Global Announcements ONLY for active courses

Global announcments are great. However, for k-12 schools, once students have move from the middle school to the high school, they should no longer receive the middle school principal’s global annoucements. We had a series of middle school global announcements that we thought would be sent to only the middle schoolers but learned that anyone at any point, who had been enrolled in a course in the middle school sub-account would receive that sub-accounts global announcment. 

Basically, my request is for Canvas to add a setting to only allow global announcments for courses in ACTIVE terms for sub-accounts and not for all students enrolled in past enrolled courses. This would keep sub-account announcments seen only by those in the sub-accounts. 

  Perhaps there is a simple checkbox that sub-account admins can use when posting a global announcment and choose to send to all courses (past enrollments included) or to just the current active courses. 

Until we have this setting changed, my elementary and middle school principals can not really use global announcments.    But I know Canvas does a great job listening to us users and I hope this is something that would move Canvas forward for all users. 

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-06-06) 

37 Comments
BradMoser
Community Coach
Community Coach
Author

YES!!!! Thank you for listening and making this small change that betters the user of Canvas with schools that have sub-accounts!  Well done Canvas! 

david_amore
Community Participant

Fantastic! Looking forward to the June 6.

Thanks Stefanie.

Stef_retired
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni
Comments from Instructure

Global Announcements and notifications are only displayed to users with active enrollments in the current term. For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-06-06) 

 @BradMoser  Thank You for sharing this idea and for your contributions. Your investment helped refine functionality that is now part of Canvas.

BradMoser
Community Coach
Community Coach
Author

Thank you, Stefanie! 

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Stef_retired
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni

Great pic, Brad! Smiley Happy 

KristinL
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