Announcement in Canvas

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Last updated: Oct 23, 2024
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Overview

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

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

  1. From your course home page, open Announcement.

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  2. In Course Navigation, click the blue Add Announcement button.

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  3. 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 section, 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).

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.

View Announcement

To view your announcements, go to the Announcement Index page.