Setting Message of the Day options

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Note: To complete the procedures in this document, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles: Overview.

Setting Message of the Day options in your My Workspace

In the Home tool of your My Workspace, you will see announcements from all the sites to which you belong. The Message of the Day options control how many announcements appear in this space.

To set Message of the Day options for your My Workspace, follow these steps:

  1. In My Workspace, click Home.

  2. Under "Message of the Day", click Options.

  3. You can choose to show only the subject of the recent announcements from the sites to which you belong (Show announcement subject) or show the entire text of the announcements (Show announcement body). Additional options for displaying announcements include how many lines to display, how many days in the past to display announcements from, and the number of announcements. Enter or choose your desired options in the boxes provided, and then click Update.

Setting MOTD options as a site administrator

To set MOTD options for a site as a site administrator, follow these steps:

Note: To use this tool, you must have administrator rights.

  1. In My Workspace, click MOTD.

  2. At the top of the screen, click Options.

  3. Choose your desired options for how you want announcements to display, and then click Update.