{"id":2297,"date":"2015-09-07T13:43:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T13:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2015-09-29T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T15:00:29","slug":"using-announcements-to-communicate-with-your-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/2015\/09\/07\/using-announcements-to-communicate-with-your-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Announcements to Communicate With Your Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this episode, Agent L aids faculty to outsmart Gremlins in the System (aka GITS) and get students to their first day of class.<\/p>\n

\"ben<\/a>Ben Friday:<\/strong> Agent L, you have a new mission. GITS have struck again. They have managed to rearrange all the room scheduling. Classes start next week and the faculty are in a bit of a pickle. They need to contact their students as soon as possible with the new room locations. How will you handle this? Will you go undercover as a GITS agent? Maybe reprogram their systems? What about\u2026?\"agent<\/p>\n

Agent L:<\/strong> Wait\u2026 Ben, have you heard of Announcements<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Ben Friday:<\/strong> Announcements? What\u2019s that? Some new fiendish plot from GITS?<\/p>\n

Agent L:<\/strong> Announcements is a tool in myLesley. Faculty can easily send out timely information to their students whenever they need to. Simply log into your myLesley course and click the Create Announcement<\/strong> button.
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Type in a Subject<\/strong> for your Announcement and the Message<\/strong>.
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Ben Friday:<\/strong> But what if the students don\u2019t log into the course site between now and class time?<\/p>\n

Agent L:<\/strong> Announcements can be emailed to them. The instructors don\u2019t even need to know the students\u2019 email addresses. Just scroll below the Message area to the Web Announcement Options<\/strong> section and check the Email Announcement<\/strong> box.
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Click Submit<\/strong> and every member of the course will now have a copy in their inbox.<\/p>\n

Ben Friday:<\/strong> That\u2019s brilliant Agent L. I\u2019ll spread the word.<\/p>\n

Agent L:<\/strong> Maybe via an Announcement (smirk).<\/p>\n

Check back for Agent L\u2019s next exciting mission. For more information on how to use Announcements, see the instructions<\/a> on the Agent Support site or view the video below.<\/p>\n