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article will guide you on how to create/add a new announcement and how to remove/hide them for instances when they are no longer applicable/relevant.
NOTE:
The intention of this screen is for students to read your general important announcements relevant to their studies, etc. thus we’re setting the Permission Level to the lowest possible access as the default. However, if you want to create/add announcements that are intended only for higher-level access users, you can still do so by changing the Permission Level field.
Workflow
The announcements that you are making are being stored and kept track 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:
Create or Add a New Announcement
STEP 1 Create a New Data Resource
Choose Providers > Add Content menus on the side, and go to the EDIT DATA RESOURCE section.
1 Select the Student summary announcement option as your Purpose.
2 Enter a Data Resource Name – this will serve as the title/heading of your announcement
3 Enter your announcement details/texts in the Data section.
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.
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.
If you want to remove/hide the announcement that you added to the Student Summary screen, all you need to do is change the Status of your saved data resource, and the ANNOUNCEMENTS section will be updated accordingly. Refer to the instructions below:
Remove/Hide an Announcement in the Student Summary screen
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.
1 Enter your search criteria, or you can select the Student summary announcement option as the Purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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