Announcement Editor

The announcement editor interface allows you to compose the announcement (including formatting and, optionally, including images and videos) as well as to set a variety of display-based options. As you compose your announcements, keep in mind that announcements are available to all devices and all screen sizes. For example, be sure to include some text within your announcement (instead of having an announcement just be a single image, for example) to make sure that your announcement is visible to those using accessibility devices to access WCONLINE. Finally, once you’ve composed (or edited) your announcement, select “Add Announcement” or “Save Changes” to save the announcement and display it immediately within WCONLINE.

Note that announcements are always displayed from the most recently added to the oldest. Therefore, if you want a given announcement to appear on the top of a list of announcements, you would need to add it last. You can also control the order by grouping all of your announcements into a single announcement and then simply editing that single announcement to control the display.

Announcement Text: This is the announcement as displayed on your site. You can use the what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor to format your message (or you can compose the message in a word processor and then copy it into the editor, which will retain most formatting). The editor also allows you to include images in announcements. Finally, if you have a video that is available publicly online, you can include it by entering the direct link or embed code after selecting the “film” icon.

Display Date: This determines whether or not the date that an announcement was added or last edited is displayed with the announcement. If set to “No,” then the Announcement Text is displayed without any additional information (such as the date).

Administrative Only: Announcements are typically available to everyone. If you would like an announcement to be only shown to basic and full administrators, then set this option to “Yes.” Only announcements that are set to appear on a schedule or on all schedules (as set below) can be set to be available to administrators only (as WCONLINE doesn’t know if someone is an administrator until after they log in and, therefore, can’t display login page announcements to administrators only).

Visibility: This setting determines where the announcement will appear:

• LOGIN PAGE: If this option is selected, the announcement will be displayed to the right of the login form on the main login page when viewing the page from devices with larger screens. On smaller screens (and from most accessibility devices), the announcements are available via a link that reads, “Looking for more information? View the announcements.”
• ALL SCHEDULES: If this option is selected, the announcement will be displayed at the top of every schedule when viewing the page from devices with larger screens. On smaller screens (and from most accessibility devices), the announcements are available via a link that reads, “Looking for more information? View the announcements.”
• [SCHEDULE TITLE] SCHEDULE: If this option is selected (where “[SCHEDULE TITLE]” is the name of one of your schedules), then the announcement will be displayed only at the top of the selected schedule when viewing the page from devices with larger screens. On smaller screens (and from most accessibility devices), the announcements are available via a link that reads, “Looking for more information? View schedule-specific announcements.”