Multi-Class Announcements

[ndockter]

Hello,

I teach multiple classes and would like the ability to post announcements to multiple (or all) at classes once. These classes are not subsections but are different courses altogether, so the "post to sections" line is not an option.

Can we add a dropdown on the announcement creation page that allows us to identify to which classes we want the announcement to be posted? Or can we add an option to the homepage that allows announcements to be made with the option for multiple classes?

Thank you!

[lshulman]

This has been possible for a long time. Using Qwerkly announcements. Go into course settings, navigation tab, to add "qwerkly" to any course site. Using that to create an announcement allows you to select any number of course sites to post it to. 

Another option would be to post announcement to any one course and then "copy" announcement to any other course site. Though have to do that multiple times, for one course at a time.  

[callinger]

I agree that this would be a nice function. I will also share that the workaround we currently recommend at our institution is to use the "Copy to" function. The trick is to make sure that you use a "delay posting" option, even if it's only delayed by like 5 minutes to make sure that the "posting" time is after the copy. We use this pretty regularly to copy an announcement quickly and easily into multiple courses.