Broadcast company updates and announcements to your users through the News Editor. You can also choose to email updates to your staff with the click of a button. Simply write your news update, consider adding relevant links or images, then assign it to user groups.
Adding a News Category
1. Click on the ‘Categories’ tab
2. Click ‘Add categor
3. Add a category title
4. Add a description
5. Click ‘Save’
Add News
1. Click on the ‘News’ tab
2. Click ‘Add news’
3. Add a title
4. Set the status. Published: News article is live and can be viewed. Draft: Keeps news hidden from users
5. Add a publish and removal date. Learners won’t be able to view the news article until the selected publish date and won’t be able to view after the removal date
6. Toggle YES/NO to email news to users. This is useful for important news updates
7. Click ‘Choose file’ to upload a thumbnail image
8. Click the ‘Description’ link
9. Add a summary
10. Add content using CK Editor options to make the article engaging
11. Click the ‘Assign to Groups’ link
12. Assign news article to the relevant group(s)
13. Click ‘Save’
Queued Job for News Emails
Admins can now configure whether news emails are sent immediately or scheduled for later. Previously, news emails were always added to a cron job for scheduled delivery. With this enhancement, Admins have greater flexibility in determining when emails should be sent.
- A new option is available in the Add News page. If the Published Date is set to today and the Send news to users via email and alerts? toggle is enabled, Admins will see two additional options:
- Send Now – News emails are added to a Queued job and sent in batches shortly after the news is saved.
- Send Later – News emails remain in the cron job, but now the cron triggers a queued job to handle email distribution instead of sending directly.
- Send Now: When Admin select the option Send now, emails will add to the queue immediately.
- Run 'Queued Jobs' to send them out.
- It will add into the queued job as below.
2. Send Later: Emails wait until the scheduled day.
- Run 'News Emailer' to add them to the queue.
- Run 'Queued Jobs' to send them out.