Overview
Types of announcements:
Notices (show up in the announcement and activity feed; they do not show up on the dashboard)
Notices provide important information to a user’s activity feed. They may also be sent via a push notification or an email.
Examples:
- Policy announcement
- Important upcoming dates and deadlines (seven+ days out)
Event announcements should be posted within the Group to which the event belongs.
Alerts (show up on the dashboard and are given "priority announcement" status)
Alerts provide urgent, deadline-driven information to users (e.g., the last day to register for classes). Alerts are issued to the top of a user’s activity feed. They may also be sent via a push notification or an email.
An option allows publishers to allow for the dismissal of alerts or for users to acknowledge.
Examples:
- Action needed deadlines (three days or less out)
- Messages announcing a problem, outage, or closure of a critical function, such as water, power, parking, network, or online systems.
Related Policies and Articles
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