Introduction
When you add something new to your course or wish to draw students attention to something you add an announcement. Announcements are displayed on the course screen as you enter the course and also on the Communications screen.

How Announcements Work
There are 3 options for viewing announcements, past, present or all.  The present setting is the default.

v     Past – displays announcements dated before today

v      Present – displays announcements whose dates include today

v      All – displays all present and future announcements.

Directions
To add a new announcement:

• Click the edit button on the Course Announcements heading bar.
• Click Add Announcement.at the top of the Announcement Editor screen.
• Type your message in the text box.
• To add graphics to your message click the Insert Image icon in the tool bar.
• To have the announcement display immediately, leave all the date fields as they are. The default dates are for one week. You can adjust both the start and end date of the announcement.
• To include a link to a place within the course click the Insert Content Link icon on the tool bar. Click the Map tab. In the map that appears, click the button next to the part of the course that you want the link to go to. Click Save.
• Click Save on the Announcement Editor screen.

Cleaning up from a previous course
If you copy your course to use it again, all the old announcements will be in the course. They will be visible, either when you use the present setting or the past setting.

• You can delete the ones you don’t want using the Announcement Editor.
• You can “hide” an announcement for later use by adjusting the availability date into the future.  Another way to hide an announcement is to change the User Option to just yourself.  Then the announcement will display with a person icon in front of it  to show that it is only available to you. Just remember to make it available to everyone when the time comes

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