Organizing OrgSync — Student groups participate in onsite OrgSync training

Last week OrgSync Senior Campus Consultant, Allison Kuty, provided onsite OrgSync training to campus organizations. 

Philip Vukelich | Argonaut Allison Kuty, OrgSync campus consultant, leads an OrgSync training session Thursday in the Idaho Commons Whitewater room. Student clubs with at least two members in attendance of one of the three optional training sessions recieved $50 toward their club. OrgSync is an online organizational tool utilized by universities across the nation.

Philip Vukelich | Argonaut
Allison Kuty, OrgSync campus consultant, leads an OrgSync training session Thursday in the Idaho Commons Whitewater room. Student clubs with at least two members in attendance of one of the three optional training sessions recieved $50 toward their club. OrgSync is an online organizational tool utilized by universities across the nation.

“I find that (this) is a tool we haven’t used to its full potential,” said Martin Zamora, vice president of multicultural fraternity Sigma Lambda Beta. “It’s definitely something that could keep everybody well connected.”

The onsite training overviewed the key functions of the website, and began with the umbrella organizations that encompass all of student life. Those organizations include student government, Greek life, student life, and the residence halls.

Individually, students log into OrgSync and create a profile and portfolio. In the online portfolio users include a biography, information on involvement, academics, employment, documents and recommendations. The user must authorize any recommendations submitted to their profile.

Student organizations on campus then create portals to represent their organization and are open for students to join. Individual student members of OrgSync may be an active part of multiple portals.

Organizations can keep track of members through a roster, post polls, store files, track community service, maintain a contact book, keep a record of attendance, assign tasks to other members through to-do lists, post news, create subgroups, keep track of birth dates and more through the OrgSync portals.

OrgSync also provides financial tools for organizations. A basic checkbook tool tracks money that comes in and out of the organization.

Checkbooks, like rosters, can be exported to an Excel worksheet. Organizations can also use OrgSync to sell club products.

Campus organizations received a cash incentive for sending representatives to the onsite training.

“We need to get all of our members on OrgSync. After that, it will just help us out planning events,” Zamora said. “For example, if we have a barbeque and we forgot something … we can notify different committees, instead of sending a mass message to everybody.”

Kuty said UI administrators will also benefit from using of OrgSync.

“Being able to easily communicate with the students and managing their registration process is really useful if you are a campus administrator,” Kuty said. “And then for students, I think having everyone in one centralized place is really nice, so you don’t have to go to Facebook for something, or campus email for something else.”

OrgSync also has compatibility options with sites such as Facebook and Twitter, which allows students to share information from their portal to various social networking sites.

Kuty said the 6-year-old program was developed in Dallas, Texas, and serves approximately 350 campuses across the United States.

Jake Smith can be reached at [email protected]

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