Communicating with Students
Canvas has four ways faculty can communicate with students:
Announcements
Inbox
Discussions
Grading/Feedback
Announcements
Announcements can serve various purposes. You should use them to post information that you feel all students should be immediately notified of. What this information is can be up to you, and you can use it to enhance your instructor presence.
Announcements can be used to:
welcome students each week
provide wrap-up thoughts after an assignment or week
share important information about an assignment, current events or articles that are relevant to the course
You can access the announcements for a course by clicking the “Announcements” link in the left-hand navigation.
Then click the "+Announcement" button.
Announcement Options
Announcements allow you to select various options for how and when you would like to post them.
Options like “Delay posting” are useful if you want to post an announcement at a particular time but are not able to do so -- just set it and forget it! And if you want students to respond to your announcement, select “Allow users to comment.” To post your announcement, select “Save.”
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