>> Hello and welcome to the Canvas FastTrack.
In this two-and-a-half-minute video, we will discuss why,
when, and how using announcements can be easy,
timesaving, and beneficial to any teacher
and student getting started with Canvas.
At the beginning of the school year,
do you know all your late start or early release dates?
Do you know when the field trip to the local planetarium is
or the science fair day?
This is something you can set up to blast as an announcement
to the students the week of or the day before that objective
or reminder is needing to be sent out.
Send out announcements when you start a new unit.
Send announcements when year-end testing
or quarterly assessments are coming up to remind students
to get a good night's sleep and get breakfast.
This is an easy way to have notifications go out
and all you had to do was set it up once.
In order to be time efficient,
utilize the delay posting feature
so that you can create all your major announcements at once,
then set the day and the time you would like this
to send out to students.
Will send out via email or,
if students enable push notifications,
they'll receive notification at that time.
Other announcement options and great uses.
Reminders of birthday spotlights.
A show and tell schedule.
Hope for field trip volunteers.
College recruiters on campus.
Parent-teacher conferences, study sessions,
school fundraisers, school dances, and lots, lots more.
Immediate updates are another great way
to utilize canvas announcements.
Did you get hit by that major snowstorm on the east coast
or the ice storm in the pacific northwest?
Let students know immediately that there is a delayed start
and they can access their activities while at home
on that delayed start.
You can create announcements on the go as well.
Did you forget to let everyone know you're meeting
in the library today instead of the classroom?
Send an announcement from the mobile app.
Just click on the little icon, open up the announcement,
and then use text-to-talk so you don't have to type in that space
on that tiny keyboard.
These announcements will send out immediately.
Thank you for joining us on this quick FastTrack.
Let us know if there's any other topics you'd like us to cover.