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 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).
Select Sections
Canvas will send your announcement to all sections within your course by default. If you want to select specific sections for your announcement, click the Post to drop-down menu and select sections from the list.
If your course does not have sections, Canvas will still show the All Sections option, and all course users can view the annoucement.
Teachers and TA’s are notified of all new course Announcements, unless they are Section restricted.
Select Options
In the Options
July Updates - Added a new Feature
tipsection, there are various options you can select for your announcement.
To allow other users to reply to the announcement, click the Allow Participants to Comment checkbox (1).
To require students to reply to a post before seeing other replies, click the Participants must respond to the topic before viewing other replies checkbox (2).
To enable an announcement podcast feed, click the Enable podcast feed checkbox (3).
To allow users to like announcement replies, click the Allow liking checkbox (4).
By default, replies are not allowed in announcements unless the Allow Participants to Comment checkbox is selected.
The Allow Participants 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 Participants must respond to the topic before viewing other 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.
Set Display Dates
By default, the announcement will display immediately after you publish it, and it displays for the duration of the course unless you delete it. However, you can set display dates for the announcement. To specify when the announcement should display, set a date and time in the Available from area (1). To specify when the announcement should stop displaying, set a date and time in the Until area (2).
To delay the posting of your announcement, schedule the announcement for a future date.
Publish Announcement
Click the Publish button to finally publish your course announcement.
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Unless the announcement not available yet, once you click the Publish button, your announcement is immediately be posted in your course. |
View Announcement
To view your announcements, go to the Announcement Index page.
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