Managing your school's announcements can be a headache! At the request of Bryan Station High School's video production teacher, Somer Davis, the Office of Instructional Technology has developed a simple online tool to help with this task. The web delivery is quite plain, intended to be embedded within a school's own website. Users of the system create their own account, and enter/edit/report announcements through the Internet, with complete control of the system and its users assigned to one or two School Announcement Administrators. Some advantages...

• No more emails, no more little scraps of paper, no more stops in the hall!
• The designated School Announcement Administrator has full control over who can enter announcements, and who can report them. S/he can add/edit/delete any announcement at any time.
• Teachers/coaches/PTSA chairs/administrators can enter announcements from anywhere with Internet access, at any time. They only have access to the announcements they enter.
• Announcements are sorted by subjects that the School Announcement Administrator chooses, and otherwise delivered in the order they were entered.
• A simple link on your school's website displays all active announcements instantly, immediately after they have been entered by an approved announcement participant.

Contact Jeffrey L. Jones (jjones@fayette.k12.ky.us) if you would like to use this capability for your school. [Screenshots below...]

	Easy registration with email verification. Once registered, no one can enter announcements until s/he is approved by the School Announcement Administrator. S/he is notified automatically via email whenever someone registers.
Easy announcement entry screen, with helps and hints available through the links. Enter a date range for multiple announcement dates. Special instructions can be entered for messages to the person or students doing live announcements.
	The reporting screen is available only to designated reporters (controlled by the School Announcement Administrator). A reporter can enter any date (or "today" for the current day). S/he can select  to send announcements automatically by email to your school's teacher/staff distribution list.
Reports appear in a new browser window, in easy printable format.
	A report link is available for your school - clicking this link, or embedding the linked page into a frame, provides up-to-the-minute announcements for every visitor to your school's website.