OrgSync enhances features, services

OrgSync’s new updates are providing student organization an outlet to communicate more effectively across campus.

The website’s goal is to foster this sense of community and connectivity within student organizations. It helps make many communication tools available to students, such as text messaging, discussion forums, polls, email lists, contact books and news posts.

The program assists students in organizations such as career services, volunteer programs, student government, Greek life and even alumni associations. It puts everything that students need to know about their organizations in one easy, available place.

“OrgSync is an unbelievable tool for our student organizations, and we now have over 7,000 users, which includes recent alumni,” said Tom Miles, director of Campus Life.

Georgia College has been using OrgSync for about two years, and it is constantly growing.  There are many new things constantly happening to improve the program as it continues to recruit more student organizations.

“In the last two years, Campus Life has been working to improve OrgSync to provide our students with the best system possible,” Miles said. “We worked closely with OrgSync to develop a treasury module last year to help maintain accounting records of student activity fees.”

This year, Miles traveled with The GIVE Center staff to Texas to work on a new module for OrgSync called the Service Management System.

“Student organizations will now be able to communicate with current students and alumni,” Miles said. “The new Service Management System will streamline our processes in The GIVE Center and provide students with a higher level of customer service.”

The purpose of this new Service Management System is to make students aware of different volunteer opportunities around them. The system offers Volunteer Management, which allows students to track their service hours online with OrgSync.

Students are also able to create custom profiles showing their volunteer interests. This allows community partners, such as nonprofit organizations, to publish certain volunteer opportunities for OrgSync users.

Mary Barnett, a sophomore mass communication major, uses OrgSync in her sorority Kappa Delta.

“OrgSync is a huge help when it comes to tracking service hours,” Barnett said. “Since we have to have a certain amount of hours for the sorority, it definitely helps to have a place to keep everything organized and get new ideas for other volunteer opportunities.”

Student organizations at Georgia College are required to register as an organization on OrgSync. It gives students an easier way to keep track of what is going on in their community.

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