Announcements & Messaging

The announcement manager is an Administrative tool used to send a notification to everyone who views the site. When you post a new notification, it appears across the top of the screen of the site's viewers.

The announcement manager is an Administrative tool used to send a notification to everyone who views the site. When you post a new notification, it appears across the top of the screen of the site's viewers.

To post a new announcement, select "Announcements" under the Users section of the Management Console. You will see a page that looks like this:

Click in the text boxes to input the time that you want the announcement to begin and end. Then enter the message that you want to appear across the top of viewers' screens. Remember, what you post as an announcement is seen by everyone who views the site.

Check the Sticky Notification box if you want to require users to click to close the notification.

All upcoming, current, and past announcements display on the right-side of the page in the Announcement Queue box. To the right, you see an example of what that Queue box looks like. Any upcoming announcements can be edited or deleted from the queue.

Administrators can always send messages to users on the site by using the User Management page.

You can also enable private User to User messaging in your Site Configuration Settings, which allows your users to message one another.

The "Message" button for each user allows an administrator to send an email to the email address provided by that user. Contacting a user directly should come before any moderating action against a user, unless the user's actions are flagrant or offensive.

If you have enabled private user-to-user messaging on your site, your users can send private messages to one another via the user profile pages.

User messages are sent via email to the email address listed for that user's account.

If you have enabled private user-to-user messaging on your site, all user message history is recorded in the User Messages Report.