What are Replace strings and how do I use them?

Manual Course & Users settings This article will explain how you can use Replace strings and which ones you can use in your course. Replace strings are functions, denoted with curly brackets {} which are automatically replaced by their corresponding values. Replace strings can also be used to personalise messages per user. Note: Replace strings

Copy an announcement

Copying an Announcement within a course or to another course. It is possible to copy an Announcement within a course, as well as to copy an Announcement to another course. On the Announcements homepage, click the arrow under the desired Announcement and then click the option Copy or Copy to Other Courses. Copy within a

Managing Announcements

This manual assumes you are familiar with creating announcements. To illustrate the concepts in this manual, mock announcements have already been made. First, navigate to the Announcements tool in Brightspace. To get here, when you are on the homepage of your course, click the drop-down menu on the Assignments widget, then click ‘Go to Announcements

Create an announcement

This article explains how to create an ‘Announcement’ and how to link a ‘Release Condition’ to an Announcement. This page contains information about: ‘Announcements’ in Brightspace allow you to easily and quickly inform students about important information regarding the course. Announcements can be used to welcome students, notify them about important deadlines, or announce that