Email is always a good option as well. You could have Witango send an email to the email address of the logged in user. For the kind of instant notiification though you are talking about they would always have to have thier email up. if the pop-up notification is a deal breaker you could utilize a hidden from that onLoad checks the db if a new change or assignment gets posted since the last page was loaded this would pick up new changes on each page load. you could also supplment this by placing a meta refresh in the hidden from to run the same query every n period of time, this would catch those between page loads, and if a change was detected you would use jscript to pop a centered, sized and styled window to alert the user. for this you have several options you could use a plain ol' browser window pop up or you could even exp;oit the javascript alert and confirm actions. the Alert specifing that chages or new assignmets are availble and the confirm directing the user to an html pop up of the cahnge summary.
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