If there are announcements in a course, you can quickly access the course announcements page from your Canvas Dashboard. On the course card, click the Announcements icon.

If enabled by the course instructor, the course Home page may display recent announcements [1]. To view an announcement, click the announcement [2].

To view announcements from Course Navigation, click the Announcements link.

The Announcements Index page displays a toolbar at the top of the page [1], followed by the individual announcements [2].

Announcements are listed in reverse chronological order with the newest appearing first and the older announcements appearing towards the bottom.

You can subscribe to the Announcement RSS feed in your course or group and receive announcements via any RSS feed reader. To subscribe to course announcements, click the External Feeds link.

In the External Feeds tray, click the RSS Feed button.

Notes:

• If you use a Firefox browser to access Canvas, you can add a Live Bookmark from this screen.
• If you use a Safari browser to access Canvas, Safari automatically creates an RSS feed for you from this screen.

Copy the URL in the browser address bar. Then open your preferred RSS feed reader and paste the copied URL into the text box.

Use the Announcements Index page toolbar to find announcements more easily.

To view only announcements you have not read, click the All drop-down menu [1]. Then select the Unread option.

To find an announcement based on words in the title, enter terms in the Search field [2].

To mark all announcements as having been read, click the Mark All as Read button [3].

Unread announcements display an Unread indicator [1].

Each announcement displays a title [2] and the beginning of the announcement content [3].

If the instructor allows replies to announcements, you can see the number of unread replies [4] and the number of total replies [5].

You can also view the date and time the announcement was posted [6].

To view an entire announcement and any replies, open the announcement by clicking the announcement title.

An announcement includes three sections: the announcements toolbar [1], the announcement [2], and announcement replies [3].

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

To search for replies or specific authors, enter terms in the Search field [1].

To filter replies, click the All drop-down menu [2]. You can filter by all replies or unread replies.

To sort replies by newest or oldest, click the Sort button [3].

To view threaded replies in a split screen, click the View Split Screen button [4]. To view threaded replies inline, click the View Inline button.

When viewing replies inline, you can expand all threaded replies. To expand reply threads, click the Expand Threads button [5]. To collapse all threads, click the Collapse Threads button.

The announcement includes the announcement title [1] and description [2].

You can also view the name of the author [3], the date and time the announcement was published [4] or edited [5], and number of replies [6].

Announcement replies you have not yet read display an Unread indicator [1].

To mark a reply as read or unread, click the Mark as Read link [2] or Mark as Unread link [3].

If there are replies to a reply, the replies are threaded and collapsed. When viewing collapsed replies, you can view the the total number of replies and the number of unread replies.

To expand threaded replies, click the Replies link.

If allowed by the course instructor, you can like announcement replies. To like a reply, click the Like icon.