The Announcements forum is a special forum for general news and announcements. This forum is automatically created in the new course and only an instructor can post in it. It will automatically be sent out as an email to your students, as well as being displayed in the forum itself.
(Note: Students cannot create posts or reply to posts in an announcement forum. Please create a separate discussion forum to allow your students to post on a forum.)
(Note: The notification will not get pushed out to students when the course is hidden. Make sure to check the course visibility before you post the announcements.)
Adding a post on a forum
By default, the Announcements forum is placed in the top of the central section of your course.
- You can make an announcement by clicking Add discussion topic.
- Write the Subject of the announcement and the announcement itself as shown below. Click on Advanced to review more options:
- If you have not checked "Send forum post notifications with no editing-time delay" under Announcement Settings, the announcement will be posted in 30 minutes. Afterwards, the announcement will be posted, and anyone subscribed to the forum will also receive an e-mail referring to it.
- Click Post to forum.
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