By default, announcements appear on a student's home page. Announcements can be accessed from several places on the page. In this example, you can see that the Announcements tool is available under the Student Tools menu. Announcements are also available in the What's New block, where the Announcements block is displayed, as shown in the following screenshot:
Once the student is inside our demonstration course, he/she will notice that the course also has an Announcements block on the course's Homepage, as shown in the following screenshot:
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Why you should add the Announcements block to your course's home page
In the preceding screenshot of the student's home page, there are three places where the student can access announcements. However, don't rely on this! That's because the student's home page can be edited by him/her. So the student could remove these tools from his/her home page. In the immediately preceding screenshot of the course's Homepage page, the My Announcements...