Creating and managing Notices and Notice labels

The Notices page in SEQTA Teach is used to share information with staff, students and parents. Notices can be configured to display in SEQTA Learn and SEQTA Engage on the Notices page, or through the Notices app. The Notices app requires no authentication and is accessed by going to a specific URL (eg. notices.schoolname.wa.edu.au).

Notices does not have full support for images and some resources (hence they do not show as available options under the 'Insert' drop down). While in most cases, they will work with no issues they may result in slowness and/or Notices not to load. If these are required Portal pages may be better suited.

The Notices permissions are as follows:

• Ntc: Add: Allows notices to the notice page, edit own notes
• Ntc: Edit all: Allows the Editing and Deleting of Notices
• Ntc: Read: Read notices on the notice page

Creating (adding) and editing notices

Editing a notice does not change the created date. To set a notice to display first when using 'Sort by date' option, a new note will need to be created.

1. Go to the Home workspace > Notices
2. Click the Add notice button to create a new Notice or click on the edit icon for the notice you would like to edit
3. Enter a Title, if applicable select a Label
4. Select the day repetition and date-range.
5. Select audience:
   • Visible in SEQTA Learn and SEQTA Engage: Visible to staff (SEQTA Teach), guardians (SEQTA Engage and students (SEQTA Learn)
   • Staff only: Visible to staff (SEQTA Teach)
6. Click Save

Deleting notices

1. Go to the Home workspace > Notices
2. Click the Bin icon on the notice, then click Delete
   
3. Click Save

Creating and managing notice labels

1. Go to the Home workspace > Notices
2. Select Configure labels. Alternately, click the Configure... button when creating or editing a notice. 
3. Create a new label by typing in a label name, or select an existing label to edit.
4. Select a colour or leave with the random colour the system assigns
5. Click OK to keep the changes

Displaying notices by campus or sub-school

This option is only available when using the notices app. Information on setting this up is available in the following article:

• Enabling and configuring the Notices app

Why is Notices slow or does not load at all

Pasting a large image and other resources directly into a Notices is by far the most common cause. Some other factors are number of images/resources, image type and size.

The editor in notices does not have full support for images and resources (hence they do not show as available options under the 'Insert' drop down). While they will work with no issues in most cases they may sometimes result in slowness and/or Notices not to load.

Where this type of functionally is required it's recommended Portal pages with SEQTA Creator be used as it is purpose built. Notices was built for text and basic formatting for displaying on notices boards.