Announcements is your new way to communicate important updates to all of your employees. Using Announcements, you can inform all evaluagent users of an upcoming change to a scorecard, an internal competition you may be running or even how you're listening to their feedback. Once published, users will receive a notification, and the announcement will appear as a banner on everyone's dashboard until it expires.

In this quick start guide, we'll cover:

Please note, you must have permission to Manage Announcements. Permissions can be updated within the section.

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Go to Community > Click Announcements > Click the New tab

Fill in the announcement title and details, set the date it should appear, and select its importance level.

Things to note:

Upon publishing the announcement, it will appear in the second tab on this page, named "Previous Announcements".

When the Announcement Start Date is reached, the announcement will become visible on the dashboard of every user who has permission to "View Announcements".

By default, all users have this permission, and they will receive an email and an in-app notification indicating that there is a new Announcement to view.

The Announcement will appear as a bar along the top of the screen with the headline. To view the details on the Announcement, click the "View details" button. Once clicked, the complete announcement will appear in a pop-up modal.

If multiple Announcements exist, you will see a scroll bar. This feature allows you to scroll back and forth between all active Announcements.

This behaves like all Notifications inside the platform. Click into your Inbox and the "View Announcement" button within each Notification. This will redirect you to the dashboard and show the Announcement within the pop-up.

It is recommended that when you create an announcement, you set an expiry date. Once the expiry time and date have been reached, the system will automatically unpublish your Announcement, and it will no longer be visible to users.

Alternatively, you can manually turn an Announcement off by taking the following steps:

To edit an Announcement, follow these steps:

Please check your permissions. Only admins have the permission to publish Announcements by default.

Please check their permissions within User Management. If you have created a new role since Announcements was activated on your account, you may have accidentally missed this permission.

Check with your other admins, as they may have corrected a spelling mistake or updated the end date. Announcements are a shared feature, and anyone with permission to manage Announcements can make these changes.

If you have any questions after reading this support material, please contact the evaluagent support team.