Announcements in Inactive and Unpublished Courses

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arovner
Community Contributor

Hi All,


Need your expertise to answer these questions - If faculty create Announcements before they publish their Canvas course - will the Announcements be automatically sent when the course is published or not?  (I'm thinking not but can't find the specific answer.)

Also we have a  Canvas course that we put all students in each term and then change the Course dates to the current quarter to "activate" it for that quarter's students.  If I wrote an Announcement before we updated the course dates, will all students be emailed the Announcement at that time or just be able to see it when they logged into Canvas?


Thanks Village!

Amy

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lindalee
Community Contributor

Hi  @arovner ‌,

Unfortunately, announcements posted in unpublished or inactive courses do NOT generate notifications when the course is published or activated. The announcements will be there and be visible to students, but they do NOT get a notification about them.

The best approach is to delay posting the announcement until after the course is active or published (https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10422-415250735 )

Sorry. Smiley Sad

-Linda

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