Order of Global Announcements

[amanda_hood]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

For more information, please read through the  Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-09-15) and Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-10-13).

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We use Global Announcements very often, and I think two things would help the functionality:

1 - Put the + Announcement at the top instead of having to scroll to the bottom of the first page.

2 - Put them in order from most recently posted to oldest instead of having to page through to the most recent OR allow them to be filtered.

[rkahn]

Excellent idea, especially the filtering; i should be able to view current announcements only, past announcement, future announcement.

[Haidsong]

AGREE with putting +announcement button ON TOP of the page

and yes, either more control on sequence of the announcements or have filtering/SEARCH options

[martikl]

Moving the new announcement button to the top of the page would be very beneficial. Having to scroll to the bottom to post a new announcement, and wait for all old posts to load, becomes time-consuming. It would also be nice if active/inactive posts were stored separately. 

[jfountain]

The admin interface where system announcements are created currently (Admin > Subaccount > Settings > Announcements tab) displays system announcements from oldest to newest with no option to change the sort order.

Newer announcements are more relevant than those that are (very) old.  

Please change the order of system announcements through the admin interface to newest-to-oldest, or provide a way to sort them based on preference.

[jfountain]

In the admin interface for system announcements (Admin > Subaccount > Settings > Announcements tab), the +Announcement button is at the bottom of the screen under all of the historical announcements.

This makes it difficult to locate when there are many past historical announcements displayed, with a lot of scrolling down the page.

Please move the +Announcement button to the top of the user interface so it is quicker and easier to locate.

[hesspe]

Excellent suggestions and seems like both would be easy to implement.

[Stef_retired]

Comments from Instructure

Global announcements are displayed in descending order by date. This change displays the newest announcement at the top of the Announcements list. 

For more information, please read through the  Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-09-15) - Instructure Community  

[Stef_retired]

@amanda_hood We note that idea description also requests a change for the location of the + Add Announcement button. We plan to mark this idea as Complete when the deploy is released because one of the two requests has been fulfilled.

 @amanda_hood  Would you be willing to write a new idea specific to the first of the two requests on your list? We can then move the comments that are specific to that part of the request to the new idea and provide the link here for future reference.

Thanks!