The announcement tool enables you to create announcement items that help communicate course updates, changes and new information to your students quickly and effectively.
Creating an Announcement Item
- From the course homepage, click the drop-down arrow beside Announcement
- Click New Announcement
- Enter the name of your announcement item in the headline field.
- Under the content heading, enter the contents of your news item in the HTML Editor.
- Select start dates and end dates for your announcement.
- Add any attachments or release conditions.
- Click Publish or Save as Draft, which will allow you to publish the item at a later date.
- After your announcement (news) item has been created, you and edit it at any time.