Greetings. It would be very helpful to have a place that can be a repository of static information, unlike The Feed where things are "sliding down" all the time. Populi is the central hub for everything on our campus, and this is a vital component missing in that. We have links/info that students need access to all the time. Thanks for your consideration of this.
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Welton Wriston As the Director of Student Life, I fully support this request. Students spend as little time as possible looking for information in The Feed. This change would reduce the phone calls or emails from our students. Thanks.
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Caleb Peacock This is a great idea. We have several links and resources for our students regarding their financial payments that would be very helpful to have in one static place on the Home Dashboard page without the issue of "sliding down". I would love to see this. Thanks!
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Evan Donovan If you edit a post on the Feed, and select Pin = Yes, then it should stay at the top.
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Chris Nelson What happens in the case a lot of people select Pin = Yes? Would this not still create a full list at the top, that students would need to scroll through?
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Robb Blackaby I am not sure I am following, Chris, but for the info we're needing to be static, I would like to eliminate the scrolling to find it.
Hi Evan- It should, but it doesn’t. I have a closed support ticket that addressed this, and I was told to bring my concern to feature requests.Thanks -
Evan Donovan If Pin doesn't pin items on the Feed, that sounds like a bug to me?
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Robin Sluder I agree. This is a much needed resource for our students at PTS. Our website served this purpose for financial aid in the past, but students could best be served by data availability in Populi. The Financial Aid Office would greatly appreciate a repository for posting important data for students to reference. This is truly needed. Thank you.
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Chris Nelson Robb mentions an area for static information, so items do not have to be scrolled. And Evan mentioned using Pins as that would cause the post to stay at the top. I am suggesting if all use Pin to put things at the top of the posts, this would still cause students to have to scroll. It would be beneficial if we had the option to create a separate web page for each area (IT, Hospitality etc) to post static information as it pertains to their area. Not sure if that makes sense or not.
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Evan Donovan Chris Nelson: Could you potentially use Groups to share resources in this way?
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Robb Blackaby I'm tracking, Chris. indeed, too much scrolling causes things to be lost or overlooked.
Thanks, Evan, for the idea. Something to explore.
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Adam Sentz This is certainly worth consideration. As some have pointed out, Pinned news could be utilized. The main problem, and why that doesn't work for some people, is that, since there's no limit on the number of items you can pin, often far more items get pinned than the one or two we anticipated when designing that feature. If you wanted to attempt going that route I'd recommend having one Important Info pinned post that you maintain with the desired info, and then limiting additional pinned items to one or possibly zero.
For sub-groups within the school using Groups may also be appropriate.
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Evan Donovan Good suggestions, Adam.
Also, One thing that we do at our school also is to update the dates on pinned Feed posts so that if we want one to show up at the top that was getting further down, it will go back to the top.
For example, we have a post that we update halfway through each term that indicates what the courses will be in the upcoming term. We just rewrite the parts of the post that change per term, update the date, and keep it as Pinned, and then it goes back up to the top of the Feed.
If you do have an "Important Info" post, you could potentially have it link to documents that were in the Files area of Populi, if you wanted to have more lengthy static information that was not accessible via your school's website.
We also have static information that shows up in a New Student Orientation course for our students, but, of course, that wouldn't fit all use cases, since that's just something that is for students' first term. -
Robb Blackaby These are all great suggestions. I have maintained the information in the post that prompted this feature request, and at this point, editing it and re-pinning, changing dates re: how long it's pinned, etc. have not bumped the post back up. I am considering some kind of use of the Files in some way for this too.
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