Course Set Up: Reviewing Announcements

Allison McComb Updated by Allison McComb

Course Set Up: Reviewing Announcements

Your courses will have several announcements already preloaded. These system automation that runs approximately a week before the course starts should fill in these announcements for you automatically.

However, it is required that review these preloaded Announcements to ensure all placeholder text is filled in, dates and times align with the course schedule, and Zoom links are included as needed.

How to review Announcements:

1. From your navigation menu, click Announcements.

2. Click the title of the announcement you want to edit.

3. Click the three gray dots in the upper right hand corner of the announcement, and click Edit

The Course Announcements and Messages document indicates the recommended/required time that each announcement should be released to students. You may need to use the Delay Posting function for some of these.

If so, please follow these steps:

1. In the announcement's Edit window, look for the Options area near the bottom of the page.

2. Under Options, look to "Available from"

3. Click on the calendar icon next to the date field, and select the day and enter the time when you want the announcement to be released to students.

4. Click the Save button.

Important notes:

  • Canvas will not allow you to send multiple announcements to students at the same time. They must be set to release at least five minutes apart from one another.
  • Announcements set to go out on 9am of the Course start date will not be delivered. Please delay the "Welcome" announcement to 9:05am EST or after.
  • Any Gentle Nudge messages (link to page explaining this) should NOT be sent as an announcement but rather as a message from your Canvas inbox. 

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