Announcements are intended for informational purposes: if the Teacher needs to share some important message with Students, he/she creates an announcement that will be viewed by all course participants. The current announcements are displayed on the Home Page, as well as on the Course Home page (if other is not specified by the Course Home page settings).
To pass to the Announcements section, click the Announcement icon (
) in the top page menu. 
Fig. ‘Announcements’
The home page of this section displays the list of announcements (previous, current or upcoming). The announcements are listed by months. To view only the announcements of a specific month, click its title (for example, April 2007).
Tip: To provide better view representation, you can sort out announcements using the filter of the List announcements section:
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In the Ordering field select the sorting order: Ascending or Descending.
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In the Filter field select the group of announcements: None, Current or Upcoming.
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Click the Go button; as a result, announcements will be filtered by the specified criteria.
Announcements List
To pass to the Announcements list section, click the corresponding icon (
) in the top section menu. 
Fig. Announcements List
All announcements are divided into three groups:
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Previous announcements - announcements that are outdated and no longer current;
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Current announcements - announcements that are valid for the present moment of time;
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Upcoming announcements - announcements that are not valid yet and will come into effect in future.
The Announcements list displays all announcements that have ever been created, listing them by months. To view only the announcements of a specific month, click its title (for example, April 2007).
Tip: To provide better view representation, you can sort out announcements using the filter of the List announcements section:
-
In the Ordering field select the sorting order: Ascending or Descending.
-
In the Filter field select the group of announcements: None, Current or Upcoming.
-
Click the Go button; as a result, announcements will be filtered by the specified criteria.
Viewing Announcements
The Monthly view (
), Weekly view (
) and Daily view (
) sections of the Announcements section allows the Student to keep track of announcements in the form of a timetable. If you want to see all announcements per month, week or day, click a corresponding icon in the top section menu. The system will display a table with all announcements available for the specified period of time. 
Fig. ‘Announcements Monthly View’
Fig. ‘Announcements Weekly View’
Fig. ‘Announcements Daily View’
Clicking an announcement in the table will bring you to the home page of the Announcements section, where the selected announcement will be highlighted. 
Fig. ‘Highlighted Announcement’
Tip: To move along the timetable (i.e., to pass to the next month or week), use the back (
) and the forward (
) icons in the table. You can also use the calendar icon (
) in the left top corner of the table to pass to a necessary date.
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