How To Post Your Graduation Announcement on Patch

Nanuet High School holds its graduation June 21. Clarkstown South seniors graduate June 23 and Clarkstown North’s ceremony is on the 24th. Nyack High School, Pearl River High School and Tappan Zee High School graduations are the 25th and Ramapo High School’s ceremony is on the 28th--and Patch wants to wish all of the high school graduates well as they venture out into the world.

Give your grad a shout out or share your graduation photos by posting an announcement for free on our Patch Bulletin Board. Simply login to our Contributeville Patch page and post it!

Here’s how to get started:

• Please go to http://contribute.patch.com and login to the site with your Patch account. If you need a new account, to reset a password, or you’re receiving an error message, file a ticket at http://support.patch.com. Make sure to fill out the correct form so you get what you need!
• Note: New users must create accounts by filling out a new user request form at http://support.patch.com. Why? Because only verified users will be posting content on Patch. So give us some information — your email address, why you want to post, choose “create an account” from the drop-down menu, and our Support Team will get back to you.
• After you’ve logged in, you will be brought to a page called My Contributions. You will see all of the content you have posted to Patch on this page and the following page. From there, you can edit or delete a previous post, or start a new one by clicking the “+ Create Article” button. If you have saved a post, it will be at the top under My Working Queue.

When creating a post, you will need to follow these steps:

• Your community is already assigned for you in top right corner of the page. If it is not, you will need to start typing the name of your community and it will appear. Click it when it appears to “assign it.”
• Your category is Bulletin Board.
• Enter your headline, description, article text and add a photo. Please don’t use all capital letters, it’s like shouting at your readers. Also remember, you don’t want to be an unfriendly user — publish once a day, please!
• To publish, click the large “P” at the bottom of the article, and then the green arrow at the bottom right. If your arrow button is orange, you must look back at the form and see if you are missing any of the required fields. A red-text error message will tell you what is missing.

If you realize after posting that you’ve made an error in your article, you can always edit it. If you are on your local Patch and are looking at one of your stories, click the small “P” icon next to the date. You will be brought back to Contribute.Patch.com to make your edits or deletions. You do not have access to edit anyone else’s stories, just your own.

If you have any technical problems, please submit a support ticket at: http://support.patch.com.