Announcements

[KarenaBenskin]

How do I delay Announcements copied from a previous semester.  I understand how to delay new Announcements, but not copied ones.

[dhulsey · Accepted solution]

@KarenaBenskin , currently, the only way to delay a copied announcement would be to edit the announcement and set a date in the future. Several years ago, I advocated for a publish/unpublish feature for copied announcements, but it was never implemented. 

For this reason, I exclude announcements when I copy a course and keep a OneNote notebook with announcements I use ever semester. 

I hope that helps!

[ly-huong_pham]

Many faculty members have been requesting a consistent feature from Canvas to be able to publish/unpublish announcement pages on specific dates or remove all dates when they are copies. Unfortunately, it seems that Canvas is not listening to its community. As a result, we have to choose between keeping the announcements outside of Canvas or dealing with the chaotic manner in which they are copied. It would be great if announcements could work like a page with the option to set them to be published by a specific date.

[KirstenThomson]

I agree it would be SO helpful if Canvas would fix this. The Announcements Redesign doesn't fix this at all as best I can tell.

Anyone have a better idea for the "outside Canvas" part than just a Word doc? I have a doc for each class with all the announcements I regularly use but it can be a pain to scroll through, even if I try to keep them in roughly chronological order of when I'll post them. I'm thinking some kind of organization of the file or maybe even a flashcard or database type system? I'm not very fluent in organizational apps so I don't know if this would even help in the way I'm thinking of. I'll look at OneNOte that someone mentioned and see if that would help. TIA!