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.