Moodle 101

Creating a Course Announcement

All Moodle courses are pre-loaded with special forum at the top of the course called Course Announcements. This forum is an efficient communication tool that can be used by teachers to communicate information. Students are not able to start discussion or reply to posts in a Course Announcements forum. Any posts created in this activity will be sent to the Nazareth University email address of every user enrolled in the course. This post will also be available in the forum history for future reference.

The Course Announcements forum is an easy and effective way to send messages to all students in the course. If you are looking to message a limited number of students, you will want to use Quickmail.

Creating a Post

Step 1: Click Course Announcements to access the activity.

Step 2: To create a new post, click Add a new topic.

Step 3:

a. Enter a subject

b. Enter information in the message field. You can add media, pictures, and hyperlinks using the text editor.

c. Click Post to forum.

Note: clicking Advanced will allow you to attach a file.

Once the post is created, you will have 15 minutes to edit the message before it is sent to students. To edit the message, click the subject and then repeat step 3 as necessary!