Posting an announcement
Most of what students see is planned into the six-week arc. Announcements are for the things that aren't: a room change, a closure, a deadline that moved, a one-off event. They appear as a banner above the weekly content.
Posting one
- Write it
Give it a title and a short body. Keep it to the point — a banner is a glance, not an essay.
- Set the severity
Choose how loud it is: info, important, or urgent. Urgent announcements can't be dismissed by students, so reserve that for things they truly must see.
- Choose who and when
Scope it to all cohorts or a specific one, and set when it starts and ends so it appears and disappears on its own. You can preview exactly how students will see it.
Because urgent announcements can't be dismissed, overusing them trains students to ignore them. Save urgent for genuine must-knows; use important or info for the rest.
They expire on their own
Announcements are time-bound: set an end time and the banner clears itself, so you don't have stale notices lingering. Past announcements stay available to reuse the wording later.
Common questions
How is this different from a help route or a weekly block?
A weekly block is planned content for a given week; a help route is standing support content. An announcement is a temporary banner for something timely that sits above the week's content.
Can I target one cohort only?
Yes — scope an announcement to a specific cohort, or to all of them.
Will students get a notification?
The banner shows in-app. For nudges that reach students when the app is closed, that's the student-side notification opt-in, not the announcement itself.
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