How do I hide announcements copied from a previous course?

Hi,

I have copied a previous course, including all announcements, but I would like the students to see them, when I think it is time to post them, not from the beginning of the course. (The students are already enrolled in the course, and its published).

How do I do that?

And is the "lock/undlock" function a solution? I cannot find any explanation on that.

Thanks,

Jeppe

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Chris_Hofer

Hello @jsc ...

In addition to the information that @Bobby2 provided to you, another option for you might be to use a sandbox course. (If you don't have one of these, talk to your local Canvas administrator who might be able to set one up for you.) Basically, you could copy your announcements to your "sandbox" course, and then when you are ready to release them, just copy them to your current course as needed. That way, when you copy content from one course to another before the start of the semester, you aren't having to edit all your announcements to set delay dates on them.

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Bobby2

Hi @jsc nd welcome to the Canvas Community.

Great question. Here's a guide for delaying your announcement posts https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10422-415250735

Enjoy.

Chris_Hofer

Hello @jsc ...

RobotBoy76

No one answered as to whether or not locking announcements worked. Still confused.

unknown

Why can't they simply add a "show/hide" checkbox?

cwakefield

yes please, hide/show or some version of that would be awesome.

dhulsey

Please add your voice to this idea conversation:publish/unpublish announcements.

MichaelLM

I had the same issue. Yes, you can import them into a Sandbox, as one user said. The alternative is to open each announcement, one by one, click on edit, and then delay posting by selecting the dates you want your announcement to become available. This is tedious, but doable. It would be nice if Canvas simply provided an option to Hide the announcement, like it does for almost everything else on Canvas.

mikeg

What a PITA. I'm wondering if anyone has done any scriptmonkey work to automate this process.

PaulinaPetkoski

Is there any updates to this question? What happens when you "Lock" an Announcement? Can the students still see the Announcement, but just not be able to access / open it?

ScottL

It would seem to be an easy fix for Canvas to add a hide button on the announcement drop down options. It takes me over an hour each session to change the due dates. This would be a time saving feature for us in prep.

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