Announcements: Overview

What it does

The Announcements tool is used to inform site participants about current items of interest. Announcements can have multiple attachments, such as documents or URLs.

To see the Announcements from all the sites to which you belong, in the menubar of My Workspace, click Announcements.

Key concepts

Sorting: You can sort announcements by subject, sender, access, or date.

Posting: Announcements are posted to a course or project site. Site owners and instructors can choose to have an announcement automatically sent via email to all site participants by using the "low" or "high" notification setting. For more information on managing email, see Tools for managing site email.

Things to consider

• Announcements are a useful way to post a notice about an important change in deadlines, meeting times, or meeting locations.
  
  
• You can draft and save an announcement before you send it out to site participants. Your drafts will be shown with a "Draft" marker in your list of announcements.