The course announcement can be used to inform the students of any information that you want. If you select the edit course announcement the screen will look like below. You can type information in the large box for students to view. At the Course Management Menu, you can publish your own courses for others to copy your assignment list. This is a good feature for those schools with different instructors teaching the same course.
Instructors can share and use the same assignment list if desired.
After you select to publish a course the following screen will appear explaining information about publishing a course. At the Course Management Menu, you can edit the student alias by selecting edit student alias . You can either assign the generated alias to an individual student or ask the student to supply an alias. We typically use the last 5 digits of the social security number. The purpose of this is to be able to check your announcements, due dates, etc. for accuracy.