Creating Announcements

Canvas Tutorials Creating Announcements

Instructor Course Management Module

How Can I use Announcements?

Rich Content Editor Changes Coming Soon

Starting with the January 18, 2020 Canvas release Links to an external site. the new rich content editor will be available as course level feature option. Instructors can choose to turn on the new editor. Please note this change will affect student view as well.

Starting on May 15, 2020 ALL courses will have the new rich content editor enabled!

All of the external tool options (Studio, YouTube, Films on Demand etc) will be in a different location in the new editor toolbar. See Rich Content Editor Update (Coming Soon).

Announcements allow you to communicate with your students about course activities and post interesting course-related topics. As soon as you have created an announcement, Canvas takes care of notifying students according to their preferred notification preferences, through SMS or email. If desired, instructors can allow comments on announcements. This option can be turned on in the course settings. View the tabbed menu below.

Video Tutorial

View the video tutorial.

519 - Announcements Overview Links to an external site. from Canvas LMS Links to an external site. on Vimeo Links to an external site..

Important Notes

The March 10, 2018 release notes Links to an external site. includes improvements to the announcement screen. Download the updated Announcement Guide Download Announcement Guide

. The video tutorial will display the old interface but still functions similarly.

In May 1, 2019 Design Tools update Links to an external site. you can now adjust the delay date for all announcements from one page using the new Announcement Delay Date Modifier. You can also bulk edit announcements as well.

Canvas Guides

Note: These guides are maintained by the Canvas Documentation Team and are available on the Canvas Community site Links to an external site.. Some of the information in these guides may not apply to the Lake Land College instance of Canvas. If you have a question about a feature mentioned in these guides, please review Getting Help page for details on who to contact at Lake Land College.