Copied Announcement posted on dates

[jeanderson3]

When I copy one Announcement from one Course to another Course in the same term, I'm baffled why the "Posted On" is left blank. Isn't this cause for confusion among students?

According to the Canvas Teacher Guide...

...Copied announcements display on the Announcements Index Page for the course into which it copied [1]. Announcement posting dates are not included in announcement copies [2]....

This seems like a simple thing to correct. The trouble is, when a student sees an Announcement after not logging into Canvas a for a few days, they may get confused as to when some action needs to be taken. Since I use Announcements as reminders to take action for all my students, there's no way that they would know if that action is now in the past, present, or future!

Come on Canvas Devs... Clear this one up...

[JamesSekcienski · Accepted solution]

@jeanderson3 

Based on the documentation you shared, it sounds like it is currently functioning as expected.  However, I understand this may not be ideal based on what you described for the student experience.  To suggest that they add this feature, it would need to be submitted as an Idea.  If no one has submitted this Idea yet, I would recommend creating your own Idea for this so the Product team is made aware of the suggestion and so it may be considered for future development  How do I create a new idea in the Instructure Community? 

In the meantime, but you could try manually creating a new announcement in the other course(s) and copying and pasting the text for the announcement.  If you have any links, images, files, and/or embeds in the announcement you may need to manually update those too to ensure students can still see them and that they aren't broken.  I used to take this approach since it also showed me as the author of the announcement, unlike the Copy To process.