Overview

You may need to publish urgent Alerts for all Schools in your District in case of emergency or critical updates (e.g., all schools are closed for certain reasons).

If you need to publish an urgent update for a single school, please refer to the article Publishing Emergency Alert on Single School Site.

Prerequisites

To publish Alerts on the District-Wide Module, you need to be a member of the district Emergency News group. School Webmasters typically do not have access to post to this module as it is not school site-specific. If you need to be added to this group, please reach out to your District Admin.

Solution

Click the Add News button on your portal's homepage (If you do not see this button, then it is likely that you do not have the rights to publish alert messages).
- Alternatively, you may go to Groups > Emergency News Group and add news from there as described in subsequent steps.
Click on the checkbox for Emergency News in the Audience column.
Fill out the rest of the fields.
Click Publish.