ConnectYard - ConnectYard, Inc.

ConnectYard provides a robust communications platform that brings together social, mobile, and legacy communications systems and, as a result, supports true unified communications. ConnectYard allows faculty/staff to initiate messages from email or the Learning Management System and have it arrive to students via Facebook, Twitter, or text messaging. Students can reply from their favorite social and mobile channels and have the responses sent back to email and the Learning Management System; this eliminates communication barriers that limit student engagement and collaboration. ConnectYard's flexible platform supports uses in teaching and learning, emergency notifications, and student services applications. Social features such as trending, mentions, likes, and one-to-one messaging provide familiar functions that allow students to quickly begin using the platform.