Customize your College's News in your Homepage. Access to: Administration> Control Panel> Announcements; to set a College Announcement that will be shown to all users in that College.
Use the Gadgets provided by Accudemia to add to your Homepage screen shortcuts as My Appointments, My Pending Surveys. Also, keep update to the last World News using customizable News Gadgets as BCC NEW HEADLINES. Some of them can be edited by users.