Through the “Announcements” tool, the instructor can inform registered course users about all actions taking place within it. To add a new announcement, first select the “Add Announcement” link.

Adding a New Announcement

Next, enter the title of the announcement as well as its “body.” Also, select the users to whom you want this specific announcement to appear. Furthermore, define the start and end date for the announcement.

Adding an Announcement

The process is completed by selecting the “Submit” link. Once you have created a number of announcements, a series of actions related to them become available to the course instructor. Specifically:

• Edit an announcement
• Hide/Show an announcement
• Delete an announcement
• Pin as important / Unpin as important
• Move to top
• Batch editing

To edit an announcement, select the “Edit” link. Make any desired changes and click the “Submit” link.

Editing an Announcement

To hide or show an announcement, select the “Hide” or “Show” links, depending on the current status of the announcement.

Hiding/Showing an Announcement

If you wish to delete an announcement, select the announcement link and confirm the deletion.

Deleting an Announcement

To “pin” an announcement as important, select the corresponding gray control.

Pinning as Important

The announcement will automatically move to the top of the announcements list, and the color of the control will change to red. You can also move an announcement to the top of the announcements by selecting the “Move to top” link with the corresponding arrow.

Moving to Top

A new feature concerns the batch editing of announcements. Specifically, you can perform batch deletions of announcements, as well as show or hide announcements in bulk. To perform one of the aforementioned actions, you must first enable “batch editing” from the corresponding option as shown in the image below.

Enabling Batch Editing of Announcements

Then, define the type of batch action (delete, show/hide) to be performed, and then select the announcements you wish to batch edit. The process is completed by selecting the “Submit” link.

Batch Announcement Editing