When would I use Announcement?
You can use Announcement to:
Remind your students what they need to accomplish to stay on track.
Point students to internal and external resources that will help them achieve course Outcomes.
Leave a message for the entire class with video or audio comments.
Celebrate student success and important events that may be of interest to your students.
Share feeds related to the topic of the course to your students.
Automatically share blog posts written by your students on Wordpress, Blogger, etc. with custom RSS feeds.
How to add
Announcment in Canvas?Announcement in Canvas?
In order to let students receive announcement notifications, your course must be published first. If you import an announcement from other Canvas coure, new notification will not send to the course users.
Students will not receive announcement notifications, if an announcement is created before the course start date.
Add an Announcement
From your course home page, open Announcement.
In Course Navigation, click the blue Add Announcement button.
Then, you can type a title in the Topic Title field (1), and add content in the Rich Content Editor (2). You can also attach a file by clicking🧷Attach(3).
View your attachment
Hover your mouse to the uploaded file, you can click on the file name link (1) to download it, or delete the attached file by clicking the ✖️ icon (2).
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