1. Start with the navigation bar and click on 'Manage' -> 'Manage Challenges'

2. You are redirected to Challenge management page where you can see all Challenges you are managing

3. From the 'Challenge Management' page, choose the challenge for which you would like to create your announcement, click on 'Manage' and select 'Announcements' option

Note: Challenge announcements can only be created for challenges that already have been created. If you have not yet created your challenge, click the 'Create Challenge' button, and proceed through that process until your challenge has been created. Then return to this page, and click 'Announcements'

4. By default, you will be viewing the complete list of announcements that you have already sent for this particular challenge.

To create a new announcement, click 'Create New Announcement'

5. From the 'Create Announcement' page, you are able to enter the parameters and content of your announcement.

i - First you can decide whether you would like your announcement to be an email, a push notification, or an inbox message directly through Prepr

ii - Title and body content of your message

iii - You may choose whether or not to schedule your announcement. If you choose 'Start Sending Immediately' then the announcement will be sent as soon as you select the 'Create Announcement' button. Otherwise, you may select 'Custom Date' and use the 2 form fields below to choose the exact date and time that you would like your announcement to be sent.

iv - Lastly, you may choose who will receive the challenge, 'Participants' that have already submitted a project, 'Followers' that have clicked the 'Follow' button on the page for your challenge, or both of those groups if you choose to select both tick boxes.

6. Once you have finished filling out the form and your announcement is complete, you are able to 'Cancel' the announcement, which will delete your progress and you will leave the 'Create Announcement' page. 'Save Draft' which allows you to save your progress on the announcement that you are creating and come back to it later. Or lastly, 'Create Announcement' which will either send the announcement immediately, or save the announcement to be sent on the scheduled date and time if you chose to schedule it instead.

7. Drafted, and scheduled announcements that are pending being sent can be viewed from your 'Announcements' page by clicking on either the 'Draft' or 'Scheduled' tab.

Both Draft and Scheduled announcements are editable. If you would like to edit or delete them, click on either the 'Draft' or 'Scheduled' tabs.

8. Select the desired announcement and click on it.

9. From here, you are able to edit the announcement in the same way as you created it. You are able to cancel your changes with the 'Cancel' button, delete the announcement with the 'Delete Announcement' button, save it as a draft with the 'Save Draft' button, or publish the announcement with 'Publish announcement' which will send it to the recipients at the chosen time.

Note: If an announcement goes out on a particular day, and new users join the challenge after day, the new participants do not receive the announcement. And you may choose to send out a second announcement.