Tailor Announcements to specific sections or groups

[applem]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

It would be useful to have the ability to tailor Announcements to specific sections or groups in a course.

Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-14284-canvas-production-release-notes-2018-03-10 .

[huangdengpan]

It is very useful , hope to see it could be finish development as soon as possible.

Thanks Development Team.

[rasmussen_63]

My colleagues and I are currently abusing the Assignments feature in order to automatically release information to different sections at different times, but it's a hack, and it's counterintuitive for both them and us. Sectioned Announcements are the Right Thing and I await them eagerly.

(The use case is hints and help for an ongoing, difficult assignment. Each section has different class days and thus a different homework schedule.)

[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 (2018-02-26) .

[tuf77315]

Please add this feature as soon as possible. We want to have different groups within the same class and be able to send them tailored announcements as well as announcements to the whole class.

[Renee_Carney]

 @tuf77315  Did you read the Beta Release Notes we linked to?  It gives you the release timeline.

[tuf77315]

I see that announcements will be able to be sent to different sections - will instructors be able to send them to different 'groups' as well? Or does this mean that we will need to create separate sections within a class so we can send them customized emails or did I miss that sending emails to groups as an instructor will be added at a later point?4

Thank you for your prompt reply!

[hpalmersheim]

You can currently send emails to groups.  I go to the People tab and then click on your Group Set.  Next in the Groups click on the three dots to the right of the group name, Visit Group Homepage.  Then a new announcement can be created from there.  If you have a lot of groups to send to it can be a lot of clicks. 

[Renee_Carney]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas 

For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2018-03-10) .

[Renee_Carney]

 @applem  Thank You  for submitting this idea, as well as,  @James_Kocher_UF  Thank You  ,  @hpalmersheim  Thank You,  @jbuchner  Thank You, dperpich Thank You, blain.c Thank You, johnpj Thank You, patricia.guijarro Thank You, amilne Thank You, cms_hickss Thank You,  @KristinL  Thank You,  @sworrell  Thank You,  @lchallen  Thank You,  @Nancy_Webb_CCSF  Thank You,  @david_summervi1  Thank You,  @stacy_lambert  Thank You,  @RobDitto  Thank You, 1353520195 Thank You,  @paula_d_levy  Thank You, 20epope Thank You,  @huangdengpan  Thank You,  @rasmussen_63  Thank You, &  @tuf77315  Thank You, for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of Canvas!