Creating an Announcement in Blackboard

This tutorial will cover how to create an announcement Turn Edit Mode on Click on the Announcements link on the course menu. Click on the Create Announcement button. Type a Subject for your announcement If you like, you can select a color for the title. Type the text into the message area. Once the text is in place you can use formatting tools to create visual interest and to emphasize important points. I am going to emphasize a date I might choose to make it bold I might choose to make the font bigger I might change the color of the font And I might highlight the font My text is now formatted Now I must attend to the options All announcements stay on the announcement page for the duration of the course unless you apply date restrictions. If I choose not date restricted the announcement will appear within 5 minutes of the time I submit and my select date restrictions options will collapse. If I decide I do want to date restrict the announcement, I can choose display after which means the announcement will not display until after the date and time displayed on the screen. If I want the announcement to be invisible to students after a certain date, I can select display until and the announcement will become invisible to students after the date displayed in Display Until area In this case I want Not Date Restricted. I can choose to select Send a Copy of this announcement immediately which mean all course members will receive a copy of the announcement in their college email account when I submit the announcement In the course link option area you can link to areas in your course by clicking the browse button next to the word location then selecting the area in the course that you want to link to on the course map. This will place a hyperlink in the announcement. When your announcement is complete, click the submit button You can see I have an announcement with color in the title, formatted text, and a link to the textbook. You can now see that I have an announcement with formatted font and a hyperlink to required text. That concludes this tutorial on creating an announcement.