What are Announcements?

Announcements allow instructors to communicate with students about course activities and post interesting course-related topics.

Announcements are designed to allow instructors to broadcast information out to all members of a course or to all members of sections within a course.

Students may be able to reply to announcements, but replies are not considered to be a conversation and do not appear in the Conversations Inbox

You can view all your course announcements in the Announcements Page. As an instructor, you can also create announcements and modify announcement settings.

Announcements are located on the left side of your screen in the Course Navigation

Open Announcements

In Course Navigation, click the Announcements link.

The Announcements page is designed with global settings at the top of the page [1], followed by the individual announcements [2].

Announcements toolbar include a drop-down menu to filter all or unread announcements[1] and a search field [2] for searching an announcement. You can also add a new announcement [3] and view external feeds for announcements [4]. External feeds include adding an external feed and subscribing to the Announcements RSS feed.

Announcements are listed in reverse chronological order with the newest appearing first and the older Announcements appearing towards the bottom.

Each announcement includes the name of the announcement [2], an unread indicator near unread announcements [1], the number of unread/total replies in the announcement [3], and an options icon to manage individual announcement settings [4].

Manage Announcements

To apply a bulk action, such as locking or deleting, click the checkbox next to the announcement [1]. To close all selected announcements to comments, click the Lock button. 

To delete all selected announcements, click the Delete button.

To view an announcement, click the name of the announcement.

You can also use the options icon to delete the announcement. If your course allows comments, you can also allow or disallow comments [2].

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