Merging announcements from another site is an option if you have more than one site. For example, if you have several classes and you want to make the same announcement to all your classes, use the merge feature. Click on the Merge link at the top of the Announcements page, then click on the courses you want to merge announcements from and then click on the Save button at the bottom of the window.The announcements from that class will now show up in this site's announcement page. You can see from the Site list which class the announcement originated from.
If you decide to "unmerge" announcements that were merged in from another class, DO NOT click the Remove check box and remove that way. That will also remove the announcements from the original class. Instead, go back into Merge (click on the Merge link at the top of the Announcements page), uncheck the box(es) for classes which are merged here, and click Save at the bottom of the page.
This is a place where you can set up how announcements look. There are three options:
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In the Display Options area, the three choices are: Sortable Table, Sortable Table with body, and List View with body. These are shown below in order. As you can see, the first option, Sortable table, doesn't take much room and is a good choice if you have many announcements. The Sortable table view with announcement body is a good choice for allowing your viewers to see announcements at a glance, but it takes much more room, depending on how wordy the announcements are. The third choice, list view, also shows the announcement body. It just looks a bit different from the previous two. Display Limits pertains to how announcements look on the Home Page and will be discussed in more detail there. |
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In this area you can check off options for each type of user. Students, by default, have "access" privileges, so they can read announcements but not create or edit them. It is highly recommended that you don't alter default permissions.
2/28/06