Announcements as Home Page

[stefonikbenjami]

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Canvas should allow the option of having Announcements populate the homepage.  I post weekly announcements in my course and I want students to have immediate access to that info when they first login into the Canvas home page.  Forcing students to click to announcements reduces the likelihood they will read the announcements. Announcements as home page is a basic feature of any LMS and I think it is a glaring omission that Canvas does not offer this feature.

Comments from instructure

For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-01-07)

[Renee_Carney]

  This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta How do I access the Canvas beta environment?

For more information, please read through the Canvas Beta Release Notes (2016-12-19)

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[wakimsu]

Hurray!!! 

[Renee_Carney]

  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-01-07)

[Renee_Carney]

Thank you to stefonikbenjamin for submitting this idea, as well as,  @Chris_Hofer ​,  @ProfessorBeyrer ​, jeanne.kerl​, dpt11​, randolm​,  @hello1 ​,  @wakimsu  for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of Canvas!