Field

Description

Announcement Information

Subject:

Enter a subject for the announcement. This is what will appear as the title of the announcement on the Announcement page.

Message:

Enter the announcement by either typing directly into the field or copy and paste text from another word processing document. The following options are available:

·          Smart Text: Automatically recognizes a link entered in the text box. Smart text recognizes the ENTER key as a paragraph tag and accepts HTML tags as well. Smart Text will also prompt to load images if an image source text is used when adding smart text as part of a content item.

·          Plain text: Displays text as written.

·          HTML: Displays text as coded using HTML tags.

·          √x: Opens the WebEQ Equation Editor.

·          <¸>: Opens the MathML Equation Editor.

·          ABC: Opens Spell Check.

·          Preview: Opens the text as it will appear to users.

Always show this announcement on the course’s main page

Select Yes and the announcement will appear on the Announcements area in the course.

Select No and the announcement will not appear in the Announcements area.

Restrict dates to show this announcement

Select the range of dates that the announcement will appear. Select dates using the drop-down lists or click on the icon for a calendar interface.

To display an announcement from a date forward, select a date in the first date field but do not select the Display Until option. To display an announcement for a specific amount of time select a date in the first date field, check Display Until, and select a date below.

Course Link

Link Location

Enter the path to a file or click Browse to locate a file to link to the Announcement. If the link points to a piece of course content that is not available the link will not appear in the Announcement until the content is available.

Note that removing the content will remove the link to the content in the Announcement but The Announcement itself will remain.