--- title: How do I create an Announcement? description: Announcements can created almost anywhere in Canvas.   Announcements are used to communicate with students about the logistics of your course. As soon as you have created an Announcement, Canvas takes --- [Skip to content](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/787638#main-content) English Show submenu for translations ![logo.png\]](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/logo.png?height=40&name=logo.png) Open main navigation Close main navigation - English Show submenu for translations - Go to CTL Homepage Go to CTL Homepage Hello. How can we help you? - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 1. [CTL Knowledge Base](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/?hsLang=en) 2. [Courseworks (Canvas)](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/courseworks-canvas?hsLang=en) 3. [Communicating With Students](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/courseworks-canvas?hsLang=en#communicating-with-students) # How do I create an Announcement? Announcements can created almost anywhere in Canvas.   ## Announcements Announcements are used to communicate with students about the logistics of your course. As soon as you have created an Announcement, Canvas takes care of notifying students according to their preferred Notification Preferences. In Canvas, you have the option of feeding posts from your blog or other information sources directly into your Announcements page using RSS. RSS feeds can be filtered by keyword to prevent irrelevant content from entering the course. Students who use RSS readers can subscribe to course Announcements outside of Canvas. Please watch the following video that walks you through the steps of how to add Announcements: [519 - Announcements Overview](https://vimeo.com/72222376) from [Canvas LMS](https://vimeo.com/canvaslms) on [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com). [View the script for this video.](http://goo.gl/sc3nlA) [Announcements Resources](https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10460#jive_content_id_Announcements) from the [Canvas Instructor Guides](https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10460/) *Updated: August 31st, 2016; rtr* - [Courseworks (Canvas)](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/courseworks-canvas?hsLang=en#main-content) - [General](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/courseworks-canvas?hsLang=en#general) - [Setting Up Your Course](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/courseworks-canvas?hsLang=en#setting-up-your-course) - [Managing Course Content](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/courseworks-canvas?hsLang=en#managing-course-content) - [Assessing Students](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/courseworks-canvas?hsLang=en#assessing-students) - [Communicating With Students](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/courseworks-canvas?hsLang=en#communicating-with-students) - [Panopto](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/panopto?hsLang=en) - [EdBlogs](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/edblogs?hsLang=en) - [Mediathread](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/mediathread?hsLang=en#main-content) - [General](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/mediathread?hsLang=en#general) - [Instructor](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/mediathread?hsLang=en#instructor) - [Student](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/mediathread?hsLang=en#student) - [Poll Everywhere](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/poll-everywhere?hsLang=en) - [General Information](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/general-information?hsLang=en) - [Google Apps for Education](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/google-apps-for-education?hsLang=en) - [ColumbiaLearn on YouTube](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/columbialearn-on-youtube?hsLang=en) - [Video Production Requests](https://support.ctl.columbia.edu/video-production-requests?hsLang=en) CTL Knowledge Base Copyright © 2026