For District Admins: Announcements

This article contains the following:
1. Overview
2. Creating announcements
3. Announcement preview
4. Setting a priority notification

Overview

District Admins can send announcements to various district users in Clever! This article details the process for creating, previewing and sharing announcements.

Creating announcements

To create an announcement for users in your district:

• Navigate to the Portal > Communication page in your district dashboard.
• Select 'Create notification', and then complete the form.
  • Dates: When should this announcement appear? 
    • The announcement will be visible in the Clever Portal for selected users between 12:00AM on the Start Date and 11:59PM on the End Date (in your district's time zone)
  • Title & Body: What should this announcement say? 
    
    • You can create an announcement of up to 250 characters for your users to see.
  • Visibility: Who should see this announcement?
    
    • Students, teachers and/or staff
  • Links (Optional): Add a link to more information
    • You can include a hyperlink to direct users to resources or additional information.
• Once the announcement is created, you will be able to see whether it is 'Live', 'Upcoming' or 'Expired' for the selected users in Clever.

Please note: Notifications for users in your district can be created by district-level admins and School Tech Leads. For more information on user roles, click here. 

Announcement preview

When a selected user logs in to Clever, they will see a bell icon in the top-right corner with the number of unread notifications. They can click on the bell icon to open the announcement.

Setting a priority notification

A priority notification can also be assigned to announcements. Priority notifications will display at the top of the list for selected users. Only one notification can be priority across the entire district. 

• To set a notification as priority, select the star icon in the 'Actions' column. Priority notifications will also be noted under the 'Status' column.
  
  
• Priority notifications will display in the Clever Portal at the top of the notifications dropdown and are denoted with a blue star. 

FAQs

How do School Tech Leads create announcements?

• School Tech Leads can create announcements for the schools they are connected to. For instructions on how School Tech Leads can create announcements, visit: For School Tech Leads: Creating announcements

Can I create an announcement for select schools?

• Announcements can only be filtered by User Type. If you wish to create an announcement for a specific school, we recommend adding a School Tech Lead for the school and posting the announcement from the STL user account. Directions on adding School Tech Leads can be found here.