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Policies and Procedures | Announcement Request Form
Tips for Formatting Your Announcement on myCNU
The Process:
When an announcement request form is submitted to one of the trained announcers across campus, the subject line and the body of the message are copied and pasted into two separate fields in a web enabled form that is located in the administrative utility of myCNU. Delivery and expiration dates are set and targeted audiences are chosen, based on your request, from several drop down lists. The announcer then checks the Announcement Channel or Email checkbox, based on your request and the policies and procedures for this process. (You will find those policies and procedures on the following page: http://www.cnu.edu/announcements/policies.html)
Why does the announcement or email look different from what I submitted?
The fields of the administrative web form do not allow for any text formatting, such as bulleted lists, bold and/or italicized text, fonts other than Times Roman, colored fonts or fonts of varying sizes. Because of this feature, many messages that you request, will not have the appearance of your original document or entry to the Announcement Request Form.
What can I do to make my message more readable?
Here are a few suggestions that I hope will help you when you are composing a message to be delivered via the myCNU announcement channel or email:
* Bulleted Lists - use an asterisk to delineate items in a bulleted list.
* Numbered List - If you prefer your list to be a numbered list, manually add the number before each list item.
For example:
1. Item A
2. Item B
* Be aware that the myCNU administrative announcement web form does not use Tabs. If you have Tabs in your original document or entry, they will be lost when the information is pasted into the body field of the myCNU administrative web form. If you need to have the effect of Tabs, please use the space bar as spaces are preserved.
* Information Headers:
If you want to make an information header for sections of your announcement or email, try using ALL CAPS (use this option sparingly as according to email protocol, all caps is considered “yelling”) or place several asterisks before *** and *** after the information header and begin the content on the next line.
* URLs to websites:
To ensure that a URL in your announcement or email is active, cut and paste the URL directly into your message. (i.e.; http://universityrelations.cnu.edu) Many URLs that are linked to text (i.e.; highlight text in MS Word and choose “Create Link”) don’t come into the myCNU administrative web form as active.
To cut and paste an active URL into your message, follow these steps:
1. Go to the website that you want to copy the URL.
2. Highlight (select) the URL the same way you would if you were highlighting or selecting text in a Word document.
3. With the URL highlighted, choose “Copy” from the Edit menu in your browser.
4. Place your cursor in the “Body of Message” field of the Portal Announcement Request form where you want the URL to be placed.
5. Choose “Paste” from the Edit menu of your browser
I hope you will find this information helpful as compose your myCNU portal announcement requests. As always, if you have any further questions or concerns, please email me, Maggie White, at mwhite@cnu.edu
Policies and Procedures | Announcement Request Form |
