How to Create a Course Announcement

You can create an announcement to share important information with all users within your course and with users in sections of a course. In your notification preferences, you can choose to receive notifications for announcements created by you as well as replies to announcements you've created. Your course must be published for students to receive announcement notifications. If you import an announcement from another Canvas course, new announcement notifications will not send to course users.

Overview

You can create an announcement to share important information with all users within your course and with users in sections of a course 

Notes:

• Your course must be published for students to receive announcement notifications. If you import an announcement from another Canvas course, new announcement notifications will not send to course users.
• If an announcement is created before the course start date, students will not receive announcement notifications.

Open Announcements

In Course Navigation, click the Announcements link.

Add Announcement

Click the Add Announcement button.

Create Announcement

Type a title for the announcement in the topic title field [1] and add content in the Rich Content Editor [2].

Note: The Rich Content Editor includes a word count display below the bottom right corner of the text box.

Select Options

In the Options section, you can select various options for your announcement. You can delay the posting of your announcement [1], which allows you to schedule the announcement for a future date.

Additionally, you can allow users to comment on the announcement [2] and require students to reply to a post before seeing other replies [3].

You can also enable an announcement podcast feed [4] and allow students to like announcement replies [5].

Notes:

• By default, comments are not allowed in announcements unless the Allow users to comment checkbox is selected.
• The Allow users 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 Users must post before seeing the replies option is not persistent.

Publish Announcement

Click the Publish button.

Note: Unless you are using the delay posting option in Announcements, once you click Publish, your announcement will immediately be posted in your course.

View Announcement

View the announcement on the Announcements Index Page.

Questions? Need Help?

If you have questions or need some help, please let ITS know by submitting a Raven Solutions request.