Send Single Message

This feature seeks to enable a user to send an SMS message to a student.

 From the OSIS sidebar, Click on the Send Single Message link under Messaging.

On the Send Single Message page, there is an Input textbox field with a search icon button and an Advanced Search button.

A. Input textbox field: this textbox allows the user to do a basic search of the following;

  • Registration number: the student Reg. No.
  • Name: The name of the students.
  • Mobile: the students’ mobile number.
  • Email: the students’ email.

Click on the search button icon to get results after entering any of the above.

Advanced Search: Click on the Advanced Search button to do a more narrow search to get particular information or a certain group of students with or without any uniqueness based on the following;

  • Field: The field displays a dropdown of all students Personal and Program information titles to search from. Eg. Select Gender from the dropdown.
  • Condition: the condition works dynamically based on the selected Field. Eg. Select equals to from the dropdown. 
  • Value: Select or type-in the value you are looking for from the selected Field dropdown. Eg. select Male from the dropdown. 
    • Click on the round Plus button icon to show in Query Preview
    • NB: You can click on the Submit Query button to get results or join more fields to narrow the search. 
  • Join: Use joins to combine other Fields in other to narrow deep down your search. Users can select the following type of Joins;
    • AND: The AND operator displays a record if all the conditions separated by AND are TRUE.
    • OR: The OR operator displays a record if any of the conditions separated by OR is TRUE.
  • Sort On: This provides a dropdown of all students Personal and Program information titles to sort from.
  • Sort Value: The user can sort in ascending order(ASC) or descending order(DESC) of the selected Sort On. 

 Query Preview shows or displays the label of all selected Fields, Conditions, and Values of the user search query. Users can edit the query or delete it to start again. 

Click on the Submit Query button to get results. 

For each Query result of students, the user can view or see the following fields.

  • Name: Name of student
  • Reg. No.: Student Registration number.(with their applicant number displayed beneath)
  • Mobile Number: Students’ mobile number
  • Email: The Students’ email.
  • Program: The students’ program they’re taking
  • Level: The level of the students’
  • Student’s status: Students’ status eg. Active or Inactive
  • Action: This has a Send SMS button to send an SMS to the student.

Click on the Send SMS button to send an SMS to a student.

This will bring up a modal to allow the user enter their message.

Click on the tags to position them at your preferred spaces within the window.

Click on the Send SMS button and confirm your action by clicking on Send.

NB: The user can’t send an empty message and also, the message cannot exceed hundred(100) characters.