Moodle Tutorials: Adding an Announcement

Adding an Announcement

The announcement tool is a great resource to reach all of your students. When you post a message in the announcement tool, it automatically sends an email to everyone in the class, as well as posting the message on Moodle.

Each Moodle Course shell has an Announcements forum by default.

To use the announcement tool:

1. Open your class page and select Announcements, which is always located at the top of the page. 

2. Choose to Add a new topic.

3. Fill out the information with the subject and message of the announcement that you would like to send to your class. (To open additional formatting options, click on the little keyboard in the upper left corner of the text box.)

4. You can also add an attachment file (like a pdf of a course Syllabus) and email the announcement to all students enrolled in the course.

5. When you have finished composing and editing your message, select Post to forum.

6. By default, you will have thirty minutes to make changes to your post. If you wish to post the message immediately, check Send forum post notifications with no editing-time delay. *Note--students will not have the option to override the 30 minute editing delay.

7. The announcement will be sent out in an email to all of the students enrolled in the class. Additionally, it can also be seen in two places on your site:

a) when you first open the Announcements forum:

b) on the right-hand side of the class page in the Latest news block: