With an interactive news channel, allow your users to view news, exchange opinions, or even arrange meetings. Build a bulletin board using the news channel and allow your users to sell or buy pre-owned items conveniently or to share latest offers in the local community. With the following steps you can set up a news channel as a bulletin board.

1. In the Studio, navigate to News.
2. Click Add channel.
   
   
   The Create channel dialog opens.
3. Provide a suitable name for your blackboard.

4. Select a space in which you want the news channel to be displayed.

   The space of the news channel cannot be changed after it has been created.

5. Under Channel type, select Updates. This channel type fits best for short messages with images, as needed for a blackboard.
   
   
6. Click  Save.
   You have created a news channel. Once you publish the news channel, it will be available to your users.
7. Click on the gearwheel, if you want to make individual changes for your news channel.

How Users Will View the News Channel Bulletin Board

Your users can now to create posts and have meaningful interactions in the news channel. Update news channels are equally suitable for other forms of interactive channels.