Edit Site Categories in News Settings

Objective

Illustrate how Administrators can edit Site Categories in News Settings in the Dashboard.

Navigate to the News section of the Menu

Then select Settings

Select Categories

And you will be on the Site Categories tab

Event Alerts - Daily or Weekly are System default alerts set up during app deployment and cannot be deleted, but can be edited.

Select the Edit pencil icon to the right of the Site Category you would like to edit

Edit the News Category

You can:

- edit the icon choosing a new icon from the Library or Uploading from your device.

- Pin the category to a Position (1 (of 3), for example)

- check that it is a System Category (for automated feed only)

- check to Allow Teachers to Post News (meaning Teachers could chose this Category to share news items to)

- un-check to Opt-in new users by default (when new users download the app, if this is checked, they automatically see this news category)

Select Apply and then select Ok when you make any changes for them to be applied and saved:

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