Creating Daily Messages

Objective

To outline 3 ways you can create "Daily Messages"

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Daily Messages

Click "Features" then click "Daily Messages"

  

Daily Messages are great for including quick, digestible information about the day.

Some examples include: Block Schedule(A/B/C Days), Early Release Days, No School or any day themed announcements.

3 ways to create Daily Messages

(1) "Importing" (a csv file)
(2) manually entering the messages in the "Calendar View" or "List View"
(3) inserting an "iCal URL"

For both the Importing and "iCal URL" options, the "Daily Messages" are pulled from them and automatically created.

Detailed information about each way:

Importing

The formatted template is available to edit and save for your School. Then simply drag the Excel file into the attachment section or browse to select one to Import.

Calendar View / List View

Manually create "Daily Messages"

Here you can click on a day to Create "Daily Messages" and you can also select "Edit" to directly edit the "Daily Messages".

iCal URL

Inserting your school or districts "iCal URL" here will pull the days events and create "Daily Messages" from them.

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