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.
2. Click the Canvas icon in the top-right corner.
3. Click Dashboard in the Global Navigation Menu.
4. Click a course card to access that course.
1. Click Announcements in the Course Navigation Menu.
2. Click the Add Announcement button.
3. Enter a title in the Topic Title field [1], and add content in the Rich Content Editor [2].
The Rich Content Editor includes a word count display below the bottom right corner of the text box.
4. By default, Canvas will send your announcement to all sections within your course. To select specific sections for your announcement, click the Post to drop-down menu and select sections from the list provided.
If your course does not have sections, Canvas will still show the All Sections option, and all course users can view the announcement.
5. To add an attachment to your discussion, click the Choose File button.
6. In the Options section, you can select various options for your announcement.
6.1. You can delay the posting of your announcement, which allows you to schedule the announcement for a future date.
6.2. You can allow users to comment on the announcement [2] and require students to reply to a post before seeing other replies [3].
6.3. You can enable an announcement podcast feed.
6.4. You can allow students to like announcement replies.
7. Click Save.
8. View the announcement in the Announcements page.
If you will be using announcements as your main form of communication, you will want to have your students check their Canvas notifications to make sure that they receive an email when a new announcement is posted.
