Send Account- or Sub Account- level Announcements to Inbox

It would be great if you could send an announcement to a students inbox - so they get urgent messages quicker. So there'd be EITHER a tickbox to say 'send this annoncement to all inboxes or all student inboxes', or a Notifications setting which meant, BY DEFAULT, all announcements went to their inbox and ergo their email notifications immediately (non - overridable would be my preference, as you only send out announcements if they're urgent or important).

The use case has come up where we're sending announcements out to entire sub-accounts (i.e. an entire Faculty or provision type e.g. all HE), and right now not all students are actively using canvas (this is our transition year).

But going forward, it would save staff having to use an email list to get the same effect.

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

For details, please refer to https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-18049-canvas-release-notes-2019-12-21 

13 Comments
dbrace
Community Contributor

Would an additional Canvas Community Idea need to be created to push an announcement's notification an additional time?

This would be helpful in the event that:

  1. a change (maybe a typo or some sort of clarification) is made to the announcement after it was posted or went into effect
  2. an admin wants to push the notification an additional time for:
    1. an additional reminder (yes, some users might be annoyed if they receive it again)
    2. more users to receive the announcement's notification in case they did not receive it the first time because of when their user account was created
      1. maybe it could be possible to sent it only to user accounts that did not receive it the first time
      2. this might be done by comparing
        1. the announcement's creation date
        2. the announcement's start date
        3. a user account's creation date
        4. the user's notification history
KristinL
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