Reaching critical mass

The site has now been running for just on three weeks and we have sent 190 invites and have 97 members and heading for 100 shortly. The site has had an amazing 14,000+ page hits. There are 4 different sub groups with varying numbers of members and at last count over 22 different forum
discussions taking place.

Members are expressing their personality by customising their home pages and adding photos both course related and personal.

Jon and I are planning on sending at least one broadcast email to all members each week so that the site maintains momentum and people keep coming back and interacting with other but it certainly seems like the site is achieving its goals of helping to motivate and develop a sense of community
amongst students.

The latest request is from student’s who are graduating this year wanting to know if they will still be able to access the site. Perhaps we will need to set up a graduates site