Brand Standards: MyUSU

Portal Announcements & Ads

MyUSU provides a variety of options for admins and stakeholders to communicate with users through announcements, such as alerts and notices, to portal ads.

Announcements

Portal Announcements are university level, informative, pertinent messages related to a required or heavily encouraged action and can be sent to targeted audiences. These will appear in the announcements feature on MyUSU. There are three types of announcements:

Notices: Notice target users with relevant announcements.

  • Technical Transitions or Changes
  • General Information
    • Health and Wellness
    • Student Services & Resources

Alerts: Alerts target users with more urgent information and are pinned to the top of the Activity Feed.

  • Important Deadlines
  • Outages
  • School Closures
  • Safety Concerns
    • Weather (e.g., snow days)
    • Disease Outbreak
* Pop-up notifications for Notices and Alerts may be requested if the announcement’s content is related to a required action or urgent matter. The MyUSU Coordinator must approve these requests.

Emergency: Emergency Announcements target users with urgent emergency information and are pinned to the top of the Activity Feed, above any existing Alerts.

  • Weather (e.g., tornado, earthquake response, fire, etc.)
  • Active Shooter
  • Gas Leak

Portal Ads

Portal Ads are all other institutional promotional messages. These ads will be posted in MyUSU groups including: Aggie Community, USU Logan, USU Online, and USU Statewide Campus groups based on the ad audience and message. The MyUSU Coordinator will determine if ads fall within the scope of institutional messaging. 

Portal Ad requests may be denied based on content calendar availability. To ensure a diverse range of content from various university departments and organizations, ads from the same department may be limited.

Requirements

Announcements and ads both have the option for a message (copy/caption) and a graphic or image.

There are two size options for graphics and images. Please determine the size that would be most appropriate to your message by determining the amount of text or context of the ad.

more text option - 1024px x 768px
Registration Portal Ad Example
less text example - 1024px x 550px/brand/standards/myusu/images/image2.png
USU Ready Portal Ad Example

Requests

To request a portal announcement or ad, please fill out this online form: aggie.link/myusu-comm.

Request should include:

  • The message itself
  • URL for more information to be linked in message
  • Graphic or Image*

*Graphics and images can’t be linked. Please avoid using words like “here” and designed buttons on graphics.

Copy and Content Guidelines

As a communicator on behalf of USU, we recommend reviewing the Writing Style Guide for guidance on developing USU communications. This tool can also be used to reference frequently asked questions (such as advisor/adviser). 

  • Keep in mind who your audience and who the intended reader is.
  • Avoid using jargon, acronyms, and profanities.
  • Although most USU communications follow the most recent Associated Press Stylebook, some standards are tailored to USU's communication needs and preferences, and a few instances depart from AP style.
  • For capitalization and/or usage questions not addressed in the AP guide, refer to Webster's New World College Dictionary or Webster's New World Online.