KB307: Approving Newscaster Messages

Prerequisites: Newscaster Manager access rights to the News Caster web site.

    Related document: KB308: Newscaster Posting Policy

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  Overview

Newscaster messages are submitted and viewed through the My MCC

web portal at https://mymcc.middlesex.mass.edu.

After logging on to mymcc,  a link to “News Caster” will appear under the My Links area of the web page.

Any MCC employee may submit their own Newscaster message online at the Newscaster page on the My MCC web portal. The process and guidelines for submitting Newscaster messages are described in the Knowledgebase article KB308: Newscaster Posting Policy. Messages submitted through Newscaster are kept in a pending state until approved by a Newscaster Manager. Messages in a pending state are not viewable by the general college community. When a message is submitted by an employee, an email is automatically generated to Newscaster Managers that a message is awaiting approval. Once approved, the message is automatically posted for all Faculty and Staff to view.

Note: Messages submitted to Newscaster by Newscaster Managers will bypass the pending state and be published immediately.

 Approving a Newscaster Message

1. After logging on to mycc, click on the News Caster link under the  “My Links” section of the webpage .
    

2. Click on the “Admin” link at the top of the page to view any pending messages and begin the approval process.
    

Note: You will be required to log-in using your My MCC user name and password.
 

3. A list of pending messages awaiting approval will appear.
    
4. Click on the down-arrow next to the title of the pending message for a menu of options.
   
   
    

5. The drop-down menu offers the following options: View the message, Edit the message, Delete the message, or Approve/reject the message.
6. Select Approve/reject from the drop-down menu
   
    

The following options appear on the Approval screen:

• Select “Approved” to automatically post the message for all to view.
   
• Select “Rejected” to return the item to the creator and the message will not appear in the public view.  Use the comment section for any reasons why the item was rejected.
  Note: Rejected messages will stay in a pending state until deleted or resubmitted by the creator or a Newscaster Manager.
   
• Select “Pending” and the message will remain for all users with Manager Lists rights to reject or approve at a later date.

Note: Messages submitted to Newscaster by Newscaster Managers will bypass the pending state and be published immediately.