You can allow students to like replies in an announcement even if students are not allowed to reply to announcements. If an announcement allows liking, users will see a Like icon within each announcement reply. By default, liking is available to all users in the course; however, you can choose to restrict the option to graders only.
The Like icon is enabled on a per-announcement basis and displays once there is at least one reply to the announcement.
As an instructor, you can also like announcement replies.
Open Announcements
In Course Navigation, click the Announcements link.
Add Announcement
Click the Add Announcement button.
Allow Liking
Click the Allow liking checkbox.
Set Liking Options
When allowing announcement likes, you can limit the users who can like to graders only.
To limit the liking functionality to only graders in the course, click the Only graders can like checkbox. When this checkbox is selected, only users with the Edit Grades permission can see the Like link. However, all users still see the total number of likes for each reply.
Note: Announcement replies are sorted in descending order.
Publish Announcement
Click the Publish button.
