Sending an announcement to a specific section

Daniel.J.763

I know one can use the Email Classlist functionality to message specific sections in a course but this really pales in comparison to being able to have an announcement (which stays on the page and can be referenced henceforth) which is only visible by a single section. Notably, my TAs would like to have this functionality in order to communicate with their specific sections. I also made heavy use of this sort of functionality in the past when I was at institutions which used Canvas.

My specific questions are:

1) Am I mistaken and there is a way to do this? If so, I'd love if someone could walk me through the process.

2) If this isn't possible, could this perhaps be implemented as a feature in Brightspace? There's all sorts of core course information which should be available on a course website but which is only pertinent to some sections of a tutorial/recitation to a course so such a feature would be very widely used (and is widely used on other comparable LMSs).

Jon.K.955

In Announcements, you can choose to use release conditions, one of which is Enrolment in Section, that should do the trick. If in the Announcement creation page, scroll down to the section "Additional Release Conditions". Depending on the roles and permissions of the TA they might only see their sections.

Stan.S.520

Hi Daniel,

You can create a release condition for the announcement you want to go to the section. When you create or edit the announcement, scroll down to "Additional Release Conditions". Click on Create and Attach.

Select Condition Type - Section enrollment. Then select the section you want to see the announcement.

https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3444-create-a-welcome-message-using-the-announcements-widget

https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3432-about-release-conditions

Daniel.J.763

Thank you both for your answers! I assumed "release conditions" just had to do with the timing of when the announcement was released, I now see that it does a lot more than that (notably what I was looking for!).