Use the announcements forum

The Announcements forum is a specialised forum for unit-level announcements. Only lecturers and tutors can write or reply to posts in this forum. All unit participants including staff and students automatically receive email notifications (forced subscription). The Announcements forum is found on the Forums tab. The content is also pushed to the Forums block on the Unit Dashboard tab.

Suggestions on how to use this tool:

• Keep the Announcements forum for urgent/important announcements so students don't get swamped with emails.
• Use the groupings tool to enable sending specific messages to previously set groups.

Post to the Announcements forum

1. Click on the Announcements forum then click Add discussion topic.
2. Type in the subject and your text.
3. Check Send forum post notifications with no editing-time delay if you want all Moodle participants to receive an email notification immediately. Otherwise the email notification will be sent in 5 minutes, allowing you to continue to edit the forum post.

Note: If the forum daily digest has been enabled, users will receive one email notification at the 5PM, even if you have chosen to post with no delay.

4. Check Pinned if you would like to pin your announcement to the top of the forum.
5. When you are ready to post, click Post to forum.
6. If you have added the Latest announcements block, the subject line of the new post will appear in the block once the post is processed.

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