Making Announcements

Using the News Forum in your course is the best way to make an announcement to the whole class. News forums are set up so that students are automatically subscribed (so posts are delivered to students’ email addresses). Students do not have the ability to reply to the announcements (which prevents them from messaging the whole class). There is a 30 minute delay for all forum posts.

To make an announcement through the News forum:

  1. Select the News forum
  2. Click “Add a new topic”
  3. Create a Subject and Message
  4. Click “Post to forum”

Please note: We strongly recommend using this method of communication as opposed to the messaging tool. The messaging tool does not send messages to users currently online nor does it provide any record of messages sent or to whom they were sent.