Moodle’s Announcements feature is a convenient way for you to communicate to students with timely information. Use it, for example, to make announcements about changes to the schedule, reminders about upcoming assignments or any other information you want to communicate to the entire class. By posting it to the Announcements forum in Moodle, you’ll have more time in class for teaching.
Announcements is available by default in every Moodle course. You will find a link to it posted at the top of your course page:
Announcements also can be displayed as a Block in the right column labeled Latest News:
There are two ways to add an announcement:
The first way is to click on the Announcements link at the very top of your main course page (see screen shot above). From there, select Add a new topic.
Alternatively, if you have installed the Latest News Block you can click on Add a new topic in the block.
Once on the general Announcements page, enter the subject and content of your message in the corresponding fields. This is a “rich text editor”, meaning that you can change the text in the body of your message much like you can in a word processor. You can also add links and embed images, audio or video.
3. When you are ready to post your message, scroll to the bottom of the screen and click Post to forum. All students in your class are automatically subscribed to the forum, so they will receive an email whenever you post a new item to the forum. Note: a course must first be published in order for Announcements posts to be delivered by email.
