Audience: Franklin University faculty accessing courses in Canvas.
Disclaimer: The results and functionality of the following article only apply to the audience listed above.
Disclaimer: The results and functionality of the following article only apply to the audience listed above.
Topics
- Announcements Overview
- How to Create Announcements
- How to Edit Announcements
- How to Delete Announcements
Announcements Overview
Canvas offers instructors the ability to release announcements to their students to inform them of any important changes. Announcements are designed to be extremely versatile so that you can share links, images, files, links to course objects, videos and you have tons of formatting options as well. There are many more features that we will go over below, so read on for more information.
For a more detailed article on this topic, you can view Canvas's article on Creating Announcements.
Canvas offers a few other articles on the topic:
How to Use the Announcements Index Page
View/Sort Announcement Replies
How to Delay Announcement Posting Date
Enable/Disable Replies to Announcements
How to Create Announcements
- Navigate to the home page of the course that requires an announcement.
- In the Course Navigation menu on the left-hand side of the screen, click on Announcements.
- You will now see the Announcements page, where you can then click + Announcement to create a new announcement.
- NOTE: Announcements will only appear for students in courses that are published.
- NOTE: Announcements will only appear for students in courses that are published.
- From here, you can now give your announcement a title, a body of text, add links/files/images (in the right-hand side menu), and choose which sections of the course should see the announcement.
- After filling your announcement with content, make sure you always click Save in the end.
How to Edit Announcements
- After creating an announcement, you can go into the Announcements menu within a course to edit any new or old announcements.
- Click on the title of the announcement you want to edit.
- Now you can click Edit and change the announcement as needed. Make sure to Save after making your changes!
How to Delete Announcements
- Navigate to the Announcements menu within your course.
- You can delete announcements in two ways.
- The first way is to select each announcement you want to delete by checking the checkbox to the left of an announcement. Then, you can click the trashcan icon outlined at the top.
- The second method is to click the 3-dot icon at the far right-hand side of an announcement and then choose Delete.
