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After your register to the MSA website and your account is activated by the moderator, you are ready to go. The following recommendations should prove very useful to enhance your experience with our website

1. Posting Tips and Tricks:
   To post content to the website, click on "Post" on the top banner navigation bar then choose the type of  content you want to create. Stories are usually used for news and announcements. Events are used for adding events to the event calendar. You can also create polls or forum topics. The following tips should make things easier
   • SELECT THE CATEGORIES ACCURATELY WHEN POSTING. If you are posting an announcement, select the type of announcement (event, housing, misc, etc). If you are posting news, select the type of news (local, national, or international), and so on. If you are posting a forum topic select the appropriate forum. If your post can be classified under more than one category, select all that apply.
     • THE AUDIENCE CATEGORY: defines the intended audience of your post. Public means all Internet surfers can access your post. Authenticated means only registered users (identified at least by their email address) can access your post. Trusted means for trusted users whose identity has been verified either by their email @uconn.edu or personally by the administrators. Committee here means those MSA members responsible for moderating the website comment.
     • If you want to post a forum topic, it might be more reliable to first navigate to the forum then click on "Post new forum topic", instead of click on "Post" link directly then choosing the right forum.
2. Checking Recent Posts
   The front page displays only highlighted articles, so if you want to track recent posts you'd better use the "Recent Posts" link. The "Forums" link is an even better way of tracking new posts to forums, because it shows which forums have recent posts unread by the user.
   • SUBSCRIBE TO INTERESTING CATEGORIES. Follow the "Subscriptions" link on the top banner navigation bar, and subscribe to interesting categories by simply clicking on the Subscribe link next to the category name. Please subscribe ALL announcement categories, because this is where important announcements will be posted
   • SUBSCRIBE TO INTERESTING POSTS. When you subscribe to a category, you receive notification when a new topic is posted immediately under this category. But unless you subscribe to a posted topic, you will receive no notifications of replies to that topic (even if you are subscribed to the forum containing the topic, i.e. subscription settings are not automatically propagated ).