## Setting Message of the Day options

On this page:

- Setting Message of the Day options in your My Workspace
- Setting MOTD (Message of the Day) options as a site administrator

Note: To complete the procedures in this document, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. To view a list of permissions associated with a given role, see Permissions, roles, and tools. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and Roles: Overview.

#### Setting Message of the Day options in your My Workspace

In the Home tool of your My Workspace, you will see announcements from all the sites to which you belong. Setting your Message of the Day options controls how many announcements appear in this space.

To set Message of the Day options for your My Workspace, follow these steps:

1. In My Workspace, click `Home`.
2. Under "Message of the Day", click `Options`.
3. You can choose to show only the subject of the recent announcements from the sites to which you belong (`Show announcement subject`) or show the entire text of the announcements (`Show announcement body`). Additional options for displaying announcements include how many lines to display, how many days in the past to display announcements from, and the number of announcements. Enter or choose your desired options in the boxes provided, and then click `Update`.

#### Setting MOTD options as a site administrator

To set MOTD options for a site as a site administrator, follow these steps:

Note: To use this tool, you must have administrator rights.

1. In My Workspace, click `MOTD`.
2. At the top of the screen, click `Options`.
3. Choose your desired options for how you want announcements to display, and then click `Update`.