Mandatory Reads Overview

This guide will give an overview of the Mandatory reads on the new Intranet.

The mandatory reads section is a new area of the intranet. It is predominately used to inform Trust staff of important information; however it differs to the Alerts on the homepage in that you will see a notification next to the My Inbox icon when you have an unread mandatory read . The notification will persist until the mandatory read has been read.  

This functionality helps the intranet team keep a count of how many people have read a specific mandatory read. This may be used for scenarios such as changes in a Trust policy.  

Viewing an unread mandatory read 

To view and acknowledge that you have read an outstanding mandatory read, please follow the steps below: 

1. Click on the bell icon to navigate to the ‘Mandatory Reads’ page 
2. You will see a box with two tabs: Unread (x) and Read (x) (where x displays the number in each tab). By default, you will be on the Unread (x) tab.
   
   
3. Click on the blue title text to go into the mandatory read.
4. Once you have click into the mandatory read, the site will mark this as read. To check, click the back button or click the bell icon again to go back to the mandatory read section.
5. The mandatory read should now have disappeared from the Unread (x) tab and the count will have increased in the Read (x) tab.  

Viewing a read mandatory read 

To revisit an old mandatory read, please follow the steps below: 

1. Click on the bell icon to navigate to the ‘Mandatory Reads’ page
2. Click on the ‘Read (x)’ tab to see a list of previously read mandatory reads
   
   
3. You can navigate to an old mandatory read at any time by clicking into the title and viewing the content.