Users and access

Post announcements

How-to guideFor data managers

Announcements appear on the HOME page, which every member of staff sees in Sisra Analytics. Juniper Education posts announcements about Sisra, and your school can post its own, for example to tell staff which reports are ready.

Before you start

You need an authority group with Create Announcement, such as Admin. Without it, Create Announcement does not appear on HOME. Authority groups and permissions explains how to give the action to a custom group.

Post an announcement

Select HOME.
Select Create Announcement. A form headed New Announcement opens above the list.
Enter a Title of up to 50 characters.
Enter the Description. Below the box, Characters Remaining: counts down from 750.
Choose who can see it in Privacy. See Choose who sees it.
To pin it to the top of the list, select Pin Announcement, the pin icon at the top of the form.
Select Submit.

HOME reloads with the message “Message successfully created”, and your announcement appears in the list. Sisra tags it School Announcement. You cannot add other tags.

The buttons above the description add bold, italics, a link, a numbered list or a bulleted list.

The New Announcement form with the title Test announcement and a two-sentence description. Below the box it reads Characters Remaining: 688/750. Privacy is set to Admin, and there are Cancel and Submit buttons. A pin icon is at the top right of the form. — A 62-character description leaves 688 of the 750 characters.

The new announcement card, dated 15 Oct, with Today 13:32, Created By: Robin Hale and Privacy: Admin, the text, and the orange School Announcement tag. — The announcement after it is posted.

Choose who sees it

Privacy	Who sees the announcement
Everybody (the default)	Everyone at your school who signs in to Sisra
Admin	Only staff whose authority group has Access Data Section, such as Admin. The card shows Privacy: Admin

Everyone at your school can read an Everybody announcement, so keep pupils’ and students’ personal details out of it.

Pin an announcement

A pinned announcement stays at the top of the list, above newer ones, and shows Pinned. Your school can pin one announcement at a time. If you pin a new one, Sisra unpins the old one.

To pin or unpin an announcement you have already posted, edit it and select Pin Announcement in the form.

Edit or remove an announcement

Your school’s announcements have a … button for staff with Create Announcement. Juniper’s announcements do not.

Select … on the announcement.
Select Edit or Remove.

Edit opens the same form in place of the announcement, still headed New Announcement. Make your changes and select Submit. The card then shows when it was edited, and by whom if someone else posted it.

Remove asks “Are you sure you wish to delete this announcement?”. Confirm, and Sisra shows “Message successfully deleted”. You cannot undo this.

The menu of a pinned announcement, open under its ... button, with Edit and Remove. — The menu on a school announcement.

USERS > Admin History records each announcement posted, edited or removed, under the area Message. See Administration History.

If something goes wrong

Create Announcement is missing. Your authority group does not have Create Announcement. Ask a Sisra administrator.

Some staff cannot see an announcement. Check its Privacy. An Admin announcement shows only to staff with Access Data Section.

The description will not take more text. Descriptions can be up to 750 characters, including spaces. Shorten the text, or link to a document instead.