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Slack is a messaging and collaboration platform where classes and other groups can connect and share information and resources. Smith has a campus-wide license for faculty, students, and staff.

Slack Essentials

Students: If your instructor is using Slack, you will receive an email to join their course Workspace. Follow the instructions in the email to join the course.

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Help Materials from Slack

Workspace Administration

Teach with Slack

To request a Slack Workspace for your course, submit a ticket or email ithelp@smith.edu. Be sure to include your course details.

Invite Smith Students/Staff to Slack Workspaces

Invite Smith College community members (e.g., graduate assistants or co-professors) to join your single, combined, or cross-listed Workspace using their email addresses.

ITS will automatically add students registered in Workday to the appropriate course Workspace approximately ten days before the start of class (or when the workspace is created if after that ten day window). ITS will update Workspaces several times a day as students register/drop courses. If you find a student is not in your workspace who is already registered in Workday, please submit a Helpdesk ticket so our Slack team can assist.

You can invite Smith College staff and/or students (e.g. graduate assistants, co-professors) to join your single, combined, or cross-listed Workspace using these steps:

Open the Slack desktop or mobile app. If you have not downloaded the app for desktop or mobile, you may do so here: slack.com/downloads.
Select the arrow next to Smith College at the top of the Slack app.
Select Tools and Settings.
Select Manage members.
Select the correct workspace and then Open.
Select Invite People in the top right corner.
Choose Members.
Choose whether to invite the new users as guests or members
Enter the Smith email address for the person you would like to add.
You can include multiple email addresses in the invitation, but the type of user needs to be consistent for each invitation.
Select Send.

Teaching with Slack at Smith

Building Class Community Through Emojis, Incorporating Poll Everywhere, and Experimenting with Language (Video) by Jonathan Gosnell, French Studies.
Employing Slack for Weekly Discussion Posts, Organic Conversations Between Students, and Managing Small Group Work (Video) by Miranda McCarvel, Multilingual Writing Specialist, English Language & Literature and Education & Child Study
Slack for (A)synchronous Course Communication (Blog post) by Albert Kim, Jordan Crouser, and Benjamin Baumer.
Tour of Slack for the SDS Coalition of Color (SDSCC) (Video) by Albert Kim, Statistical and Data Sciences.
Using Slack as the Central Point of Communication for a Class and File Sharing (Video) by Albert Kim, Statistical and Data Sciences.
Using Slack as a Flexible Communication Tool, to Answer Questions About Class Material, and as a Space for Students to Ask Questions and Collaborate on Lab Projects (Video) by Marney Pratt, Biological Sciences.

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