Canvas Announcements: Can Instructors Download?

[lewisale]

Happy New Year Canvas Community,

Is there a way for Instructors to download all of the Canvas announcements from a course?  

Thanks for your suggestions!

Best,

Alex

[rmurchshafer · Accepted solution]

Alex,

To my knowledge, no. At least no easy way.  

Rick

[lewisale]

Thanks  @rmurchshafer  for your response.  I have been cutting/pasting my old announcements into a Word document, and I had my fingers crossed there might have been another way.

Best,

Alex

[kimberly_smith1]

Hello Alex,

If your goal is to reuse announcements in a subsequent course, you might try the "Copy Canvas Course" feature. From "Settings", you can either copy an entire course into a new shell, or select only specific content to import into a course. Once copied, you can edit the imported content. Here is a link that explains this feature: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-copy-content-from-another-Canvas-course...

[dmacasaet]

Microsoft OneNote has a web clipper extension for Google Chrome called "Clip to OneNote." With the extension installed, go to the announcements page in Canvas and enter "Student View." Clip the page as an "Article" so that all the text is preserved, then save it to OneNote. Every announcement is available in one file. I do this as part of my reflective practice and copy and paste individual announcements into a database for further analysis, to see trends in my writing and opportunities for improvement. 

Hope this helps anyone looking to do something similar.

-David