News
News is a feature exclusive to linkrs. A linkr is the homebase for a network of classes and groups overseen by an institution, an association, an organization or a learning community such as a virtual exchange, mobility or experiential learning network.
An Administrator of a linkr can publish and share News with members to keep them in the loop as well as engage them with important or interesting stories. You can quickly create eye-catching posts about announcements, people news, status updates, events, and more that can include visuals and videos.
Only the members of your linkr will be able to read and comment on your News, and they will receive email alerts when a News item is added.
In this article, you will learn about:
How to create and publish News
To add a News item in your linkr, simply go the News tab and click at the button + Add News and fill the corresponding creation form:
A News item is required to have a Title and at least some content, and we’d strongly advise you to consider adding a Cover picture because it greatly increases how many people will click and read on your News item.
To further increase indexability and help organize and distribute your content you should consider adding a few Subjects to your News item.
Keep in mind that all your members will receive an email alert, once a day, to inform them that a News item has been posted. Since there is only one notification a day, to avoid any of your members to feel they’re being spammed, you can rest easy and publish several News items in the same day.
News items can either be Drafts or Published. As long as you don’t choose to publish your News item, it will remain as a draft and won’t be seen by anyone. In your list of News items, you can switch view from “Published” to “Drafts” at any time using the tabs at the top:
How to insert an image into a News
As we said above, we strongly encourage you to add a Cover picture to your News as it will greatly increase how many people will open it.
Now, if you wanted to insert images within your News, simply click on the image icon in the toolbar of the text editor:
This will prompt you to select an image on your device.
The editor supports images up to XMB in the .JPG, .JPEG, .GIF, and .PNG formats.
How to embed a Youtube video into a News item
To insert an online video into your News item, simply click on the video icon in the toolbar of the text editor:
You will then be asked to insert the URL of the video and to confirm. To get the sharing URL of that video in Youtube, click on the share button:
How to edit or delete a News item
From the list of News items, you can view, edit or delete by clicking on the three dots menu at the bottom of a card:
Please note that while there can be several Administrators of a linkr that can publish News items, Administrators can only edit News literary they personally published.