How to customize the spotlight and share updates or announcements with learners?

How to customize the spotlight and share updates or announcements with learners?

The spotlight feature available on your Knorish site is a great way to share important updates, announcements, or news about new courses through a student's dashboard.  This ensures that users are kept informed of all the important communication that they may need to know. Spotlight shows up as a message whenever a student logins to your Knorish site. A spotlight can be used for:

  • Announcements / notifications
  • Call-to-action - Redirecting to another page such as contact us, course page for sales, etc.

This feature can be run singularly or in combination with multiple spotlight message sliders with a choice of CTA buttons and customized messages.


Here's how you customize the spotlight messages: 

To create a spotlight message and display it on the user dashboard, please follow the below steps:


  • Log in to your account
  • Access the Dashboard
  • Scroll to Site Settings in Website Builder
  • The first default spotlight message is already listed
  • Click on the edit icon to make edits
    • Title: Heading of the message
    • Description: A free-running text that elaborates on the key message
    • Button Text: is what you want to use as Call To Action (CTA) 
    • URL: the page on your website you want to set CTA to take the visitor to
    • Thumbnail image: To customize the image per your liking
    • Image Size: 570 x 321 px
    • Image Aspect Ratio: 190: 107
  • Click on 'Publish this spotlight' and 'Save' once done/edited

Important Considerations

  • To create a new spotlight, click on the 'Create Spotlight' button, and you can add multiple spotlight messages. These spotlight messages are displayed as sliders on the user's dashboard.
  • The character limit for each field in the Spotlight section is as follows: 
    • Title - 100 characters including whitespaces
    • Description - 500 characters including whitespaces
    • Button Text - 100 characters including whitespaces
    • Button URL - 300 character




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