Showing announcements on home page.

I recorded a week 1 announcement and scheduled it for Monday morning.

Looking at student view (both of current and scheduled announcements), they don't show up on the home page, but they need to click "announcements" to see them.

Is there a way to move them? I am thinking of Brightspace and how it is set up. I don't want students to miss them.

P.S. I have tried following the instructions in the course guide, but my page in Course Details doesn't have a place to click on regarding announcements.

Ty!

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dbrace

Hi @LauraCarter1,

The steps that @Chris_Hofer has provided are the normals steps that should be taken.

I wonder if you are looking at documentation that your own school has put together or what another school has available publicly. I mention that as a possibility because sometimes when schools put together their own documentation, they do not think to or remember to update the documentation when Canvas is changed.

In the deploy notes from last year for 2024-05-22, Canvas removed the "more options" area of "Settings" because there was frustration/confusion for why the additional items were concealed. This is found in the "Interface Updates > Course Settings > Removal of More Options Link" section at https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Deploy-Notes-2024-05-22/ta-p/603158#toc-hId-556814615.

Does that help clear things up?

-Doug

P.S. As two similar examples related to this, the University of Pittsburgh (at https://teaching.pitt.edu/resources/how-to-use-announcements-in-canvas-to-communicate-with-your-students) and University of Minnesota (at https://it.umn.edu/services-technologies/how-tos/canvas-set-your-course-settings) both have not updated their documentation related to "more options" in the "Settings" area of each course.

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Chris_Hofer

Hello there, @LauraCarter1 ...

For clarification, are you using the instructions outlined in this Guide?

How do I show recent announcements in the Course Home Page?

Looking forward to hearing back from you on this. Take care...be well.

LauraCarter1

Chris, Yes! I am using the guide, In my classroom, I'm not seeing a place where it says "Show Recent Announcements" under "Open Course Details."

Laura

dbrace

Hi @LauraCarter1,

The steps that @Chris_Hofer has provided are the normals steps that should be taken.

Does that help clear things up?

-Doug

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