Sakai Tutorials
Creating an Announcement

To create an announcement, access the Announcements tool and follow these steps:

1. If you do not see the Announcements menu bar, click the Reset button.
   
   
2. Click the Add button in the Announcements menu bar. Sakai displays the Add Announcement screen.
   
   
   
   
3. In the Announcement title box, enter the subject of your announcement. An entry in the Announcement title box is required.
   
   
4. In the Body box, use the icons and pulldown lists to create and format the body of your announcement. An entry in the Body box is required. 
   
   
5. In the Access section, select whether or not to display your announcement to people outside your site. If you have sections or groups active within this site, you may choose to display the announcement only to specific groups. To do so, check Display to selected groups. Then check the boxes next to the groups or sections to which you want to display the announcement. (For information about creating groups, see “Site Editor: Managing Groups ” in Chapter 4 of the Sakai Manual.)
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. In the Availability section, indicate if and when you want to make this announcement available for viewing.
   
   
   • To display the announcement immediately, click Show.
   • To hide it from view until further notice, click Hide. This action saves a draft of your announcement but does not publish it.
   • To display it beginning on a particular date and time, click Beginning and use the pulldown lists to specify the starting date and time.
   • To remove it from display on a particular date and time, click Ending and use the pulldown lists to specify the ending date and time.
     
     
     
7. To add an attachment, click the Add Attachments button. If you are unsure now to add an attachment, view the Add an Attachment tutorial.. The CLE displays the file name in the Attachments section.
   
   
   
8. Select an option from the Email Notification pulldown box to indicate whether site participants should receive an email when this announcement is posted.
   
   
   
   
   

   Option	Description
   None - No notification	Send no email notification.
   High - All Participants	Send an email notification to every participant when the announcement is created.
   Low - Only participants who have opted in	Send email notification to those participants who have chosen to receive low-priority mail notifications. Participants set preferences to specify whether and how they want to receive low-priority announcements. For information about the Preferences tool, refer to Chapter 4.

   
   
9. Choose one of these options:
   • To add this announcement, click the Add Announcement button. The CLE adds the announcement and displays the Announcements home page.
   • To return to the Announcements home page without adding an announcement, click Clear.
   • To preview the announcement, click the Preview button. The CLE displays the Announcement Preview screen.

After viewing the announcement in preview mode, click Add Announcement to Feedback or click Cancel to return to the Add Announcement screen.