Announcements are a great way of getting timely messages out to your students, students are alerted to the fact that you have made an announcement in the module area iby a pop up box they have to click on to close when they access the module. They also see it in the activity stream and within the Ulster email.
Creating an announcement
📘 Instructions
Access Announcements via the Tool Options bar
Select the plus symbol or Create Announcement to compose your announcement and decide whether to also have sent to your students by email as well. You can also schedule announcements for a time of your choosing
Click on Save
You will then be prompted to ‘Post now’
use an info panel to highlight important info