Overview

From time to time, you will have general important announcements to students. Paradigm supports this need by giving you the option to display your announcements via the Student Summary screen and keeping track of all the announcements you’ve made by saving them as data resources in the system. This knowledge article will guide you on how to create/add a new announcement and how to remove/hide them for instances when they are no longer applicable/relevant.

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Workflow

The announcements that you are making are being stored and kept track of as data resources in your business or institution. Each time you make an announcement, you also have to create a new data resource content in Paradigm. The instructions below will guide you on how to do it:

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title Create or Add a New Announcement
Create or Add a New Announcement Status colour Blue title step 1 Create a New Data Resource Choose Providers > Add Content menus on the side, and go to the EDIT DATA RESOURCE section. Status colour Green title 1 Select the Student summary announcement option as your Purpose. Status colour Green title 2 Enter a Data Resource Name – this will serve as the title/heading of your announcement Status colour Green title 3 Enter your announcement details/texts in the Data section. Status colour Green title 4 Click the SAVE DATA RESOURCE button. NOTE: Permission Level field – it’s currently set as the Staff Members Access as the default. You can change this field to higher-level access depending on your intention. Refer to the notes section above this page. Status colour Blue title step 2 View your announcement under the Student Summary screen Choose Student > Summary menus on the side. You should now see your announcement in the ANNOUNCEMENTS section at the very top of the student summary screen. NOTE: The author/name on the right is the the user who created the announcement and the exact date and time the announcement was published. back to top

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title Remove/Hide an Announcement in the Student Summary screen
Remove/Hide an Announcement in the Student Summary screen Status colour Blue title step 1 Load the data resource containing the announcement that you want to remove/hide. Choose Providers > Search Content menus on the side, and go to the DATA RESOURCE SEARCH section. Status colour Green title 1 Enter your search criteria, or you can select the Student summary announcement option as the Purpose. Status colour Green title 2 Click the SEARCH DATA RESOURCE button. It will return a list of data resources depending on your set searched criteria. You can further down your search by typing a keyword on the search box filter above the result list. Status colour Green title 3 Select the data resource that you want to remove/hide from the Student Summary screen by clicking on the hyperlink under the Data Resource Number column or clicking on the EDIT button (pencil icon) against the data resource. Status colour Green title 4 With the EDIT DATA RESOURCE section open, go to the Status field. Select either the Deleted or Deactivated status and click the SAVVE DATA RESOURCE button to save the changes. Status colour Blue title step 2 Confirm in the Student Summary screen if the announcement has been removed/hidden. Choose Student > Summary menus on the side. You should not be able to see/view now the announcement that you just changed the status to deleted/deactivated. back to top

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