GopherLink for Student Groups

GopherLink is the home for student group profiles at the University of Minnesota. Utilize all of GopherLink’s tools and benefits to enhance your group’s presence on and off campus.

Student group officers must be signed into GopherLink to access help guides on this page.

Your group’s GopherLink profile is your group’s public face to the University. The GopherLink platform is a centralized place for the University community to learn how to get involved in student groups and much more.

• How to first get your profile
  • See SG Upload Plan
• How to access your profile to update it

Sign into the Admin side of GopherLink and then learn how to edit your profile here.

Post your student group’s events to the GopherLink Events Calendar to promote across the University of Minnesota community or privately within your group; monitor RSVPs and invite lists, customize event information and photos, and much more! Review these help guides to learn more.

Create/Manage an Event

• Creating an Event
• Duplicating Events
• Deleting Events
• Rescheduling Deleted Events

Manage Event Attendees

• Adding Attendees to Event (via web)
• Adding Attendees After Event Has Ended
• Exporting Attendee List
• Emailing Attendees
• Checkpoint App
• Event Pin
• Zoom Integration

Use Polling at your Event

• What is a Poll
• Creating a Poll
• Editing a Poll
• Viewing Results of a Poll

Need help planning an event? Click here to review the student group resources on Event Planning.

The Roster tool is a great way to manage your student group roster, send invitations to new members, and identify group officers. GopherLink is a much more powerful tool if your group's roster lists all members. Membership rosters cannot be seen by the public. Check out the Roster Overview to get started.

Check out these other help guides for managing your roster:

• Updating your officers on your roster
• Managing Organization Members
• Importing Rosters from an Email List
• Adding officers to your public roster

How to Assign Positions

GopherLink has five default officer positions. However, not every group will have a President, Vice President, Treasurer, and so on. Your group may have different titles of these positions, your group may have no hierarchy and all officers are just officers.

Review the descriptions below to help assign these positions on your roster. You can have more than one person holding the same officer position.

• ​President - An officer who can take primary responsibility for the group
• Vice President - A secondary officer for your group, or an officer assigned to a focus area within your group
• Treasurer - An officer who handles the financial management of your group
• Secretary - An officer who handles record keeping, administrative tasks, or other organizational functions for the group
• Committee Chair - A general officer that doesn't fit the above descriptions
• Member - A general/voting member of your group

At a minimum, your group needs the following on your roster:

• Five University of Minnesota students, who are student service fee paying, listed as officers.
• Of the officers listed, you need at least the following two positions listed:
  • At least one person must be listed as President - The officer(s) who can take primary responsibility for the group
  • At least one person must be listed as Treasurer - The officer(s) responsible for the group's financial management and processes

Any person listed in an officer position must meet the minimum requirements for student group officers. Review the Officer Responsibilities in the Student Group Handbook for details.

Student groups can store and share documents in their GopherLink profile. Organize with customizable folders, control access to each document, and more! All student groups will house their constitution and bylaws here.

• Functionality
  • Title, description, visibility (public, members-only, officers-only)
• Pro-Tips on using documents

Student groups can create forms to collect data, survey your group members, and more directly from your GopherLink profile. Forms may be customized with conditional logic, advanced fields and consolidated approval processes.

• Creating/Editing a Form
  • Introduction to Forms
  • Basic Fields
  • Advanced Fields
  • Layout Options
    • Layout Grid
  • Form Widgets
  • Conditional Logic
• Managing Form Settings
  • Form Access
  • Form Availability (when the form is available)
  • Form Visibility (where the form appears in the system)
• Reviewing, Approving, and Denying Form Submissions
  • Form Approvals and Notifications
  • Denying a Form

Contact GopherLink@umn.edu with questions.