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This support page describes how to post an a notice to the Notices block on your Myplace class page. Notices are the main method for sending information to classes (or groups within classes) and are displayed to students via Myplace (on their homepage and in each of the classes), in the Mobile App and delivered by email to their Strathclyde email address. |
See also
Step-by-step guide
Instructions
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Starting a Notice
You can post a notice in Myplace by clicking on the same green button as you would to post a notice in a class or on your home page.
Class page button to post a notice.
Home page button to post a notice.
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Choose your target audience
, as you would when posting a notice. You might have the option to send a public advert (one which targets all users of Myplace). If you request a public advert it will be sent to a moderation queue before being published. Otherwise you can choose your audience by clicking on 'Choose' and selecting which class, programme or groups within depending on the access level you currently hold.4) In Publication Dates you can define the Start Date and End Date.
5) In the send notice section you can define what you want your advert to contain. Add a subject, a style, the text for the advert title and the text for the body of the advert. The text you enter into your title will be previewed in the highlighted area.
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The advert may be resized to fit appropropriately, so please do not include substantial amounts of text in the body of the advert. You are limited to a maximum of 550 characters. Should you need to include a large amount of text, please consider placing this on a web page that is linked to the advert. |
6) Also in the send notice section you can choose to link the advert to a URL (weblink). This means that when clicked the advert will direct the Myplace user to a webpage.
7) Then choose an appropriate image for your advert and the Tint Colour which will allow you to choose a colour from the defined brand colours to surround your title with. See Advert Image Specification for help with choosing and editing an image.
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Adverts will be displayed either on the public front page of Myplace (if it's a public advert) or in the Notices block of the relevant class. Consequently the size will be adjusted to suit the space. The advert image will focus around the centre of the image so please keep this in mind when posting your image. |
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If you launched the Post Notice option from within a class, it will be defaulted to the Class.
To target courses or groups
To change the target audience, click on the Choose button.
You may target:
- whole classes
- one or more groups within a class
- one or more groupings within a class
- combinations of the above
To select / deselect a target click on the checkbox to the left hand side.
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You can use the > arrows to expand Classes to show the groups and groupings within that class. |
To target specific users
You can also type or paste registration numbers, DS usernames, or emails separated by spaces or commas.
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| Email addresses, Registration numbers and DS usernames will be recognised and checked against the database of Myplace users. |
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Anything which cannot be recognised as a registration number, DS username or email address will display a warning symbol, and will prevent the message from being sent until removed. |
Compose your notice
In the Send Notice section of the form you will compose the message that will be sent to the students.
You may use formatting in the message, but please do not insert images as these will not always display if the students read the notice in their email clients
Add any attachments.
If you have any files you wish to be sent alongside the notice then you can use the Attachments section to upload these to Myplace.
These will be displayed in the notice when viewed in Myplce and will be emailed to students too
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Most email systems will restrict the size of attachment that can be sent and received. So please do not use this for distributing large files. |
Additional Notifications
The notice will be sent to all of the students in the selected audiences, however if you wish to include other roles, such as a tutors or lecturers, then you can select these roles.
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Notices are always sent to the student role, you cannot remove this and only send to one of the additional roles shown here. |
Copy Me In
If you wish to receive a copy of the notification tick this box
Send as Me
Normally notices will be sent from Myplace and recipients cannot reply to the email version.
If you tick this box the notice will be sent as you and recipients will be able to reply directly to you from the email version of the notification.
Preview / Send
You can click on the Preview button to see what the notification will look like when viewed in Myplace.
Click on the Send button to submit the notice. The notice will appear straight away in Myplace and be queued for delivery via email.
Once submitted it is not possible to recall or retract the notice.
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