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You can use Course Updates to create announcements in your course. Post updates in your course to quickly communicate brief messages for your students. When updates are posted, they appear in the Updates section and on each individual homepage of all members in your course.

Add a Course Update

1. Select your course from the Courses menu and then click Updates.
2. Add your update to the Rich Text Editor at the top of the screen and click Post.

Update Options

There are several options available for editing, formatting and sharing your updates:

Post an update to multiple courses

Use the quick post tool from the Recent Activity feed of your home page to post an update to multiple courses at once.

1. Click Recent Activity from your home page.
2. In the Post field at the top of the feed, click Update.
3. Type the content of your update, then search in the Post to... field for the courses to which you'd like to post the update.
4. Click Post to complete.

To edit or delete an update after posting:

1. Hover your cursor over the update and click the gear icon that appears next to the post.
2. Select Edit or Delete.

To delete a student's comment on an update:

1. Click the gear icon to the far right of the comment.
2. Click Delete.
   

Set the Updates area as the default landing page for your course

1. Click Course Options in the left menu
2. Select Edit Privacy/Course Settings.
3. In the Default Landing Page menu, select Updates.
4. Click Save Changes to update your settings.

Change an update into an announcement

To change a course Update into an Announcement, check the bell icon next to the Post button.

This promotes the update to the top of the Updates page and to the top of the Course page until you remove the announcement from the top.

Create Course Polls

You can create anonymous polls in your course to receive live feedback as members vote. To create a poll:

1. Type an update in the text box.
2. Click Poll under the text box.
3. Two fields display by default. To add more options, click the Add Option link below the fields.
4. Click the Post button to complete.