[ARCHIVED] How do I make the announcements visible to my students?

[rvaughn1]

What button do I need to select to make the announcements visible to my students? It's saying that it is disabled.

[Ron_Bowman · Accepted solution]

@JohnBlazier 

Based on the question @Chris_Hofer answered the question correctly.  There was no follow up as to whether or not the original poster had made the announcements link visible to the students.  Chofer answered the question by explaining how to make the announcements link visible to the students - that iw what the link provided by chofer shows.  If there was another issue, then it was not clear to Chofer and it is not clear to me either.

I do not see anything in Chofer's response about re-ordering announcements.  There may be some of that information in the guide, but that would be extra information.  I just looked closer at the guide.  The first part talks about the re-ordering.  However, at the very end it talks about how to hide/disable navigation links - that is the part that Chofer was getting at.  I guess he could have stated that the part about making the announcement navigation link visible/enabled is down near the bottom.

[JohnBlazier · Accepted solution]

The directions were not helpful because I had already posted an announcement and announcements were not hidden or disabled, yet the crossed-out eye icon remained. Apparently I needed to "Save" even though no changes had been made. I guess this is a fourth solution in addition to the three listed in that link.

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello there,  @rvaughn1  Welcome to the Canvas Community.  Thanks for posting your question.  Does your "Announcements" button have an eye icon next to it along the left-hand side of your course navigation?  If so, this means that it is probably hidden from students?  You'll need to enable the button in your course navigation so that students can click on it and read announcements in your course.  Please check out https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-12933-415257079 for how to enable the "Announcements" button in your course.  I hope this resource will help, Rosalynn.  Please let us know if you have any questions about this information...thanks!

[JohnBlazier]

This is a poor answer. How do you make Announcements visible? That's the question. No one asked how to re-order Announcements etc.

[Ron_Bowman · Accepted solution]

@JohnBlazier 

Based on the question @Chris_Hofer answered the question correctly.  There was no follow up as to whether or not the original poster had made the announcements link visible to the students.  Chofer answered the question by explaining how to make the announcements link visible to the students - that iw what the link provided by chofer shows.  If there was another issue, then it was not clear to Chofer and it is not clear to me either.

I do not see anything in Chofer's response about re-ordering announcements.  There may be some of that information in the guide, but that would be extra information.  I just looked closer at the guide.  The first part talks about the re-ordering.  However, at the very end it talks about how to hide/disable navigation links - that is the part that Chofer was getting at.  I guess he could have stated that the part about making the announcement navigation link visible/enabled is down near the bottom.

[JohnBlazier · Accepted solution]

The directions were not helpful because I had already posted an announcement and announcements were not hidden or disabled, yet the crossed-out eye icon remained. Apparently I needed to "Save" even though no changes had been made. I guess this is a fourth solution in addition to the three listed in that link.

[Ron_Bowman]

@JohnBlazier 

as I mentioned in the other post that is strange.  glad that solved your problem.  It would be interesting to know what exactly occurred to make that necessary.

[Jhburns100]

• I agree this is not a solution. Added content and the slashed eye remained with message not visible to students.

[queerprofessor · Accepted solution]

To make Announcements visible to users, make sure that the course's start date is set to the day you want to post the Announcement for students to see on Canvas.

-- Go to Settings

-- Scroll down to Participation

• the Participation tab should be set to Course

-- see the Start section 

-- Input the date & time on which you would like students to be able to see the Announcement on Canvas

-- Know that students will be able to access and use the Course's canvas page at this point (at the chosen start date & time). So, on the course Canvas site, be sure to unpublish any quiz, assignment, discussion, etc., that you do not want students to access.