Announcements enable staff to send notifications to everyone enrolled on the unit. This is a straightforward communication tool which can be used to announce, for example, when new learning materials are uploaded, to remind students of any upcoming due dates or to quickly communicate any changes to their schedule.
In the Announcements tab of your Blackboard course, you can:
- Create announcements.
- See a breakdown of how many announcements are posted, scheduled and drafted.
- Search your announcements.
- Check how many students marked their announcements as read (see the Viewers column).
- Edit, copy and delete announcements.
Announcements can include text and images as well as audio and video content which will be automatically captioned for accessibility. You can also choose to:
- Send an email copy of the announcement
- Schedule the announcement to show and/or hide on specific dates
Students’ experience
Students will be able to view all of their announcements in the Activity Stream on their Blackboard landing page as well as the Announcements tab in specific courses. When a student enters a unit which has a new announcement, it will create a pop-up for the student to view. Students can also mark the announcement as read.
