Copy an Announcement to Other Courses

If you teach multiple courses, there is a feature within the Announcements tool to let you easily copy an announcement from one of your courses into all of your other ones.

Step 1: Post a new Announcement in one course

If you haven't done so yet, create the announcement in one of your courses.

  1. Go to your course's homepage and open the Announcements tab.
  2. Click + Add New at the top.
  3. Enter a Headline, which will be displayed as a bold heading above the announcement.
  4. Enter the Content of the announcement.
  5. The Start Date of the announcement will default to the current time; to have the announcement become visible at a scheduled time, click the Start Date and choose a different date from the calendar.
  6. Unless you intend for the announcement to remain visible forever, choose "Remove announcement based on end date" and set the desired date.
  7. Add attachments if desired.
  8. When you're finished, click the Publish button at the bottom of the screen.

You will end up within the instructor's Announcements tool. Don't leave-- the copy feature is on this screen.

Step 2: Copy the Announcement

The normal copy process in eConestoga is a "pull" copy-- you stand in the destination course, and then "pull" objects from elsewhere into the current course. The announcement copy feature works the other way, as a "push" copy-- you stand in the course where the announcement currently exists, then pick one or more other courses to push it into.

  1. If you aren't there already, go to Course Tools -> Announcements.
  2. Click the drop-down arrow beside the title of the announcement you want to copy, and choose "Copy to Other Courses".
    3. The instructor has searched for the course code PANG1080. Seven results for that course came up from across three semesters. The instructor checked the boxes for the sections from the current semester as destinations for the copy.
  3. Search for the courses you want to copy into, either by course code (e.g., COMP1234) or semester code (e.g., 24W).
  4. Check the boxes beside all of the other courses you want to copy to, then click Next at the bottom.
  5. On the next screen, make sure to check the "Publish Announcement on Copy" checkbox at the top. If you forget to, the announcement will arrive in "Draft" status in the destination courses, and you will need to manually publish it in each one.
  6. Click Copy at the bottom.

The announcement will then be copied into the other selected courses and immediately published.

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