Create Announcements

Overview: Post messages to students in Announcements. Students will see the announcements as soon as they enter the course site. You can also to choose to send the announcement as an email.

When you first enter your course site you will be in the Announcements section, or, if you are already in another area of the course, click on Announcements in the course menu.

Action: Create a new announcement for your students, and send it to them as email as well.

1. In the upper right corner of the page, make sure Edit Mode is ON, or click to turn it ON:

2. Click the blue Create Announcement button:

3. Enter the subject (required) and your message.

4. Under Web Announcement Options:

a. Select dates if you wish to restrict how long the announcement stays visible to students. Select Not Date Restricted (recommended) if you prefer for the announcement to appear indefinitely:

b. Check “Send a copy of this announcement immediately” so that, besides being posted in the Announcements section, your announcement is also sent as an email to all students enrolled in the course:

5. Click Submit. You will see your posted announcement.

Next Steps: If you request a course copy into a future term’s course site, remember to “clean up” the newly copied course site by deleting or date restricting old announcements.