Groups are individual communities within Yale Connect for each organization, club, department, and other Yale-affiliated organization. All Groups must be approved by the appropriate school or college administrator. Managed by Group Officers, each Group has its own site and membership for which members can register for group events, receive notifications, share resources, communicate with others, and more. 

Group Officers manage a Group’s setup and content, including:

• Configuring Group settings and branding
• Managing other Group Officer permissions
• Managing members
• Posting discussions and sharing resources
• Creating and managing events
• Sending emails
• Creating and administering surveys and forms
• Creating and assigning tracks and checklists
• Creating a Group website
• Developing connection programs
• Developing workflows
• Downloading reports

In addition to overseeing and managing the Group’s configuration and content, as a Group Officer, you are also responsible for:

• Serving as a first line of support for Yale Connect users and your Group’s members.
• Notifying [email protected] when the Groups are no longer in use and can be removed.

The Groups dropdown in the top navigation gives you access to all the groups you have joined as a member and as a Group Officer. Groups that have a settings gear to the right in the Groups dropdown are those for which you have Group Officer permissions.

When you select a Group for which you are an officer, you are immediately taken to the Group Dashboard. The Dashboard is where you can manage your Group’s settings, modules, and content.

To view the Group’s home page (what your members see), select Group Page from the left menu under Dashboard.

To return to the Dashboard from the home page, select Manage to the right of your Group’s name.

Under the Dashboard menu on the left, select Settings to manage your Group’s configuration.

Below is an overview of the types of settings you can configure in each tab of the Settings menu: 

• Basics: Group name, group type, categories, logo, group acronym, mission, membership benefits, goals, constitution, publish, hide from groups list, close membership, deactivate group page
• Contact Information: Group email, address, zip code, city, state, country, phone, website
• Access & Privacy: Signup instructions, signup secret word, auto validate users with the specific account types, email restriction, members cannot leave, parent group, parent group restriction, ask for more details, view or hide other members
• Membership: Send a membership expiration notification, set the days before the expiration, membership privacy, membership default duration
• Social Networks: Facebook, Facebook group ID, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram
• More: Automatic welcome message, forum name, hide private forum content, default cc, default bcc, email subject prefix, feed post notifications, feed digest email subject, feed digest email intro, default event privacy, default job privacy, automatically add members as attendees, check-In method for the kiosk, member custom field instructions