Brightspace – Announcements

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Overview

Course announcements appear on the homepage of your course. Instructors will see the small down-arrow next to “Announcements” and they can click there to:

Make a new announcement
Go to the Announcements tool (the management page where you can delete, edit, etc.)
Reorder announcements

Managing Migrated Announcements

All of your Blackboard Announcements will be copied into your Brightspace course. To edit them or add new announcements, go to Course Admin in the Course Navigation Bar, and click “Announcements.”

Click the drop-down menu to the right of the announcement on the list to:

Delete announcements
Make them not visible to students (use “Dismiss from widget” to hide them. You can restore them at any time.)
Edit any of their contents, including text, dates, restrictions, etc.

By checking the box next to an individual announcement(s) and choosing More Actions, you have other options, such as reordering.

If you have an initial “welcome” announcement, you can click the dropdown menu next to it and select “Edit.” Then uncheck the “Always Show start date” checkbox. This will allow you to re-use this announcement each semester without confusing students by displaying an old date.

Hide an Announcement

In the Announcement area in the course home page, click on the grey drop down box adjacent to the title and choose Go to Announcement tool. You will arrive in the Announcement Dashboard.
Once there, go the Announcement you want to hide, click on the check box to the left of its title and then click on the down arrow to the right. Choose the “Dismiss from widget” option.
While its status will remain, you will notice that there is (dismissed) to the right of the announcement title and it does not appear on the course home page. To “restore” it Go back to the down arrow to the right and choose Restore.