How do I add an announcement in a course?
You can create an announcement to share important information with all users within your course and with users in sections of a course. In your notification preferences, you can choose to receive notifications for announcements created by you as well as replies to announcements you've created. Notes: Your course must be published for students to receive announcement notifications. If you import an announcement from another course, new announcement notifications will not be sent to course users. If an announcement is created before the course start date and the students can only participate in the course between these dates setting is enabled, students will not receive announcement notifications. |
Open Announcements
Create Announcement
Add a title for your announcement in the Topic Title field [1].
To add announcement content, use the Rich Content Editor [2]. The Rich Content Editor includes a word count display below the bottom right corner of the text box.
If you want to create a section-specific announcement that is not graded, click the Post to drop-down menu [3]. You can select one or multiple sections.
Note: When a document is uploaded to the Rich Content Editor from a quiz, the file is saved to the Uploaded Media folder in Course Files and defaults to hidden status. Students can view the file when the quiz is made available to them. Learn more about file visibility. |
To add an attachment to your discussion, click the Choose File button [4].
Announcement options
In the Options section, you can select various options for your announcement. You can delay the posting of your announcement [1], which allows you to schedule the announcement for a future date.
Additionally, you can allow users to comment on the announcement [2] and require students to reply to a post before seeing other replies [3].
You can also enable an announcement podcast feed [4] and allow students to like announcement replies [5].
Notes: By default, comments are not allowed in announcements unless the Allow users to comment checkbox is selected. The Allow users to comment option is persistent, meaning the option you select when creating or editing an announcement will carry over when you create a new announcement in the course. However, the Users must post before seeing replies option is not persistent. Comment options may not be available to you if announcement comments are disabled in your course. Check your Course Settings if you cannot view these checkboxes. Unless you are using the delay posting option in Announcements, once you click Save, your announcement will immediately be posted in your course. |
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