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A title is required. You will want to add something eye-catching, if possible.

Post

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Status:

When selecting your post status you will be given four options to choose from: Active, Draft, Scheduled, and Archived. An Active post means that it will be live immediately after it is created. A draft is simply a post that isn’t quite ready to be live yet. Scheduled posts will become live once you select your desired dates and times. Lastly, archived posts are any posts that you do not wish to delete permanently but would to be removed/hidden from your announcement feed(s) as you continue to create new announcements. Once you have decided on which content you would like to be live on your feed, your posts will be ordered chronologically by post date with the newest post showing first.

Priority Active:

The priority toggle allows you to overwrite the default order and set your priority item at the top of the post.

You can set your priority setting to Top, Mid, Low priority if your site is a district. If you are a school site, you will only have mid to low priority. Your district can post items above your posts. If you are wondering how a post got on your page, someone at the district probably wants it there.

Post to School Sites:

If you are a district, you can post important posts to your school sites. We suggest you only push posts to the school sites that are important district wide notifications. Otherwise, we recommend you allow schools to update their own announcements.

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Although most schools have one main announcement feed on their landing page, you are welcome to use the announcement feature and add additional feeds throughout your website. Some examples of additional feeds would be: job boards, sporting events or activities, and afterschool events.

Priority Active:

The priority toggle allows you to overwrite the default order and set your priority item at the top of the post.

You can set your priority setting to Top, Mid, Low priority if your site is a district. If you are a school site, you will only have mid to low priority. Your district can post items above your posts. If you are wondering how a post got on your page, someone at the district probably wants it there.after school events.

Categories

You can also add categories to you post, which will allow your post to be sorted more accurately.

Content

Now you are set up to add the content to your post! Add Text, Pictures and Documents.For example, if your announcement post is about an upcoming sporting event you may want to include ‘sports’ and/or ‘after school’ to your categories list.

Content

After inputting all of the basic information to get your post set up for success, you are now ready to add the content! You can add text, pictures, videos, and/or documents to your post depending on what you are trying to achieve. Make sure when adding any attachments you hit ‘save’ before continuing or that attachment will not show up in your post once it is ready to be live. Also note that any pictures or visuals require a simple alt tag description in order to remain ADA compliant!

When you are done, hit SAVE POST and your announcement will be automatically added to your announcement feed on your websites.

Sharing to Social Media

Finally, if you would like to share to social media, hit share post and select facebook Facebook or twitterTwitter. The first time you do this, make sure you allow popups from this site and share as a page.

Remember all of this is mobile responsive and can be used from your cell phone!

After you create a post…

Remember, you will be shown three main options on the left side of each of your individual announcement posts and these are: Edit, Share, and Delete. So if you need to make any changes or adjustments you can hit ‘edit’ and go right back into your post. If you wish to share to social media (as mentioned above) or permanently delete a post altogether you can do so easily with these three functions!

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