News articles provide a simple way to share updates and information with trainees.
You can create articles, set when they should be published and use tags to help manage them.
Before you start
From the dashboard, go to the Library tab and select News Articles.
You'll see a list of existing news articles on this page.
Creating a news article
From the dashboard go to the library tab, and select News articles.
Select Create new article.
- Enter the following details:
- Headline - add the title or subject of the news article.
- Publication date - select the date and time the news article should be published. The article will not be displayed to users until this time and date,
- Body- add the content of the news article. You can format the text using options such as bold, italic and bullet points.
- Backdrop - add an image to display with the news article on the trainee dashboard.
- Tag (optional) - add a tag if you want to issue the news article based on a tag.
Select Create article.
Once you have created the news article, you can find it in the list on the main News articles page.
Note: As with modules, documents and news articles still require to be allocated to users before notification emails are sent letting the user know the items are displayed in Spark.