Themes and Theme voting are currently on hold as the Instructure Product Team works on implementing a better solution to collect your feedback. Read Ruth's blog for more information.
I'd think any announcement you make, even those made to groups, would to the students here, the user dashboard, though if I'm wrong I'd love to have someone let me know.
We would like to be able to create a global announcement, but then only have it available to sections that have only college credit students in it. Right now if I select students, every student would see it and I only want certain students to see it. Is there a way to do this?
This is a request that Deactivated user and I have heard frequently over the last couple of months. We will raise the issue during our next capacity planning session, so I am going to mark the idea as Archived.
The " style="color: #2989c5; that is now open for voting may serve some of these similar needs in that you could use the group site's Announcement tool to send tailored messages.
I'd like to add my voice to the chorus. It would be really helpful if teachers from one class weren't sending materials to students in other classes (same course, different section). I assumed sections in Canvas would be analogous to sections in a school and in every school I've attended, teachers from other sections do not come in to our class and hand out their material. And conversely, our teacher did not go to other classes to hand out materials and make announcements. It appears that Canvas is behaving as if sections were really groups.
This is not permanently archived. This idea has been assessed and scoped by the product team, and they do not have the capacity at this time. It remains in their queue when they go through prioritization activities.
It's great to see that this is still being considered. We get a lot of questions about this from faculty. Using the inbox is an OK workaround, but it lengthens the workflow from just working within the context of a site.
