Create an announcement in D2L Brightspace

Create Announcements

Share important information with your students with an announcement.  You can create announcements to communicate course updates, changes, and new information to students quickly and effectively.  Since the course home page is the first page students often see when they access the online course, announcements are helpful area to provide instructor-to-student communication.

Create a new announcement

  1. From your course homepage, click on the Announcements drop-down menu, and then select New Announcement.
  2. Give your announcement a Headline.
  3. Then enter a message in the Content field.
  4. Click Publish to make the announcement available to your students.
    An example of creating an announcement item, showing a a title in the Headline field and text and a URL in the Content field. Buttons are available to Publish, Save as Draft, or Cancel.
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