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Why use it?

All Moodle courses come with an Announcements forum which teachers can use to notify students of important events and information. Messages are posted to the associated forum and sent as emails to each student.

Announcements provides a useful one-way communication tool for teachers and staff but are not suitable if you wish to develop a discussion with students. See Create a simple discussion Forum.

Step 1: Add an Announcement

Click the Announcements link on the course page and Add a new topic.

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Type a Subject, enter the Message content, add any Attachments and Post to forum.

Step 2: Settings

Info

Tip: Click on the question mark icon (blue star) next to any setting to display extra help or click on Moodle Docs for this page link at the bottom of each page in Moodle for accessing context-specific documentation.

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