Adding an Announcement
Announcements are a good place to:
- Welcome your students as they enter your class for the first time.
- Notify students of changes in the course such as schedule corrections.
- Offer a preview of upcoming activities.
Course announcements most often occupy the main frame upon entry to a course Web site, but also can appear on the My Institution and Courses area depending on the system configuration.
Step 1: Click on the Control Panel link and click on Announcements.
Step 2: Click on the Add Announcement button.
Step 3: In the Subject field, enter the title of the announcement. In the Message text box, enter what you would like your announcement to be.
Step 4: Next, you will get to configure the options for your announcement. Decide if you would like this particular announcement to always be shown. Also, you can decide to show the announcement after a certain date up until a certain date, with the Display After and Display Until options.
Step 5: To place a link that will take the student directly to an area within Blackboard or to another website, click on the Browse button. This will open up a page for you to locate where the link will take a student, when it is clicked. For this example, we have chosen to link to the first assignment. Click on the Submit button to submit the link.
Step 6: Click on the Submit button to submit the announcement.
Step 7: You will receive a receipt page. This notifies you that the creation of an announcement was successful. Click on the 
button to close the receipt page.
Step 8: This will bring you back to the announcements page, where you will have three options. The first option is to modify the announcement that you just created. Click on the Modify button to do so. The second option is to remove the announcement that you just created. Click on the Remove button to do so. The last option is to accept the announcement as is. To do so, click on the button.