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This documentation refers to an old version of Accudemia 7.0 and has been replaced by Accudemia 9.0:
Accudemia 9.0 - Control Panel > Announcements

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Announcements

Purpose: Edit the information displayed in My Homepage (What users see when they log in to the back-end of Accudemia) under the Google Calendar, College News, or Center News.
How to Access: Administration > Control Panel > Announcements

Homepage

NOTE: Only one Shared Google Calendar can be set at the college level.

Shared Google Calendar

  • Google Shared Calendar ID: Use this field if you want to share a group calendar created on Google. Enter the ID of a shared Google Calendar. You can get it from the calendar settings at http://www.google.com/calendar. Copy the email address that is next to the Calendar Address label, ie: 65as1d6asd1a6s1325as58f4as3@group.calendar.google.com

College News or Center News

  • Title: This option allows you to add a heading to the top of the News that is displayed.
  • Teaser: Use the Teaser section to write a few lines that you want to show on the News panel that appears on all users' homepages before clicking on the View Announcement button and reading the full news article.
  • Welcome Text: Use the WYSIWYG Editor to change the display of information for the Center or the College selected previously. On this screen, change the News panel that appears when users click the “View full announcement” option on the Homepage Announcements section.
TIP: WYSIWYG (pronounced wiz-ee-wig) is a type of editing software that allows users to see and edit content in a form that appears as it would when displayed on an interface, webpage, slide presentation, or printed document. WYSIWYG is an acronym for “what you see is what you get.”

You can include items such as hours of operation, holiday notices, extended hours during finals week, or anything else you want you to want to announce to all users of the system. Advanced users can manipulate the source code to create a totally customized news page as shown above.

Each Center can have custom announcements displayed, but they do not overwrite the College-Level announcements. All announcements are shown in the order they are posted on the My homepage in the College News that all users see when they login to Accudemia.

Student logged into Accudemia with the College News showing:

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