Making Announcements

Making announcements is done through a news forum. The news forum is found at the top of your course, and only instructors can add posts. All of the enrolled persons in the course will be automatically subscribed to the News forum. Announcements used to be called “News forum,” so if you are using an old template, you might see those words as well, but the functionality is the same. Following are the steps to create an announcement in your Moodle site:

Step 1

Under the title of your course, select “Announcements.”

Click on "Announcements" (formerly known as "News Forum") from the front page of your Moodle site, just below the course information.
Click on “Announcements” (formerly known as “News Forum”) from the front page of your Moodle site, just below the course information.

 

Step 2

First, add a subject, then your message, and any attachments. If you’d like to “pin” the announcement to the top of the screen so that it will always be first, click the “Pinned” box. To finalize the announcement, click the blue “Post to forum” button at the bottom of the screen.

Click on "Add a topic" just below the word "Announcements."
Click on “Add a topic” just below the word “Announcements.”

Step 3

First, add a subject, then your message, and any attachments. If you’d like to “pin” the announcement to the top of the screen so that it will always be first, click the “Pinned” box. To finalize the announcement, click the blue “Post to forum” button at the bottom of the screen.

Add a subject line, message, and any attachments that you want in the announcement.
Add a subject line, message, and any attachments that you want in the announcement.

Step 4

To post your announcement, click the “Post to forum.” Your announcement is now posted to your ISUComm course site.
To finalize the announcement, click on "Post to Forum" at the bottom of the screen.
Click the “Post to Forum” button, which makes the announcement public.

 

For Support

If you encounter difficulty during any part of these tasks, please e-mail us at olt@iastate.edu for assistance, or stop by 306 Ross during our scheduled support hours.

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