Tool Search: Announcement Setup
Announcements provide a way to communicate information about upcoming events and other important news. Announcements can be published to the Campus application as well as to the Portal, for a specific school, or for the entire district.
Announcements can also be created by State Edition users. See the Announcements for State Edition Users documentation for more information.
Announcement Setup - School
Announcement Setup - District Wide, Publish to Portal LoginSee the Announcement Setup Tool Rights article for information on available tool rights.
Announcement Setup - District Wide vs. School
A user with rights to publish announcements who can select All Schools in the Context Switcher will be able to view, add, and manage District-Wide announcements. Otherwise, the user will be limited to working with announcements for the school or schools they have permission to select from the Context Switcher.
The Announcement list displays messages created for the school that is selected in the Context Switcher, or District Wide messages (messages that display for all district schools) if All Schools is selected in the Context Switcher.
Create New Announcement
- From the Context Switcher, verify that you have selected the school for which you'd like to create a message (or All Schools if creating a Disrtrict Wide message).
- Click the New icon. An Announcement Detail editor displays.
- Enter the Start Date of the message. Leave blank if you wish the message to display immediately when it is saved.
- Enter the End Date of the message. Leave blank if you wish the message to display until the message is manually deleted.
- Mark the appropriate checkboxes for where the message should be viewable.
- Publish to Campus - Campus application users
- Publish to Portal - Student and Parent Portal users
- Publish to Portal Login (District Wide only) - Student and Parent Portal login screen
- Sticky - moves message to top of user's screen. At least one Publish option must also be selected.
- Enter the text of the message. Use the options in the toolbar to format text or add tables, images, or URL links. Embedded images cannot exceed 1mb.
- Click the Save icon when finished. The message will display in the selected locations beginning on the date entered in the Start Date field.
Manage Announcements
- Select the message from the Announcement List.
- Edit the message and Save if making changes (text, dates, etc.)
- Select Delete if you wish to remove it from the Announcement List. If the message was still active, Delete removes it from the locations to which it was published.
