Use the Announcements Forum in Moodle

An Announcements forum is automatically created for the course home page of every course. To access the forum, in the course summary section, click Announcements forum and the forum will display.

For best practice, rename the "Announcements" to "Latest News and Announcements".

1. On the course home page, in the course summary section (Section 0), under the Announcements forum link, click Edit, and then click Edit settings .
   
2. On the Updating: Forum page, in the Forum name field, change the name to "Latest news and announcements".
   
   
    
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save and return to course.
   
   

Only teachers and administrators may post to the Latest News and Announcements forum.

1. On the course home page, in the course summary section (Section 0), open the Latest News and Announcements forum.
   
   
    
2. On the Latest News and Announcements page, click Add a new topic.
   
   
    
3. On the new discussion topic page, enter the Subject of the announcement, and add detail in the Message box.
   
   
    
4. At Subscription, select whether you want to receive email copies of posts to the forum.
   
   
    
5. If you wish, include an Attachment of one or more files. If you attach an image, it will display below the text of the message.
   
   
    
6. If you tick the Mail now check box, the announcement email will be sent to everyone who is subscribed to the forum, without the usual delay to allow for possible editing of your forum post.
   
   Mail now
   Selecting the Mail now check box will only result in subscribers being notified immediately if, in editing their student profile, under Email digest type, they have selected No digest (single email per forum post). If they have selected Complete or Subjects, they will be notified of this forum post along with their other daily digest notifications.
   
   
    
7. Click Post to forum. You now have 30 minutes in which you can return to edit or delete the announcement, before it is emailed to all those enrolled in the course.
   
   

1. On the Announcements forum page, click the announcement title. The post displays.
   
   
2. Click Edit at the bottom right of the post.
   
   
    
3. On the Edit page, make changes as desired and click Save changes.
   
   
    

1. On the Announcements forum page, click the announcement title. The post displays.
2. Click Delete at the bottom right of the post. A confirmation message displays above the post.
   
   
    
3. Click Continue. The post is deleted.
   
   
    

Only teachers and administrators may post to or reply to posts on the Announcements forum. You may want to comment on another teacher's announcement, or make changes to your own after the post-editing time limit has passed. If you do:

1. On the Announcements forum page, click the announcement title. The post displays.
2. Click Reply at the bottom right of the post.
   
   
    
3. On the Reply page, type in a Message, include an Attachment as desired, click Mail now if the post is urgent and click Post to forum.

If you accidentally delete the Announcements forum, or lose it by migrating a Blackboard course into the Moodle course, you can retrieve it using the following workaround:

1. On the course home page, add a Latest announcements block to the blocks column on the left.
   
   
2. When the new block displays, click Add a new topic.
   
3. Create a test topic.
4. Close the new thread, and the Announcements forum will display in the General section of the page.