Let's take a brief look at Announcements:
Note that clicking on the arrow icon next to Announcements displays a pop-up menu. When you want to open or affect an item, Blackboard often places the menu items for doing this, in a pop-up menu next to the item. When you want to manipulate an item, look for the pop-up menu (the arrow icon) next to that item, and if you can't find the pop-up menu, then look in the menu bar at the top of the page.
In this example, clicking on Open brought us to the Announcements page. This shows all the announcements that the student has received for this course:
Note that when a student accesses Announcements from the front page of a course, the student is viewing the announcements for that course only, and not for any other courses. In addition, Announcements are displayed and hidden according to the dates set by the instructor.
You will learn how to use the Announcements tool in Chapter 9,Communicating with Students Using E-mails, Messages, and Announcements.