In Scholar, a course announcement will appear in the My Announcements module of a start page and on the Announcements page. Some users choose to make that page the entry point for their course. There are two methods you can use to create an announcement for a course: Through the Qwickly module, or through the Course Tools for the individual course.

Announcements via Qwickly:

To create an announcement for one or more classes at once, locate the Qwickly module. It will be nested under the Tools link on your sidebar, and labeled "Qwickly Course Tools". 

Within the tool menu, select "Post Announcement".

This will pop open a window that will allow you to create the announcement. Select the courses that you wish to create the announcement for on the right-hand side of the box, and use the Subject and Message fields to write your announcement.

If you wish to email the announcement as well, select ‘Email Announcement’.

Click Submit to post the Announcement to each course selected.

Creating Announcement from the Course:

To create an announcement get to that page either by selecting it from the menu or under Course Tools in the Control Panel.

This will open the Announcements page. At the top of this page select Create Announcement.

On the Create Announcement page you must title your announcement in the Subject field. Then you can enter the announcement, including text, links, even audio and video in the Visual Text Box Editor.

Once you've completed entering the announcement information you should fill in options available under section 2.

For duration you can choose “Not Date Restricted”, which means the announcement will always appear on your announcements page. You can also choose “Date Restricted” and then select dates between which the announcement displays. Check “Display After” if you wish to set a future date for the announcement to first appear. By default, if you do not select this the announcement will appear as soon as you hit submit. You can then enter the dates in mm/dd/yyyy form or click the calendar icon to choose the date and the clock icon to choose the time.

Use “Display Until” to select a date and time for the announcement to exit your course page.

*By default announcements will display with the most recent posting first and with Not Date Restricted before Date Restricted.

If you would like the announcement to be emailed to all course users, check the box next to 'Send a copy of this announcement immediately”’. *This is necessary for an email about the specific announcement to be sent.

You may also include a course link in announcements. A course link allows users to click a link on the announcements page which takes them to the area of your course shell referred to in the announcement.

In section 3, click Browse. This will open a pop up window which mimics the menu of your course. Use this window to steer to the particular course item you want to include as a link.

The link will now appear in the course link window.

* Neither the course link nor any links to external video, audio and internet sources included in the announcement will work from an email of the announcement. The student must enter the course for these to work.

Having completed these steps you should click Submit.

Your announcement will be posted (a success message will appear at the top of your page) and, if selected, an email will be sent.