Blended Learning PD Resources
Course Announcement: News forum & Quickmail
The Announcements (formerly known as News forum) is a special forum for general announcements. A course may only have one News forum unless it has been imported from another system which supports more than one news forum.
It is automatically created for each course and for the front page of the Moodle site.
By default, it is placed at the top of the center section and only teachers and administrators may add posts or reply to posts. The default settings force every enrolled person to be subscribed to Announcements.
The My mail plugin allows instructors and TAs (and students, if the instructor allows) to send emails to course members from Moodle.
Video tutorial
1. Using news forum
2. Send Messages by Quickmail Block
Good practice
Announcements
- Announcements is a very flexible tool for delivering news and information, as it will send your posts as emails to the whole class.
- You can attach files, insert images or hyperlinks into a post.