The Directory

The Directory can be configured to include all or specific user groups of the platform. It can also be configured to only be shown to certain groups.

Members may filter the Directory via filters such as graduation dates, industry experience, subject area and you may also configure additional filters to help with their search.

The Directory also supports the inclusion of ‘stub’ accounts which allow you to include all members of your community, even those who are yet to register, with only public domain information available. These profiles can be contactable without exposing private email addresses – so from now on you can direct those frequent re-connection requests to Aluminate!

eMentoring Network

Mentors complete a highly structured profile ensuring they feel confident about participating within their capacity. Mentees are then able to find and request specific interactions, such as arranging a phone call, asking for advice on an application or even requesting work experience.

Mentors remain in complete control of their involvement by being able to specify exactly which services they offer and the number of mentees they can accept simultaneously. The system ensures that mentors are not inundated with requests.

Admins have full visibility over every stage of the mentoring relationship through reporting and data exports and are also able to intervene in the exceptionally rare case a user requests moderation.

Advanced Mentoring Programmes

Whilst the eMentoring network might scale to tens of thousands of participants, institutions often run much more focused hand-on programmes with specialist staff resource. These programmes, whilst smaller, are often incredibly high quality due to the expert stewardship of mentoring professionals. Aluminate’s Advanced Mentoring module exists to make their lives easier by blending the best of both worlds: the efficiencies of using an online interactive platform with the management tools required for effective stewardship and quality control.

Programmes are highly configurable:

• Set a programme name
• Upload branding images and descriptions
• Start and end dates
• Visible only to certain groups or users
• Programme specific mentor application forms
• Set mentor options (eg different programme lengths)
• Set relationship durations with auto-close options

Moderation options include:

• Reviewing mentor applications before approval
• Returning incomplete applications
• Removing mentors from a programme
• Approving mentee requests to mentors
• Forwarding requests to mentors for acceptance
• Accepting requests on behalf of mentors
• Returning requests to mentees with alternative suggestions
• Messaging mentors or mentees at any time
• Reviewing interactions and moderating messages
• Closing off and reviewing partnerships
• …and much more!

Ambassadors

Your ambassador network is a key recruitment tool in the quest for attracting the best candidates from around the world. This module is often deployed with the aim of converting those already holding an offer. By making your best ambassadors available to offer holders they can describe how much they enjoyed their time at your institution and how valuable their experience has been.

This module is particularly effective for international student recruitment with its ability to connect applicants from countries with students and alumni who also arrived from that same country. Additional fields can be tailored to also allow filtering by course taken or subsequent career path.

We understand that prospective students likely should not have full access to the Aluminate platform so Aluminate’s powerful ‘Account Groups’ feature allows their restriction to only the Ambassador module.

Advanced Chapter Management

Effectively run membership groups and alumni chapters to strengthen your global brand presence and alumni participation rates.

This new module provides a sophisticated solution to help manage your real-world groups, whether based on geographical area or special interest. Every chapter also received their own privacy protected public website page which is fully discoverable via Google and other search engines.

Appoint trusted chapter leaders and provide them with this tool to help you manage group membership, content, conversations and events. Easily re-delegate leadership when chapter leaders change.

Easily configure group branding, group visibility and eligiblity to join, as well as be able to broadcast messages to group members. Integrate your chapter’s existing social media content, and link and highlight related groups.

Full reporting allows tracking of chapter activity.

Digital Library

You may prefer to make certain documents or publications only available to authorised members of your alumni community. You might also be very interested in knowing which alumni are viewing what resources.

Digital Library allows you to securely publish any type of media including images, videos, links and documents for viewing online or download, within a flexible list and gallery. This module will track who views each resource and allow you to report not only the number of views but find out who the readers are themselves.

Jobs & Events

These modules provide an elegant and searchable board showcasing employment and event opportunities that you choose to promote. Whilst not a full application/ticket management solution, you can link the relevant action pages so that your users can click take action.

Each board allows an admin to define their own categorisations so users can filter jobs by level of seniority, industry sector or even salary band. Events could be filtered by type, location, date and whether they are free or ticketed. Add as many category filters as you wish. You can also allow employers to directly access, add and manage their own postings.

Social Media Centre

The perfect way to embed and display live social media feeds on your platform. The intuitive design of Social Media Centre allows you to group feeds together as a carousel or display as separate social feeds.

Interactive Community Map

Members who are happy to share their general location (down to city granularity) can appear on a map and see who else is nearby. Integrated with other modules, our mapping technology is extended to also visualise mentors or ambassadors around the world.

My University Record

My University Record (MUR) is a module that is available for those who purchase both Aluminate and SNS Sync. It leverages SNS’s bidirectional data sync capabilities to give users a private view of information held about them by the university.

This data may not be appropriate for their public profile as it could include things like mailing preferences, opt-ins and more detailed employment information such as salary band or a self scored willingness to donate.
With MUR all personal data entered into any of Aluminate’s profile pages can be managed via the sophisticated data manipulation and deconflicting interface of SNS Sync which is configured to accept and supply data in the precise schema of your own in-house database.

To find out more see the SNS App page.