Announcements allow instructors to send email messages and post an announcement in the Announcements forum. Announcements are the most effective way to communicate with all of your students with one communication method. Even if the announcement is relevant to a small number of your students (for example, a reminder to complete an assignment that some student have already submitted), announcements show that you are active in the course. If you want to send an email to a single student or a few students in the course, use the Quickmail block.
The Announcements forum is a special forum for general news and announcements. It is placed in Module 0 of all courses. Only instructors can post Announcement posts made are emailed to class members.
While you also have the option to use Quickmail to email students, Announcement posts have the advantage of being collected on a single page within the course. You and your students can review them any time you are logged into Moodle without having to search through your personal email inbox or Quickmail history.
Follow the steps below to post an announcement to all your students in the course section.
Step 1
On your course page, click the Announcements link. The Announcements page will open and any posts already made will be listed. If no topics or posts have been added, you’ll see a message “(No news has been posted yet.)”
Step 2
Click Add a new topic. The Your new discussion topic page opens.
Enter a Subject and a Message (both are required). You may choose to add an attachment.
Select the Send forum post notifications with no editing-time delay checkbox if you do not want the standard 30-minute delay before subscribers receive an email.
Select the Pinned checkbox if you want to highlight your Post to be at the top of your Announcements list even after more announcements are posted.
Step 3
Click Post to forum to post your message. A “success” message appears. Click Continue to return to the Announcements forum page.
Revised June 2020