Education messaging on Orbit
Admissions outreach, enrollment reminders, and parent/guardian alerts all run on FERPA-adjacent audience data. When SMS marketing is one vendor, reminder sends are another, and the alerting line is a third, the compliance office cannot prove one consent posture, and a student's opt-out becomes a partial suppression.
The tenant-owned compliance posture
Compliance posture on Orbit is tenant-owned: your workspace attests the consent basis per flow, sets the quiet hours, keeps the shared suppression list, and holds the sender registrations. The platform enforces those settings at send time — the controls below are decisions your team owns, not platform mandates switched on for every tenant.
- Audience-scoped consent — Distances between admissions promo and enrollment-urgent transactional sends — the workspace attests the basis per list and the platform gates sends accordingly.
- Quiet hours for outreach — Recruitment campaigns respect the enrolled recipient's rest window; emergency notifications bypass the window only when your policy marks them as safety-critical.
- Guardian/student opt-out — Opt-outs propagate across the shared suppression list so a withdrawn applicant stops receiving the admissions stream on every channel.
- FERPA-adjacent registries — Your team designates which audiences carry student records; the registry is tenant-owned and drives gate decisions on PHI/FERPA-adjacent flows.
These controls are tenant-owned: your workspace decides the consent basis, the hours, and the list hygiene; the platform enforces your settings at send time.
The channel matrix
Every flow above runs on the same account across the five channels — the fallback chain is a setting you configure once, not a per-channel vendor contract.
- SMS — Enrollment and deadline reminders — the floor channel for guardian/student reach.
- WhatsApp — Two-way admissions counseling and document-request threads for international applicants.
- RCS — Rich next-step cards for enrollment workflows on handsets that support them, with SMS fallback.
- Voice — Admissions callbacks and attendance-escalation alerts for the age band voice earns its cost on.
- Email — Long-form program guides, acceptance letters, and financial-aid packets.
The buyer-explainer for Education
The full narrative — what you are actually buying, in what order to evaluate it, and how the channel fallback chain degrades — is the paired buyer-explainer post: Education messaging, the buyer's explainer.
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