If you need to send communications to internal audiences (faculty, staff or students) you'll want it delivered to their campus email addresses (eg; @colorado.edu, @ucdenver.edu, @cu.edu or @uccs.edu), To do so, you'll need to send to a Data Extension. Your eComm specialist will create the Data Extension but it's the sender's responsibility to re'Start' it before each send.
Reports can often have the same contact listed numerous times, so identifying the unique count is important to confirm the Report criteria is accurate. Having a total 9,000 unique contacts when expecting 250 is an indicator of incorrect criteria and should be investigated.
All Marketing Cloud emails are created by combining different content blocks into a layout. Check out the most commonly used blocks and those to avoid.
There are two ways to send emails through Marketing Cloud, Guided Send and Salesforce Send Emails. Guided Send has a sleeker interface but Salesforce Send Emails can be reused bringing efficiency and minimizing room for error.