{"id":433,"date":"2023-12-15T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/?p=433"},"modified":"2024-01-10T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T21:15:34","slug":"creating-announcements-in-brightspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/2023\/12\/15\/creating-announcements-in-brightspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Announcements in Brightspace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Announcements are one-way communications with students in your course. Announcements appear on the course home page. When you post an announcement, students are notified at their college email address unless they have changed their default notification settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Getting Started with Announcements in Brightspace<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can easily access Announcements from the homepage of your course. Click on the small down-arrow next to &#8220;Announcements&#8221;  in order to: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Access the Accouncements tool (where you can edit, delete and manage your announcments) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create a new announcement <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reorder announcements <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Customize announcement notifications <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Managing Migrated Announcements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of your Blackboard Announcements will be copied into your Brightspace course. To edit them or add new announcements, go to <strong>Course Admin<\/strong> in the Course Navigation Bar, and click \u201cAnnouncements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click the drop-down menu to the right of the announcement on the list to delete, edit or hide announcements from students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Select &#8220;More Options&#8221; to reorder or customize notifications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For further guidance on using Announcements see <a href=\"https:\/\/community.d2l.com\/brightspace\/kb\/articles\/1705-create-a-welcome-message-using-the-announcements-widget\">D2L Brightspace documentation<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Announcements - Create an Announcement - Instructor\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-JlI6OdzwL0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><em>Adapted from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/kb\/article-categories\/brightspace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The University of Vermont\/Enterprise Technology Services Brightspace Knowledge Base<\/a>.<\/em> Used by permission.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to create and manage announcements, which appear on the home page for your Brightspace course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/bmcc-lms-transition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}