Welcome tab
On the Welcome tab the user needs a school of 700 in combination with an AD, S0, PR and/or SI profile, in User Management, to post messages for employees to read. Graphs will also display on the welcome tab.
Create a Notification
To create a notification, click on the icon below the Welcome tab that looks like a sheet of paper with a yellow asterisk to create an announcement. The Announcement Editor will display.
Announcement Editor - "Country", "State" and "District" should be pre-set based on security.
- If a user is at the school level, School will be pre-set as well.
- For district level users, School will be editable.
School - To show the message to all schools, select all schools in the school selection list. Otherwise, select only the desired schools from the pick list.
Title - Type a brief description of the message.
Sticky - Check to make sure the most recent message will always be at the top.
Profile - User with an AD, SO, PR or SI security.
Start Date - The date that the message will be visible.
End Date - The date that the Sticky expires and the announcement drops back to it's original order. Note that messages never completely disappear from the Welcome page.
Message - Type the message in the blank area.
- Use the set of tools for selecting the font and font size, justify options, to make bold, italic or underlined and to change the font and background color.
Save - Click when the message is complete.
The message will appear immediately on the Welcome tab page.
- 700 users will only see messages created for school 700.
- To see messages for all schools, regardless of the end date, check the box labeled Show All. The user must have a profile of AD, SI, SO, or PR to see the Show All checkbox.
Click the 
to edit an existing message.
Click the 
to delete an existing message.
Edit the Enrollment Graph
- To edit the enrollment graph on the Welcome Tab for current day counts, go to the Dashboard tab.
- NOTE: If the user does not have permission to Dashboard, then contact their district personnel.
- Select the "Welcome Screen" (not tab) from the top center selector area.
- If the Welcome Screen is not already displaying, then click in the top center selector area to see the "User Dashboard(s)" popup box and choose "Welcome Screen".
- Click on the "i" inspector icon to get the "Dashboard Inspector Setup" box.
- At the top, make sure the school "Year" is current.
- At the bottom, change the "As Of Date" to be the current date or blank.
- Click the "OK" button.
