Edit Announcements

  1. Click on Announcements on the left menubar.
  2. In the list of announcements, click on Revise under the announcement you want to edit.
  3. Make your changes and then click the appropriate button at the bottom of the page: Save Changes, Preview, Save Draft, or Cancel.

Delete Announcements

  1. Click on Announcements on the left menubar.
  2. In the list of announcements, place a check in the box on the right side next to all announcements you want to delete.
  3. Click on the Update button. You will be asked if you're sure you want to delete the listed announcements. Click Remove if yes; click Cancel if no.

Merge Announcements

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.

Unmerge Announcements

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.


Announcements Options

This is a place where you can set up how announcements look. There are three options:

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.

Announcement Permissions

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