Creating a General Announcement Template

Creating Announcement Templates allows you to use the same format for a message over and over again.

To create a template for your General Announcement

1. Click on Communications in the upper-left corner.
2. Hover over the Messages menu and click on New Announcement Template.

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• The Template Information is for internal use only, so your students will not see anything you type in this section.

3. Begin by typing a name for the new template in the Name field.

• This will allow you to easily locate the template after it has been created.

4. Type a description for the template in the Description field.

• This will allow you a brief overview of the purpose of this template.

5. Finally, you can add this template to an announcement category to help keep all of your announcement templates organized by typing a name in the Category field.

*NOTE: To add or manage your announcement categories list, go to the Settings menu and click on Announcement Categories.

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• The next section allows you to fill out all of the information that you would like on the template.
• This will be the information that will be set in the template that you can use in future messages and follows the same format of a General Announcement.

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6. After you have added all of the areas you would like to reuse, click the Save Template button at the bottom of the page.

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To use an Announcement that you have created

1. Hover over the Messages menu and click on Announcement Templates.

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2. Simply click on the category you saved the template under, and then click on the template itself.

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3. Create an announcement using this template is by clicking on the New Announcement button.

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