Announcements - Add an Announcement
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.
Notes:
- Your course must be published for students to receive announcement notifications. If you import an announcement from another Canvas course, new announcement notifications will not send to course users.
- If an announcement is created before the course start date and the Students can only participate in the course between these dates setting is enabled, students will not receive announcement notifications.
- Notifications are not sent for announcements created before the course has been published.
- Student app users cannot view announcements on the homepage. However, they can view announcements in the course's Announcements navigation.
- Notifications for Announcements set with a future date and time will be sent out based on the Available From date and time as well as the individual user's Notification Settings for Announcement Notifications.
For more information, click on this link to the Canvas Community help guide.
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