Student organizations at ASU will soon have new software to improve communications and centralize information for all campus groups.

The software, OrgSync, will allow student organizations’ faculty advisers, leaders and members to create their own portals.

Jennifer Stults Krasnow, assistant director of Student Engagement, said OrgSync’s software functions will enhance the ASU community.

The functions include an events calendar, places for contact information, options for mass text messages and Facebook interaction, she said.

“One of the greatest benefits of this program is student organizations will no longer need to use paper to sign up new members,” Stults Krasnow said. “This is a completely Web-based program.”

She said that eventually student organizations on all campuses will have their own OrgSync portals, making it easier for student organizations to communicate with other group members and recruit new ones.

Stults Krasnow added that Undergraduate Student Government on the Tempe campus purchased the program for $17,500.

“It’s sort of like a one-stop shop for organization,” she said.

Nonprofit leadership and management junior Rebecca Herrera said she used OrgSync to prepare and organize the Downtown Programming and Activities Board as its director.

Herrera said there is a short, helpful instructional video, but even with this video the program requires some getting used to.

“With the current Web site, if you look up PAB, it takes you to the page for the one in Tempe,” Herrera said. “If you want to look for the one downtown, you have to specifically search that. Many students end up joining the Tempe PAB instead of the one on their preferred campus.”

Stults Krasnow said she hopes this program will make it easier for students to get involved at ASU.

“Students will be able to find out about all organizations on all campuses in one place,” she said.

Herrera said she also found that OrgSync is a good place to store information, especially for leaders of organizations.

“It will [be] able to keep lists of members, photos and stuff in a logical place, besides flash drives,” Herrera said. “And it will make information like that accessible to the people who need it.”

Another function of the software will give students in organizations the ability to print off extracurricular resumes. Stults Krasnow said if a student were in an organization, or multiple ones, the software would be able to put together a sheet with all of his or her activities.

It would also include more specific information about a student’s roles pulled from individual organization’s portals.

Herrera said that starting to use the program has been a struggle because the range of functions is a little overwhelming, but, generally, she thinks her organization will benefit from it.

“I think it’s going to be a great help for uniting student organizations across all the campuses,” she said.

Reach the reporter at sheydt@asu.edu.