Unpublish Announcements

[jennifer_childs]

I want to unpublish announcements. I still want to be able to see them but I do not want all of them to be visible to students.  I can only find a delete option.  I don't want to delete them completely. I just want to take some away for students to make navigation easier. How do I do this?

[Naomi]

Hi  @jennifer_childs ,

It's not currently possible to unpublish an announcement. We do have a feature idea that suggests adding that functionality to Canvas. If you'd like to support the idea (https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/1102-publish-and-unpublish-announcements ) you can vote on it and/or add comments.

As a workaround, you could save old announcements on your computer or another area of Canvas, such as an unpublished assignment or page, and delete old announcements. I know that's not an ideal workaround, but that will at least allow you to simplify which announcements students can see. If you have any further questions, please reach out. 

Naomi

[MARGARETHOLZER]

Sadly, this has been an "idea" since 2015!  What does it take to move an idea to reality? 

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello @MARGARETHOLZER ...

This document may help to answer some of your questions about development of Feature Ideas that are submitted here in the Community:

What is the feature development process for Instructure products?

[rislis]

You could also go to your course settings and click more options to change a setting that allows for only recent announcements to be shown to students. It's a great feature. I love it!!

[canvasuser12345]

Thanks for that workaround idea! I don't see "More Options" under the "Settings" menu. Would you be able to explain how you found the option to only see recent announcements?

[AnthonyGrant1]

Click on Canvas left hand side Tab - "Settings"

A top tab appears in the Settings menu and one would select the default "Module Details" tab

Scroll down on page to the Description box. Right under this box is a link for "more options"...

One can set the number of recent announcements....by default, it may be 2.

This should hide obsolete announcements when that setting is active.

[UlkuYuksel]

You can go into each announcement, then click edit, then click delay date option , select a date after the course, then these will not be visible to students but you can still see them and amend and post them with a new date when you want it announced. 

[DrButterfly1]

Hmmmm. For eight years now, Canvas users have requested the platform to add an unpublish button to announcements. Why has this not been done?