How do I edit pages in the Student Hub (News)? (Staff)

News (view Microsoft guidance for the News web part)

  • The News section is set to only be displayed if there are news articles available, so you may not realise it’s there when viewing the page. In edit mode you will see it on the screen.
  • Adding a news story
    • From any page in the site, select '+ New' at the top left of the screen (beneath the site name)
    • [Alternatively you can select '+ Add' at the top of the News area on your site]
    • Select News Post
    • Select a template, e.g. Blank, then click the 'Create post' button
    • Add the content to the news story, including text, images, links etc.
    • Unless you want comments on the news story, set Comments to Off at the bottom of the page
    • Click the Post and send button at the top right of the screen when you are finished
    • Unless you want to email the story, click on the X on the top right of the 'Send this news post as an email' pop-up
  • Editing how news stories are displayed
    • Click on the edit icon at the top left of the section
    • The News editing panel will display on the right of the screen
    • Use the options to set how news should be displayed:
      • News Source – usually this is set to ‘This site’ but can be changed to show news from other locations (not recommended)
      • Title – this allows you to choose whether to display a title in this section and what heading level it should be.
      • Layout – this allows you to change how the news stories are displayed
      • Filter - this area allows you to choose what news articles will be displayed if you don’t want to show all of them
      • Organize – this allows you to manually choose the order of news articles, rather than showing the most recent article first