All of the administration settings to control the way News behaves in your instance are available to a Superuser at your school. These settings give you a lot of options to create and distribute News in your instance. Please read the following guide carefully to understand the implications of these settings.
NOTE: The following settings can only be accessed by a Superuser.
Access the Administration > News tab to set up the options for News in your school.
From this page you can set the following options:
Moderator list
There is a list of news moderators available at the top of the page.
If no moderators are set, a Superuser can assign moderation permissions by searching for a user in the Administration > User tab, then modifying their permissions on the User Detail page.
Allow staff to post to global audiences
If you have this switched to off, staff will only be able to post news to pages or folders where they have write access. If that page or folder has a group or class attached, the news will appear on a news component on the page, however it will also appear in the dashboard news of all the members of the group or class.
Enable Moderation
If this feature is turned on in your instance, some news articles will need to be reviewed by a moderator prior to publication. The news that will enter moderation is that which is targeted at an audience from one of the following segments:
- Campus
- Roles
- Houses
- Year Level
NOTE: If you have group pages that are aimed at the above segments, the author must choose the audience segment, not the group page in order to allow moderation.
Staff with “moderate” news permissions will have the ability to modify, publish, delete, or reject news that enters moderation. Even if moderation is enabled, staff will be able to post news to a class or group without moderation if they have write access to that class or group page.
Enable Comments
If this is enabled, the author of an article can choose to enable comments on the article.
Default News Archiving Period
News will initially have their default expiry date set to the current datetime plus this value. A user creating news will be able to set a different expiry date, if they wish.
Default Publishing Period
News will initially have their default publish date set to the current datetime plus this value. The user creating the news will be able to set a different publish date, if they wish.
Read More
If you want to prompt your audience to read beyond the blurb and view news articles in full, you can add a read more link, which will display if a news article is truncated. Whatever you enter in this field will become the link text for this function. If you leave this field blank, there will be no prompt on the truncated article.
Saving Articles
If this toggled to on, users will be able to add an article to their saved list.
Select the Layout of your News
Use the drop-down arrow to select if you wish to have the news as a:
- List - with the images on the left
- List - with the images on the right
- Card - displaying three articles side-by-side
Select if you wish to have a 'Fallback Image'
If the author of the article does not select a feature image, the default for a feature image for that article can be selected. Use the drop-down arrow to select:
- No image
- The school logo
- The portrait of the author
Save
Ensure you click the Save button after you make any changes to this area.
News Topics
You can view the available News Topics as a list on this page.
NOTE: If you select ‘Modify List’ you will be taken to the Administration > Lists > News Topics area, where you can modify the available news topics.
NOTE: News notifications will not be sent to groups with muted folder settings.