Have you ever wanted to promote your club, group, or organization's event or announcement on the front page of myUMBC? Well, here is a quick guide on what you need to know. 

The promotion feature allows you to share content from your myUMBC group to all myUMBC users on the front page, reaching a much wider audience than if it were just posted to a group's page. This is a free feature for departments and official student organizations to use that operates on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Before you are able to promote content to the front page of myUMBC, there are a few requirements that must be met. 

• The post or content you wish to promote must be published in an official and public myUMBC group run by a UMBC department or student organization

• To have the option to promote content, you must be an admin of the group from which the content originates. This does not mean you have to be the creator of the post. 

• There must be an approved thumbnail image to go along with the post

• The content should be appropriate for all UMBC audiences

• Content can be promoted by a group once every 3 days, and only 10 promotions can be scheduled in advance

If these requirements are met, you should have no trouble promoting your content.  

To start, you will need to create a post as normal on myUMBC, including your text, thumbnails, alt-text, and any relevant tags. After you hit publish on your post, you may have to refresh the page or navigate to the main page of your group to find the post. 

Here you should see a box on the right side with the posts analytics as well as buttons to "Edit", "Copy", "Mark Important", and "Pin". If you are an admin for this group and it qualifies as a department or official student organization, then you should see a purple button labeled "Promote".