Announcements allow instructors to communicate with students about course activities and post interesting course-related topics. Announcements are designed to allow instructors to broadcast information out to all members of a course or to all members of sections within a course.

Use Announcements to:

Remind your students what they need to accomplish to stay on track.
Point students to internal and external resources that will help them achieve course Outcomes.
Leave a message for the entire class with video or audio comments.
Celebrate student success and important events that may be of interest to your students.

How to Add Announcements

In Course Navigation, click Announcements.
Click +Announcement.
Add title and content of announcement.
Choose the options you want.
Click Save.

2 Cents icon The default setting is that users receive notifications about new announcements. However, if you are going to use announcements heavily, you may consider letting students know that they need to keep notifications on for your course.

2 Cents icon Add the latest number of announcements to the homepage regardless of what the homepage is. You can do this by selecting settings, course details, more options, and "show recent announcements on Course home page". Then identify how many announcements you want to appear on any course home page.

Need something more?

To learn more about announcements visit Why Use Announcements? in the Emergency Remote Teaching Course.

For details about course notifications see Canvas's How do I set Notification Preferences and Disable Notifications by Course on the Rice Teaching and Learning with Canvas blog.

If you need immediate assistance, please feel free to reach out to Learning Environments:

713-348-4357 | teaching@rice.edu | Remote Teaching Resources