How do I add a new announcement?

As an Administrator you can assign announcements to all active learners within your administrative scope. Similarly, you can assign publish policies to the announcement. You will have the ability to require that your learners acknowledge that they have read and understood the announcements. Also you can run Acknowledgement reports to determine which learners have acknowledged the announcement.

Please Note: All new Learners or inactive learners, whose status is changed to active, will gain access to all active and persistent announcements assigned within their reporting structure.

How

As an Elsevier Performance Manager (EPM) system administrator you have the ability to perform a wide range of tasks. Follow these steps to add an announcement:

1. Select Manage Announcements from the System menu selections. The Announcements screen displays. 
2. Click 'Add New'. The Create/Edit Announcement screen displays.
3. Enter a descriptive title for your new announcement in the Title field. 
4. Click on date in Start Date field to access the calendar functionality.
5. Select the announcement start date from the available calendar choices.

   • If you select the current date as the start date, the announcement will be visible immediately after the announcement is published.
6. Click on date in Expiration Date field to access the calendar functionality.
7. Select the announcement expiration date from the available calendar choices. .
8. Enable the checkbox that corresponds to the desired announcement property. The choices are:

   • High Importance – Enable to have a red exclamation point displayed along with the announcement title. 
   • Acknowledgement Required – Enable to require the learner to indicate they have read the announcement.
   • Persistent – Enable to require that the announcement remain visible to the learner after the announcement’s expiration date. 

   Please Note: When you enable the Persistent checkbox the announcement will remain on the learner’s page until it is archived.

9. Select the announcement type from the Announcement Type menu choices.
10. Select the acknowledgement text from the Acknowledgement Text menu choices.
11. Enable the checkbox that indicates where you want the announcement to display.

    • If the Acknowledgement Required checkbox in the Announcement Properties section is enabled, you can only select one place to display the announcement.
12. Enter the announcement text in the text entry section. Use the standard editing tools to accent your text as necessary.
13. Click the 'Save' button located below the text editor. The Create/Edit Announcement screen refreshes. A confirmation message displays at the top of the screen.

Note:  Continue creating the announcement by assigning policies or assigning learners. Publish the announcement to make it visible to learners.