Student Retention using Student Messenger.

The mobile phone is now ubiquitous amongst university students and yet, its potential as a communication medium between staff and students, in this context, has not yet been tapped.

Student Messenger is a desktop application which allows text messages to be sent to students' mobile phones either en masse or individually. The Student Messenger application can be used as a means of sending out 'one-way' announcements or to generate a dialogue between students and staff members. Text message conversations with your students can help them to feel involved in the social endeavour of university life.

The cost of the individual messages is competitive and every effort is made to continuously investigate means of keeping the cost low.

This application was developed with student retention in mind. A paper describing this and other potential uses for such an application, can be viewed here: