- Recommendations for Announcements and Emails
- Key benefits to using the Announcements tool over Email
- Creating an Announcement
- Editing an Announcement
- Copying an Announcement
- Deleting an Announcement
- Video Tutorials
The Announcement tool is essential for direct communication with students. It is used for general course news and information. Announcements should be used to convey significant changes in specific weeks of the course, important messages, and major changes to course components, as well to interact with students, by sending a brief overview of past weeks and general feedback.
D2L Brightspace is setup to send emails to students at their cmail addresses when an announcement is posted from a course. However, students are also able to change their notification preferences and disable the email notification if desired.
WARNING: Course Announcements are not emailed out to students before the course start date, nor after the course end date. However, instructors can adjust the default start and end dates for their Brightspace courses in the Course Offering information page to allow for announcements outside of the set dates. ***All correspondence after the last day of classes should be made by Classlist email function. If you wish to make announcements after the last day of classes, you will need to update your classes end-of-date setting.*** |
Creating an Announcement |
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Your published announcement will appear on your course homepage (see example below). |
Editing an Announcement |
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Copying an Announcement |
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Deleting an Announcement |
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Are students notified about course announcements via email?
By default, students will receive email notifications when a course announcement is made. It is important to note that students have the ability unsubscribe to announcements, as well as subscribe to many other course-related notifications. |
Video Tutorials |
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