1. St Michael’s Primary School Berwick Creating a Daily Bulletin Board using SINA tools

2. 1.Log on to the ‘Myinternet’ Page using the Administrator Account 2.Move cursor over ‘My Tools’ 3.Click ‘Create Property’ 4.Choose ‘Forum’ 5.Scroll down and click ‘Next’

3. 6.On the Title & Description Page, fill in the title. E.g.. Term 4 Week 5 7.Fill in the Description E.g. Next Week 8.Choose ‘Teaching group Only’ 9.Choose ‘School’ (or which ever category you wish to store bulletin in) 10.Scroll down and click ‘Next’ Next Week

4. 11.On the Layout & Content Page click all of the checkboxes - ‘Topic Creation’ - ‘Comment’ - ‘Users delete own entries’ 12.Scroll down and click ‘Next’

5. 13.On the View & Add Page click ‘Enter Forum’ to begin setting up dates 14.On the Daily Bulletin Forum Page type Friday’s date* in the ‘Topic Title’ box 15.Click ‘Submit a Topic’ 16.Click ‘Back to forum list’ or ‘Back’ Button from the browser toolbar. * It is important to type the last day of the week first as other dates will appear on top of first entry.

6. 17.When you have repeated steps 15 & 16 for each day in that week, you will see all the days listed under the ‘Topics’ heading 18.Move mouse over ‘Admin Tools’ and click on ‘Allow/Fix Properties’ 19.Click on ‘School’ from the ‘Choose a Categories to Browse’ List

7. 20.Click the forum you would like to add to the teachers desktop. E.g. Daily Bulletin Term 4 Week 5 21.Select ‘Teaching group’ from ‘Allow this Property to Accessed by:’ 22.Change ‘Fix this Property:’ to the required position E.g. This Week – Top Next Week – Top left Last Week – Top left 23.Click ‘Submit’

8. 24.Forum will now appear on the teaching ‘Myinternet’ Page 25.To edit the description for each week E.g. Change This Week to Last Week Click on ‘Edit’ which is found in the top right corner of the forum box 26.In the ‘Description’ box change the relevant information. 27.Scroll down and click ‘Next’

9. 28.When the ‘Layout & Content Page appears remember to select the ‘Users delete own messages’ checkbox 29.Scroll down and click ‘Next’ 30.You will now be returned to your ‘Myinternet’ page and be able to view the relevant updates.