Canvas Deployment Notes 6 November 2024 - Notification Option for Announcements in Blueprint Courses

[DanielGraham]

In the following update: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Deploy-Notes-2024-11-06/ta-p/619719

The notes state for the Notification Option for Announcements in Blueprint Courses

"When creating a new announcement in a blueprint course, an Enable New Item Notifications checkbox is available, allowing users to receive notifications for the new announcement.

This update ensures that users are promptly notified of new announcements in a blueprint course. This helps improve communication and ensures important updates are not missed, enhancing overall course management and engagement".

I'm not sure what this means. 

Does this mean that the notifications settings for students on courses that are linked to the blueprint will be altered for those courses to allow for notifications to be sent to the students with new announcements for those courses only? 

[HeatherAhern · Accepted solution]

Hi @DanielGraham ,

Currently, when a new announcement is created and synced from a blueprint course, students in associated courses aren’t notified, which can be frustrating for teachers. A common workaround was to set a 15-minute delay on announcements, hoping the sync completed in time to trigger notifications.

With this new setting, teachers can simply check the Enable New Item Notifications checkbox to notify students about specific synced announcements, without relying on time-sensitive workarounds. This does not alter current notifications settings. I hope this helps.

[Chris_Hofer]

@DanielGraham ...

Although you've already posted here (which is fine) and received a response from Heather at Instructure, I wanted to let you know of another way you can post your comments about Deploy Notes and Release Notes.  You had mentioned the November 6, 2024 Deploy Notes...which you can find at: Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-11-06) - Instructure Community - 619719.  Near the top of that page, just above the "Table of Contents", you'll find a box of information.  The bottom link within that box,  Feature Q&A: Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-11-06) - Instructure Community - 619791 , goes to the discussion area to discuss those particular Deploy Notes.  As of my response here, I see there are four people who have chimed in with comments/questions.  Again, while it is fine to post your question here, I'd also encourage you to use spaces like that to post your comments/questions/concerns so that Instruture staff could reply there as well.  Just my $0.02 for what it's worth.  Hope it helps in some way.