Canvas Announcements

Learning Intentions

Participants who complete this module will gain an understanding of how to use Canvas to connect with students and parents. 

 Success Criteria

Participants will know they are successful when they can:

• I can create and send an announcement in a Canvas course.

Creating Announcements

Task: Create an announcement for your students.  Send one announcement today and create a second announcement with a delayed send date.

Announcements are used to communicate with students about the logistics of your course. As soon as you have created an Announcement, Canvas takes care of notifying students according to their preferred Notification Preferences, through Facebook, Twitter, SMS (text message), or email. In Canvas, you have the option of feeding posts from your blog or other information sources directly into your Announcements page using RSS. RSS feeds can by filtered by keyword to prevent non-relevant content from entering the course. Students who use RSS readers can subscribe to course Announcements outside of Canvas.