Add an announcement in an Ultra Course
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Use announcements to share important, time-sensitive information.
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Announcements are displayed as a pop-up immediately upon entry to a course. The new active course announcement will appear the first time students enter your course. Students must close the New Course Announcement window before they can view course content. The announcement pop-up window will appear for each new announcement you post. |
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Announcements can no longer be set as the default course landing page — the content page will always be the default course landing. |
Add an announcement
On the Course Content page in the Details & Actions panel, select the announcements link to get started.
The New Announcement page appears. Click on the 
to add a new announcement.
Send an email copy of the announcement
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You can't send an email copy for an announcement scheduled to display in the future. |
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| If you post an announcement and forget to select the email copy check box, you'll need to create a new announcement. If you edit the announcement and select email copy and post it again, the email isn't sent. |
Schedule an announcement
Select the Schedule announcement check box.
Select the Show on check box and use the calendar and clock icons to select the date and time you would like to announcement to post and become available to students. If desired, select a Hide on date and time. Select Save and the
Select Save to save your announcement as a draft.
On the Course Announcements page, you can see the status of your post. If you scheduled the announcement to be released in the future, the status will read Scheduled. If you did not schedule a future release date, you will see an option to "Post Now". Select Post Now when you're ready to release the announcement to students.
The count of posted and total course announcements updates are visible in the Details & Actions panel.
