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Announcements
Includes
Description
Examples of use
Announcement list
Creating an announcement
Posting an announcement that you previously
saved as a draft
Adding an attachment to an announcement
Deleting an announcement
Revising an announcement
Description
Announcements
are used to inform site participants of current items of interest.
Announcements can have multiple attachments like documents or URLs.
Site owners and instructors can choose to have an announcement
automatically emailed to all of the site participants by using the
"required notification" setting shown below.
You can draft and save an announcement before you send it out to site
participants. Your drafts will be shown with a red "Draft" marker in your list of announcements.
Announcements from all sites you are a member of are displayed in your
My Workspace.
Above: An instructor or site
owner's view of creating a new announcement, with required notification
highlighted. This means all site participants will receive the
announcement in email as well as seeing it on the site.
UM Above: A
student's view of
Announcements for a sample site
Examples of use
Announcements is a useful place
to post a notice about an important change in deadlines, meeting times,
or meeting locations.
If it is critical that all
students
or site participants get an announcement, use "high" notification to
make sure the announcement is emailed to them.
Announcement list
When you click Announcements in the
menubar, you will see a list. To rearrange the list:
- click Subject
to arrange the announcement titles alphabetically. Click Subject
again to reverse the order.
- click From to
arrange the announcements by the author' last names. Click
again to reverse.
- click Date to
arrange the announcements chronologically. Click again to reverse.
Creating an announcement
1... Click Announcements
in the menubar.
2... Click New in the
upper left corner of the main window (to the right of the menubar).
3... In the form
that appears, type in a subject.
Note: Fields marked with a red dot are
required.
4.. Type the text
of the announcement.
5.. If you want to
add an attachment to your announcement, see the section "Adding an
attachment to an announcement," below.
6.. You can choose
to have your announcement emailed to participants.
- if you do not want it emailed, choose None -- No notification. (the default setting)
- if you want to send it to only those
participants who have chosen to receive only low-priority mail
notifications, choose Low.
- If you want *all* participants to see
it, choose High. (Participants have the option to choose
whether they want to all announcements or only hight priority
announcements.)
7... You
can then either post the announcement, preview it, or save it as a
draft. Drafts are visible to anyone with "maintain" access to the site.
- to post your announcement at this time,
click Post.
- to see how your announcement will look,
click Preview.
- to save your announcement as a draft,
click Save Draft.
Posting an announcement
that you previously saved as a draft
1...
Click on Announcements
in the menubar.
You will see one or more announcements
listed.
2...
Click on the title of your draft
announcement.
3..
In the window that appears, click Post.
Adding an attachment to an
announcement
1..
Complete steps 1 through 6 under
"Creating an announcement".
2..
Click the Add Attachments
button.
You can add any number and any combination of
types of attachments.
A... Attach
a local file from your computer.
A local file is a file that resides in your computer's hard
disk.
To add a local file, click the Local File...
button and then either:
- type in filename in the box
provided, or
- click Browse, find
the file in the list that appears, select it, and click Open.
- click the Attach button.
- click the Save button
to attach the item(s) to your announcement.
- click the Post button
to post your announcement. You can also preview your announcement or
save it as a draft.
B... Attach
a website URL.
To attach a URL, click the Website URL...
button and then:
- type the url in the box provided.
For example, www.umich.edu
- click the Attach button.
- click the Save button.
- click the Post button
to post your announcement.You can also preview your announcement or
save it as a draft.
C...
Attach an item from the resources
section of your website.
- click the From Resources
button...
- check the box(es) next to the
resource(s) you want to attach.
- click the Continue
button.
- click the Save button.
- in the next window, click the Post button
to post your announcement.You can also preview your announcement or
save it as a draft.
Note:
After you have created your attachment, remember to Post, Preview, or Save a Draft
of your announcement.
Deleting an announcement
1..
Click Announcements
in the menubar.
2...
Check the box(es) next to the
announcement(s) you want to delete.
3..
Click the Delete button.
4...
You will see a confirmation screen.
Click Delete or Cancel.
Revising an announcement
1..
Click Announcements
in the menubar.
2...
Check the box next to the announcement
you want to revise. (You can only revise one announcement at a time.)
3...
Click the Revise button.
4..
Make the desired changes to the
announcement.
You can either Post or Preview your
revised announcement, or Save a
Draft.
September 2,
2004
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