Announcements
Announcements are an ideal tool for facilitating communication with students concerning time-sensitive material such as reminders about upcoming due dates, changes in the syllabus, and corrections or clarifications of material.
New, active course announcements appear the first time students enter your course. Students need to close the New Course Announcements window before they can view course content. After students close the window, it won’t appear again. If you post new announcements, the window appears again with only the new announcements. Within the course, students will also see a number indicating any unread messages next to the Announcements tab at the top of their course.
Active announcements also appear in the Today and Recent sections of the Activity Stream. Most announcements disappear from the Activity Stream when students view them within their courses. If you schedule an announcement, it also appears in the Activity Stream at the scheduled time.
Create an Announcement
- Click Announcements in the top navigation of your course
- Click the plus icon in the upper right of the Announcements page
- Type a title and message for the announcement - note that some items will not be visible in the email version of the announcement, including attachments, images or videos
- Select the Send an email copy to recipients check box if you want this announcement to be sent as an email
- If you click the checkbox to Schedule announcement, you can set a date and time for the announcement to be sent to your students. If you also selected to send an email copy, the email will be sent at that time
- Click Save to save your announcement as a draft or Post if you are ready for the announcement to be sent
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