Reach the Right Students
myBYUI helps departments connect students with relevant information, events, activities, and resources. Messages can be targeted to specific student audiences, helping departments reach the students most likely to need or benefit from the information.
Students who use the myBYUI app may also receive push notifications when notifications are enabled on their device.
Students who use the myBYUI app may also receive push notifications when notifications are enabled on their device.
Ways to Communicate in myBYUI
Targeted Messages
Reach specific student audiences with announcements, reminders, opportunities, and other relevant information.
Events
Promote approved events to appropriate student audiences and help students keep track of upcoming activities in myBYUI.
Groups
Use myBYUI Groups to share announcements, create events, and host conversations with members of a department, society, organization, or other approved group.
Requesting myBYUI Communication
Targeted myBYUI communications are coordinated through University Communications.
Contact your Strategist with your message, audience, timing, and communication objective to discuss whether myBYUI is the right channel.
Managing myBYUI Groups
If you manage an approved myBYUI Group, you can create content for your own group using the tools available within myBYUI.
Usage Guidelines
Target the Right Audience
Send messages only to students for whom the information is relevant. Thoughtful targeting helps students receive useful information without unnecessary communication.
Make the Message Immediately Useful
Lead with what students need to know or do. Keep messages concise and make deadlines, locations, and next steps easy to identify.
Use Notifications Purposefully
Consider the importance and timing of a message when requesting a push notification. Notifications should provide timely value to the students receiving them.
Send Students to the Next Step
When action is needed, link students directly to the appropriate resource, registration, form, event, or webpage.
Follow University Standards
myBYUI content should follow applicable BYU-Idaho brand, accessibility, copyright, and communication standards.
myBYUI can support targeted announcements, reminders, events, opportunities, group communications, and other information relevant to specific student audiences.
Yes. One of the advantages of myBYUI is the ability to target communications to relevant student audiences. Contact your Strategic Communications Coordinator to discuss the appropriate audience for your message.
Students using the myBYUI app may receive push notifications when notifications are enabled on their device. Whether a communication should use a push notification depends on the message, audience, and timing.
Contact your Strategic Communications Coordinator with your communication need, intended audience, and timing. Your coordinator can help determine whether myBYUI is the appropriate channel and how the message should be targeted.
Approved Group managers can use myBYUI Groups to communicate with members, create events, share announcements, and host conversations.
Contact the Scheduling Office to add an approved event to the main university calendar. Group managers can also use the event tools available within their myBYUI Groups for group-specific activities.