Post an Announcement

To communicate with students throughout the term outside of the classroom, you can post Announcements in your Blackboard course shell. 

An Announcement can be used when you want to send a reminder to students; "Remember we'll be meeting in the Library tomorrow." 

To post an Announcement in your course shell in Blackboard, follow these steps:

1. Click Announcements on the Course Menu.
2. Click Create Announcement.
3. Type a subject for your announcement (think of this like the subject line in an email).
4. Type your message for students in Message.
5. You can choose to have your announcement emailed to all your students in addition to posting it in Blackboard. Check Send a Copy of this Announcement Immediately to do so.
6. Click Submit.
   
   

Note that sending an announcement from your course shell only sends the announcement to students in that section of the course. There is a way to send an announcement to students in multiple courses or sections at the same time using Qwickly.