This manual assumes you are familiar with creating announcements. To illustrate the concepts in this manual, mock announcements have already been made. If you want to create your own assignment, please visit the manual How do I create an announcement?.

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 Tool’.You will now be greeted by this menu:Here, you can create a new announcement and manage your current announcements. This manual will first delve into managing all announcements, then individual announcements.

Overarching options 

Deleting 

To delete announcements, you don’t go into the drop-down menu. Simply select the announcement(s) you want to delete, click ‘Delete’ and click ‘Yes’ in the confirmation window.Drop-down menu 

To get to the next options, open the ‘More Actions’ drop-down menu.Reordering 

Click on ‘Reorder’. In the Reorder Announcements menu, you can reorder assignments. Lower numbers appear higher in the announcements list.Restoring 

If you have accidentally deleted an announcement, you can restore it by visiting this menu. Simply select the announcement(s) and click ‘Restore’.

Managing individual Announcements 

There is a drop-down menu with many options to choose from.Editing 

Click on ‘Edit’. This menu is identical to the create-announcement menu. The only difference is this box. If you tick it, people will receive a notification of the edit.Viewing preview 

Click on ‘View’. This just gives a preview of the announcement. This is how it is shown to students. 

Dismissing from widget / Restoring 

This will remove the announcement from the Announcements Widget on the homepage. Dismissed announcements are not deleted, only hidden. They also will show a ‘dismissed’ flag in the Announcements Menu. This can be undone by again opening the drop-down menu and clicking ‘Restore’.Pinning to top / Unpinning 

Click on ‘Pin to top’. This will ensure that this announcement is always on top in the Announcements Widget on the homepage, regardless of sorting order. Multiple announcements can be pinned at the same time. A pin will appear in the Announcements Widget and on the Announcements Menu indicating that this announcement is pinned. You can unpin an announcement by clicking the pin icon in the Announcements Menu or opening the drop-down menu and clicking ‘Unpin’.Deleting 

Deleting an announcement this way works the same way as deleting multiple announcements. To restore the announcement, follow the instructions at the paragraph on Restoring in the chapter ‘Overarching Options’.

Copying 

Copying an announcement will open a draft for a new announcement. This is the same menu to create a new announcement. The headline and content will already be filled in from the original announcement. You can change these, and the other options, before publishing or saving as a draft. Copying could be useful to copy an announcement for newly published grades, where there might only have to be a number that has to be changed. 

Copying to other courses 

In the menu that popped up, you can select which courses you want to publish the announcement in (with a maximum of 10). It only shows the courses where you are allowed to send announcements. You can also choose if you want to immediately publish the copied announcement or save it as a draft in the target courses. If you selected all target courses, click ‘Next’. Here, you can confirm that you have selected the right courses and options. Then, you can click ‘Copy’ to definitively copy the announcement. Copying to other courses can, for example, come in handy when you want to announce in multiple courses that a lecture is cancelled due to a sudden illness.