Announcements are the most straightforward way to broadcast a message to your entire class or sections of your class.

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Notification Preferences and Announcements

If you plan to use Announcements to communicate regularly with students, note this in your syllabus and tell your students. Students may have set their Notifications preferences to not send email copies of Announcements, so you could encourage them to set their preferences to "on".

Delaying Posting Announcement

Announcements can be set to post at a future date and time. Notifications will be sent at the specified day and time. When creating an Announcement, scroll down and under the rich content editor 'Options' is visible. Select Delay Posting and one will be prompted to enter day and time. Do not forget to scroll down and click Save. DelayPostingAnnouncement

Using Conversations (Inbox)

Conversations, which is labeled as the "Inbox," allows you to send emails to students and other people in the course without leaving Canvas.

How do I use Conversations?

Please reference this help article for more information about The Differences Between an Announcements and Inbox Conversation.