Announcements page as course home page

Status: Completed Submitted by Instructure Alumni on ‎03-31-2015 01:02 PM
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As an instructor, I want to set the Announcements page in my course as the course home page. Students would see this page first whenever they access the course. Canvas allows a variety of other pages in a course to be set as the home page (activity stream, syllabus, a page I create); why not the Announcements page?

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Originally posted by: C. David Frankel
Thank you especially for contributions by: Mick Cunningham, Josh Blumberg

       

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42 Comments
SethBattis
Community Contributor
‎04-19-2015 09:44 AM

In fact, why not be able to set anything that you can link to from the Rich Text Editor in the course structure as the course home page -- announcements, discussions… a particular discussion topic, etc.

mlattke
Instructure
Instructure
‎05-05-2015 09:32 PM

We would love this.  Our virtual teachers have to provide a weekly announcement and end up changing their home page each week, but then the announcement is lost from week to week.  We try to get them to post to announcements in addition to the home page, but that is duplication of effort.

sgriffith
Community Contributor
‎05-08-2015 02:04 PM

The faculty I work with would love this feature!  Smiley Happy

16903
Community Novice
‎05-12-2015 11:07 AM

I would love this feature.  I am an online teacher and I have a hard time getting my students to view the announcements.

joanna_d
Community Participant
‎05-14-2015 11:42 AM

We have course templates but it would be nice to be able to embed announcements/ announcement banner within the page- i.e. if the announcements page and had a WZSIWYG too.

christine_mckeo
Community Novice
‎05-15-2015 11:44 AM

 @scottdennis ​, or other Instructure folks -- are you still looking for people to volunteer for user interviews, as you had mentioned on Announcements as Home Page : Help Center ? Thanks!

scottdennis
Instructure
Instructure
‎05-15-2015 12:04 PM

Hi  @christine_mckeo ​, I'm not sure.  Deactivated user​ would know better than I.

June 4th Edit; Adding  @peytoncraighill ​

christine_mckeo
Community Novice
‎05-15-2015 12:18 PM

Cool - thanks for tagging her!

mlattke
Instructure
Instructure
‎05-19-2015 08:28 AM

As we were looking at our home page template for the fall, it occurred to me that if there was an option for announcements to be the home page, I would want it to be like Syllabus, where you could have a space at the top to put some static information in, and then display the announcements at the bottom.  Or like an announcements widget or feed that you could add to a regular home page. 

As I think about it, that would be nice in general for all the home page options: to be able to add info to the top (like you can with syllabus), so that you can combine the power of the home page options with custom info for your course.

scottdennis
Instructure
Instructure
‎05-19-2015 09:23 AM

That is a great idea, Michelle - one worthy of its own idea submission I'd think.