What are Announcements?
Announcements are a great way to promote updates on Glean's home page for your users to see, especially if many users are using Glean as their new tab page.
They can be targeted to a limited set of users for whatever duration you choose.
Create an Announcement
If you have permission to create Announcements for your team, navigate to Knowledge → Announcements and click the "New announcement" button in the upper right corner.
You will see the announcement composer to create your announcement.
Customize the banner area
Choose a background color, icon, or image.
Write your announcement
Give your announcement a title and use our WYSIWYG editor to easily compose your message.
Include images
You can include images to enhance your announcement. Please make sure that your image is less than 1MB in size. After placing your image, you can resize it by clicking it and then dragging the corner handle.
Include a video URL
We currently support Youtube, Vimeo, and Google Drive links.
Show or hide the announcement author
If you prefer to hide the author name, turn off the Show author toggle.
Choose your audience
By default, your announcement will be shown to everyone in your organization. If you want to display the announcement to a select group of users, choose their Department and Location.
Schedule when it should appear and disappear from your users' home pages
By default, your announcement will be featured on your users' home page for a month. You can change it by specifying the dates in Scheduling.
Preview the announcement
Click on the More button on the top right and select Preview announcement.
Publish the announcement
Select the Publish button, and your announcement will appear on your users' home pages!
How Announcements appear
If there are announcements visible to you, you'll see an Announcements section on the Glean home page (or new tab page). You can click on the announcement itself to read in more detail, or hide it if irrelevant.
For Admins:
Want to allow users to push announcements from Slack? Follow the steps here.