On this page:
Note: To complete these procedures, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles: Overview.
To add an announcement:
Announcements
.
Add
.
Note: Pasting text from Microsoft Word directly
into the WYSIWYG editor may result in garbled output, even
if the text appears correct in the editor. Instead, to insert
formatted text from a Word document, click the Paste from
Word
icon, place your cursor in the subsequent "Paste from Word"
text box, and then press Ctrl-v
in Windows, or
Cmd-v
on a Macintosh, to paste your copied
text. Using Ctrl-v
(or Cmd-v
) to paste is
the best method for preserving the formatting of the original Word
document. Click OK
to add the text to the item you are
composing.
Note: If you don't see the Display to selected
groups
option, no groups or sections are associated with your
site; see Managing groups.
Show
to release your
announcement or Hide
to hide it, or select Specify
Dates
, and then select a beginning date and ending date for the
file's visibility.
Note: If you choose to specify dates, any email notifications will be sent out on the specified beginning date.
Email Notification
drop-down list, select the appropriate option:
None - No
notification
(the default setting).
Low - Only
participants who have opted in
.
High - All
participants
.
Note: Participants can choose whether they want to receive all announcements or only high-priority announcements.
Add Announcement
. To
preview your announcement, click Preview
. To cancel, click
Cancel
.
To edit an announcement:
Announcements
.
Edit
.
Note: If you don't have sufficient rights to edit a particular announcement, you will not see the option to revise it. Also, you can edit only one announcement at a time.
Save Changes
, Preview
, or
Cancel
.
To delete one or more announcements:
Announcements
.
Note: If you don't have sufficient rights to delete a particular announcement, you will not see a box next to its title.
Update
button.
Remove
or Cancel
.