Create Global Announcement capability at the Sub-Account level

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We are a mufti-college district with sub-accounts for each individual school.  We need the ability to post an announcement to just one specific school.

  Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-04-23)

[peytoncraighill]

Great feedback, everybody!

Let me workshop this with the team and I'll reply here with an update.

[1086095]

There is a growing need at our university for staff at the department level to manage course sites and provide support within their sub accounts. With their level of access, along with the type and purpose of their work, it is appropriate that they also have the ability to communicate with the instructors, students, and/or other staff who are in their department.

This feature would also require that these messages be somehow differentiated from the system-wide global announcements that LMS administrators post.

[ocardona]

Hi,

We started providing sub-account access to department chairs within the school. One of their requirements consist of adding announcements for sub-account course sections. Unfortunately, announcements is only setup on the root level. Please make this option available on the sub-account level in order for the department chair to have the ability to make announcement without going into each course section.

[peytoncraighill]

We recognize the pain here for sub-account admins, and we know how disruptive this issue is to the Canvas workflow at some institutions. This doesn't fit squarely into any particular upcoming project, but consider it Under Consideration. We have some additional investigation to do around implementation.

[mikeo]

This is so desperately desired at our school where we have Online & On-Campus sub-accounts.  Course-level announcements get ignored by students because they only show up with the same urgency as assignment notifications / new conversation messages etc.  Many of the announcements we need to make do not apply to Online students however and would be an eyesore for them.  Please implement asap!

[chriscas]

We actually have the opposite situation here, where we'd like to be able to make announcements specifically to online students (especially if something like our online media streaming system is having issues, like it is today).  We don't need to blast our entire campus with info that's not relevant to them, but targeting our online subaccount would be awesome!  I sure hope Instructure hasn't forgotten about this request!

[Renee_Carney]

We have great news!  You're going to want to follow this project!  Canvas Studio: Global Announcements

[Renee_Carney]

This idea is under consideration in the Canvas Studio: Global Announcements project.  For information and updates, please follow and bookmark the project document

[lalesi]

We are looking to create departments in Canvas and would love to have them be able to send announcements within the departments, also

[lalesi]

I hope this idea becomes a reality.   It's really needed in the K-12 environment!