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An announcement is a one-way message to everyone enrolled in a course: a cancelled lecture, a moved deadline, a reminder. The course’s Owner, Teachers and Assistants can post them. For a conversation students can reply to, start a discussion instead.

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Post one

1

Start a new announcement

In the sidebar, choose Announcements, then New.
2

Choose the course

Pick the Course it’s for.
3

Write it

Enter a Subject, such as “Week 2 quiz is open”. Add more details below it, if you need to.
The New announcement form with a course, the subject Week 2 quiz is open, and a short message

An announcement for Introduction to Psychology, ready to post.

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Post it

Choose Post announcement. The announcement opens, and your students can now read it.
The posted announcement page showing its subject, course, author and message

The posted announcement.

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Edit or delete it

Open the announcement and choose ⋮:
  • Edit changes the subject and message. Choose Save changes. The course can’t be changed.
  • Delete removes it from the course for good.
Only the person who posted an announcement can edit or delete it. No one else sees the ⋮.

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Past announcements

When a course ends, its announcements move to the Past tab on Announcements. They can’t be changed any more, but students can still read them.

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Troubleshooting

Only its author can edit an announcement. Ask them to make the change, or post a new one.
The list shows only published courses. A draft has no students yet, so publish it first. A course that has ended can’t take new announcements.

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Next

Start a discussion

Ask your students a question they can reply to.

Schedule a class

Put your class times on the calendar.