Two screens under Students in the menu keep your students informed: Announcements for news, and Events for things they come to. Everything is limited to your own campus and its students.
Posting an announcement
Step 2: Write it
A short title and the message (5 to 4,000 characters). Line breaks are kept.
Step 3: Choose who gets it
All my students (everyone holding a seat in a batch at your campus) or Chosen batches (up to 20).
Step 4: Email it too
On by default: each student is emailed once. Untick it to show it only in the portal.
- Students read it under Campus news & events in their portal.
- Deleting an announcement removes it from the portal; emails already sent stay sent.
- At most 2,000 students are emailed for one announcement; every student still sees it in the portal.
Creating an event
Fields on this form
- Type of eventRequired
- Open house, workshop, job fair, seminar or other.
- TitleRequired3–140 characters
- What students and visitors see first.
- Starts / EndsRequiredEnds is optional; up to 72 hours after the start
- Entered in Pakistan time. Must be in the future.
- VenueRequired
- Where at your campus, e.g. Main hall, ground floor.
- CapacityRequired1–5,000
- Seats. It cannot go below the number already registered.
- DescriptionRequired10–4,000 characters
- What happens and who it is for.
- ImageOptionalPNG, JPG or WebP, 5 MB
- Shown on the event card.
- Who can see and sign upRequired
- Students only or Public.
- Keep a waitlistOptionalDefault: On
- When the event is full, people join a waitlist and the next one gets a freed place automatically (and is emailed).
Public events and NSDP's review
- Waiting for NSDPA new public event is not shown anywhere until NSDP reviews it.
- Approved by NSDPShown to students and on your campus page on the NSDP website, where visitors can register.
- Not approvedNSDP's note explains why. Edit it to send it back, or make it students-only.
- No review neededStudents-only events go live at once.
Who is coming
- Open an event to see everyone who signed up: students (with their student code) and website visitors, registered, waiting or cancelled.
- Download CSV gives the same list for printing or a sign-in sheet.
- Nobody gets two places: one email is one place.
- Cancel event asks for a reason and emails everyone registered or waiting.
FAQ
Who counts as "all my students"?
Everyone holding a seat in a batch held at your campus that has not been cancelled.
How do visitors register for a public event?
On your campus page on the NSDP website, under Upcoming events, with their name, email and optional phone. They are emailed a confirmation and a reminder.
What happens when it is full?
With a waitlist, new sign-ups wait in order; without one, they are told the event is full.