Announcements are used to communicate with your students in a quick and efficient way. All announcements for your course can be accessed by clicking the Announcements link on your course menu.

You and your students can subscribe to announcements via RSS by clicking the RSS feed button. This is helpful if you want to keep up with course announcements via a feed reader such as Feedly. You can find more information on the RSS feature of announcements in the Canvas Guides.

Announcement RSS feed button

Creating an Announcement

Create a new announcement by clicking New Announcement button on the homepage, or click Announcements on the course menu and click the Add Announcement button.

Add Announcement button

Add Announcement button on
the Announcements Page

New Announcement button

New Announcement button on
the Course Homepage

Enter a title in the Topic Title field and compose your message in the rich content editor below. You also have the option to attach any supporting documents that are applicable to the announcement by clicking the Choose File button underneath the rich content editor.

You can further customize your announcement settings in a few ways before posting. You can:

Schedule announcements to post at a specific date and time
Enable a podcast feed
- With a podcast feed enabled, you have the additional option of including student replies in the podcast feed
Allow liking

Announcement Options

Students are notified of course announcements according to their individual notification settings.