00:07: How do I view announcements as an observer?

00:10: If there are announcements in a course, you can quickly access the course announcements page

00:14: from your canvas dashboard, On the course card, click the announcements

00:18: icon.

00:20: If enabled by the course instructor, the course homepage May display recent

00:24: announcements, To view an announcement.

00:27: Click the announcement.

00:29: To view announcements from course navigation, click the announcements link

00:35: The announcements index page displays a toolbar at the top of the page, followed

00:39: by the individual announcements. Announcements are listed in Reverse

00:43: chronological order with the newest appearing first and the older announcements appearing

00:47: towards the bottom.

00:50: You can subscribe to the announcement RSS feed in your course or group and

00:54: receive announcements via any RSS feed reader.

00:57: To subscribe to course announcements click the external feeds link.

01:02: In the external feeds tray. Click the RSS feed button.

01:07: Copy the URL. In the browser address bar, then open your preferred

01:11: RSS feed reader and paste the copied URL into the text box.

01:17: Use the announcements index page, Toolbar to find announcements more easily.

01:22: To view only announcements, you have not read, click the all drop-down menu.

01:26: Then select the unread option.

01:29: To find an announcement based on words in the title enter terms in the search

01:33: field.

01:35: To mark all announcements as having been read, click the mark all as read button.

01:41: Unread announcements display an unread indicator.

01:45: Each announcement displays a title in the beginning of the announcement content.

01:50: If the instructor allows replies to announcements, you can see the number of unread

01:54: replies. And the number of total replies You can also view the date

01:59: and time. The announcement was posted.

02:02: To view an entire announcement in any replies.

02:04: Open, the announcement by clicking the announcement title.

02:09: An announcement includes three sections, the announcements toolbar the

02:13: announcement and announcement replies.

02:17: The announcement toolbar remains at the top of the screen when you are viewing announcement replies.

02:23: To search for replies or specific authors enter terms in the search field.

02:29: To filter replies. Click the all drop down menu.

02:31: You can filter by all replies or unread replies.

02:36: To sort replies by newest or oldest click the sort button.

02:41: To view threaded replies in a split screen.

02:43: Click the view split screen button.

02:46: To view threaded replies, inline click the view inline button.

02:51: When viewing replies inline, you can expand all threaded replies to

02:55: expand reply threads. Click the expand threads button to collapse

03:00: all threads, click the collapse threads button,

03:04: Announcement replies. You have not yet, read display and unread indicator.

03:08: To Mark a reply as read or unread.

03:10: Click the mark As read link or Mark as unread link.

03:15: If there are replies to a reply, the replies are threaded and collapsed.

03:20: When viewing collapse replies, you can view the total number of replies

03:24: and the number of unread replies. To expand threaded replies,

03:28: click the replies link.

03:31: If you are viewing expanded threaded, replies, inline expanded replies

03:35: display on the same page.

03:38: If you are viewing expanded, threaded replies in split screen, expanded

03:42: replies display in a side window.

03:45: If Allowed by the course instructor, you can like announcement replies.

03:50: To like a reply, click the like icon.

03:53: The light icon fills in indicating you of like, the reply.

03:58: When a reply is liked the light icon, also displays the total number

04:02: of likes from all users.

04:04: This guide has covered how to view announcements as an observer.