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Working with alumni, graduating & transfer students

Working with alumni, graduating & transfer students

Take this course to prepare for a successful transition of graduating students to alumni.

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About this course

Whether you provide long term access to services to alumni or just need to capture information of transitioning seniors, this course will guide you through:

  • Maintaining data integrity as students transition
  • Updating students using the importer (seniors to alumni)
  • Changing student email addresses 
  • Sending jobs available to alumni
  • Best practices in working with alums & graduating seniors in Handshake

Please Note: You will need to have completed the Importer Training and have SSO permissions added to your account to complete some of the actions in this course. 


Who should take this course? 

Anyone involved with data management in Handshake, and/or anyone that works with transfer students or alumni.

Tip: Generate any questions that come up as you move through the training and reach out to your Relationship Manager after the course is completed if they are still left unanswered. 

Curriculum38 mins

  • Introduction
  • Transitioning students (5 min)
  • Updating student email addresses

    When handling the transition from Senior to Alumni, a lot can vary based on your school’s procedures for handling student access and data updates.  

    Please review the video option that best matches your work flow with Alumni

  • Bulk archiving students (3 min)
  • Alumni who retain .edu email addresses (2 min)
  • Alumni who DO NOT Retain their .edu email addresses (3 min)
  • Manual update of student email addresses (3 min)
  • Alumni access to Handshake
  • Alumni login Options (8 min)
  • Alumni registration (5 min)
  • Best practices
  • FAQs with a Handshake Expert (12 min)
  • FAQs & best practices
  • Help Center documentation
  • Feedback
  • Course survey

About this course

Whether you provide long term access to services to alumni or just need to capture information of transitioning seniors, this course will guide you through:

  • Maintaining data integrity as students transition
  • Updating students using the importer (seniors to alumni)
  • Changing student email addresses 
  • Sending jobs available to alumni
  • Best practices in working with alums & graduating seniors in Handshake

Please Note: You will need to have completed the Importer Training and have SSO permissions added to your account to complete some of the actions in this course. 


Who should take this course? 

Anyone involved with data management in Handshake, and/or anyone that works with transfer students or alumni.

Tip: Generate any questions that come up as you move through the training and reach out to your Relationship Manager after the course is completed if they are still left unanswered. 

Curriculum38 mins

  • Introduction
  • Transitioning students (5 min)
  • Updating student email addresses

    When handling the transition from Senior to Alumni, a lot can vary based on your school’s procedures for handling student access and data updates.  

    Please review the video option that best matches your work flow with Alumni

  • Bulk archiving students (3 min)
  • Alumni who retain .edu email addresses (2 min)
  • Alumni who DO NOT Retain their .edu email addresses (3 min)
  • Manual update of student email addresses (3 min)
  • Alumni access to Handshake
  • Alumni login Options (8 min)
  • Alumni registration (5 min)
  • Best practices
  • FAQs with a Handshake Expert (12 min)
  • FAQs & best practices
  • Help Center documentation
  • Feedback
  • Course survey