Announcements are a core communication tool within Minga. They allow you to share news and updates directly to the Home Feed of your students and staff. This article contains everything you need to know about how to post announcements, schedule them for the future, and boost their visibility using pins and emails.
Permission level: Owner | Manager
In this article
Creating an announcement: How to draft and post an announcement to the Home Feed.
Advanced publishing settings: How to schedule posts, set expiration dates, and send emails.
Managing announcements: How to pin, edit, or delete existing posts.
Creating an announcement
Announcements appear in the Home Feed of all targeted users and trigger a push notification on mobile devices.
Step-by-Step
Step-by-Step
Navigate to the Home page.
Click the Add Post button.
Select Announcement from the post types.
Enter your message in the Headline field.
Use the Details field if you need to provide additional context or long-form information.
Once you're done editing, click 'Preview' to see how your announcement will look when published and Access Advanced Publish Settings.
Your announcement is now visible on the Home Feed, and targeted users will receive a push notification on their mobile devices.
Advanced publishing settings
You can control exactly when an announcement appears, when it disappears, and if it should be delivered via email.
Scheduling Your Announcement
You can specify the exact date and time you want this post to publish and unpublish from the home feed. This time is accurate to your school's time zone.
Pinning Your Post
You can pin your announcement to the top of the home feed for a specified amount of time (1-7 days).
Emailing Options
When published, either immediately or scheduled for later, Minga can also send an email. Toggle Send as Email to ON to reach users via their school email. To ensure the right audience receives the message, you can check specific user roles to email. Additionally, you can also include users who are in your Minga but haven't registered yet.
Emails will only be received if students can receive emails from sources outside of your school.
The Read-Only account type is a special student permission status. For more information on account types, please refer to the User Types article.
Announcement Commenting
When posting, you can choose individual user roles to have access to comment on the announcement. Owners and Managers can comment on every post by default.
Managing announcements
You can find all of your scheduled content under My Content if you need to change or edit it, before its scheduled posting time. After a post is live, you can modify its visibility or remove it entirely.
Find the announcement in the Home Feed.
Click the Three Dots (...) menu on the post.
Select Pin to top to keep the announcement at the very top of everyone's feed, regardless of new posts.
Select Edit to update the text or Delete to remove the post permanently.
FAQs
FAQs
Can I send an announcement to just Teachers?
You can send an announcement to specific roles by selecting the desired roles under the Advanced Publish Settings before you click post. This ensures only the selected roles see the post in their feed and receive the notification.
How do I make sure a post stays at the top of the feed?
You can make a post stay at the top of the feed by toggling the Pin this post option during creation or by selecting Pin to top from the post menu after it has been published.