Learn

Videos and documentation.

Watch a video if you would rather see it done; read the documentation when you are installing or setting something up. The videos are short, with captions and no sound, and they are filmed on Courier’s own pages with an invented school’s data. Courier is a free public beta, for everyday notices and not for emergencies.

Videos

The first is the overview; the others are the getting-started series.

• Courier in 80 seconds

  A quick tour: write a notice, preview it, send it, read the results, then audiences, templates, sender limits and Agent Settings. Captions only, no sound.

  Watch on YouTube

• 1. Install Courier and create the first administrator

  Download the installer, run it on a Windows server, and create the first administrator.

  Watch on YouTube

• 2. Send your first notice with Courier

  Choose the computers, write the notice, preview it, send it, and read the results.

  Watch on YouTube

• 3. Courier audiences and Active Directory groups

  Save lists of computers, set up the read-only directory account, and find and count Active Directory groups.

  Watch on YouTube

• 4. Courier templates with blanks

  Save wording you reuse, with blanks for a date, a room or a choice.

  Watch on YouTube

• 5. Courier sending limits and sender limits

  The school-wide numbers, and limits for each sender.

  Watch on YouTube

• 6. Courier Agent Settings: deploy, devices and the Courier module

  Deploy the RSJ Agent, see your computers, and turn Courier on for the ones you choose.

  Watch on YouTube

• 7. Courier Priority notices and the all clear

  Send a Priority notice, see how a computer shows it, then cancel it or send an all clear.

  Watch on YouTube

Where a video shows a notice on a computer, it is a labelled simulation of the window, drawn to match it.

Documentation

• Getting Started — Install Courier, enrol your first computer and send a first notice.
• Sending a notice — The form, the preview, expiry, results and history.
• Audiences — Sending to computers or to people.
• Active Directory groups — Finding, counting and addressing groups.
• Templates — Wording you reuse, with blanks.
• Sender limits — School-wide and per-sender limits.
• Agent Settings — Deploying the RSJ Agent, devices and the Courier module.
• Support bundle — The diagnostics .zip for a support request.
• Troubleshooting — Common problems and what to check.
• All the documentation

Feedback

Questions and ideas go in the Discussions; problems go in the Issues. Or write to hello@rsjsoftware.com.