to your campus.
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BigFuture School & Connections Slides (Student Audience)
Download and brand these slides to complement the one pager.
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BigFuture School and Connections One Pager for Students
Brand this one pager to give students some tips on how to get noticed by colleges and universities.
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BigFuture School and Connections Intro and Talking Points
Start here! Review the contents of the toolkit and take note of the key talking points to use with your student or K-12 audience.
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5 Pro Tips to Help Your Messages Stand Out in Connections
Here are five pro tips to help your messages stand out in Connections.