The Catapult Announcement feature helps users collate and distribute information on the homepages of their district and schools. The Announcement feature gives you the ability to prioritize announcements, integrate with social media and post news directly from your mobile device. Districts can also push important announcements to their school sites.
Instructions
To add an announcement:
Login to your Catapult CMS account.
Click on Announcements at top of page:
or click on Announcements/Blog on the Dashboard:
3. If you have access to multiple school sites, you will need to find your school site and click Load Announcements:
If you have access to only one site, you will go straight in to your editing screen.
4. Select a Feed: The first time you login, you will also need to select which feed you are accessing. Most districts have only one feed for the homepage of each site; however, the software has the capability to integrate multiple feeds, such as District, School and Athletics announcement feeds.
5. Click New Post and add information, using the following instructions.
Post Details:
Title:
A title is required. You will want to add something eye-catching, if possible.
Post Dates:
When selecting your post status you will be given four options to choose from: Active, Draft, Scheduled, 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). 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.
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.
Feeds:
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.
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.
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 or twitter. 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.
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