Create an Announcement

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How to Access Announcements

Announcements can be accessed from the following locations:

If the course homepage has the Announcements widget, clicking the Announcements title will bring the user to the tool. See https://cpibrock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BLEDOCU/pages/874708993 for more information on homepages.
Clicking Course Tools → Announcements
Clicking Course Tools → Course Admin and then navigating to Announcements. To learn more about navigating using Course Admin, see https://cpibrock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BLEDOCU/pages/867500136

Announcements can be accessed from many places

From the Announcements menu, click New Announcement

New Announcement button at the top left of the Announcements page

Enter a headline and content for the Announcements item.

Optional Settings for Availability, Attachments and Release Conditions. Learn more about Release Conditions here: https://cpibrock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BLEDOCU/pages/870514691

To hide the headline's date and time, clear the Always show start date check box. By default, an Announcements item start date and time appears below the headline when displayed in the Announcements widget.
In the Start Date and End Date fields, select the posting availability date. Announcements items publish immediately, unless otherwise specified.
To remove an Announcements item for a specific date, select the Remove Announcements item based on end date check box.
The announcement author and administrators can still see the Announcements item after its end date, but it does not appear in the Announcements widget.
In the Attachments section, file (i.e., PDFs, word docs, images etc.), audio and video can be attached for multimodal options for the delivery of an Announcement.
Additional Release Conditions: To include additional release conditions, click Attach Existing or Create and Attach. Use this feature to share announcements with specific course sections/seminars/groups. Release conditions can also release an announcement to students after a certain assessment is completed. For more information on Release Conditions see this article:

Note: Post-dated Announcements items do not display in the default Course Homepage Announcements widget even if users have permission to see future Announcements items. They can be found within the list of Announcements items on the Announcements page.