The Catapult announcement feature helps users collate and distribute information on the homepages of their districts and schools. The announcement feature give 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 account
Click on announcements. If you have access to multiple school sites, you will need to select your school site, if you only have access to one site it will go straight in to your editing screen.
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 which can be integrated upon request.
Add a New Post
Post Details:
Title:
Title is required, you will want to add something eye catching if possible.
Post Dates:
You can back date, or forward date the post date. Posts will be ordered chronologically by post date with the newest post showing first.
The “End Date” is not required. If you add an end date, it will disappear from your site at the end of the date you post. Many districts choose to leave the end date blank so posts will remain on the site as an archive in the see all announcements section.
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:
You can have multiple feeds at a school site. Ask a Catapult representative to help you create one.
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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