Instructor Guide: How to Use Announcements in Canvas
Announcements in Canvas allow you to share important information with all users in your course, including those in specific sections. You can also customize your notification preferences for announcements.
Important Notes:
- Your course must be published so that students can receive announcement notifications.
- Importing an announcement from another Canvas course won't trigger new announcement notifications.
- If an announcement is made before the course start date with limited course participation dates, students won't receive notifications.
- Notifications aren't sent for announcements created before the course is published.
- In the Canvas Student mobile app, users can't view announcements on the homepage but can access them in the course's Announcements navigation.
Essential Guides on creating and managing announcements in Canvas:
Penn Canvas has implemented the new Announcement Redesign in all course sites. Most functions are still the same as the guides listed above. However, the UI is updated to accommodate intuitive user needs. Please visit the following tutorials if you'd like to learn more about new features.
Announcements Redesign
Please visit the following website for a comprehensive list of tutorials about the Canvas Announcements tool.