Notify Students About Updated Course Content

Relevant to: faculty and staff

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Introduction

You can notify students about updates or changes to course content. By following these steps, you can send students an alert notification which will appear next to the picture of a bell above navbar. Clicking on the alert will bring students directly to the updated content.

Notifying Students About Updated Course Content

1. On the navbar, select Content.
   
    
2. In the Table of Contents navigation bar on the left side of the screen, select the module that contains the topic that needs to be updated.
   
    
3. Select the drop-down menu found to the right of the title of the content item that is being updated and select the Edit HTML (Web Page) option.
   

4. When all updates are finished on the page, select the Notify students that the content has changed check box located above the Save and Close, Save, and Cancel buttons at the bottom of the screen.
   

   • If you want to describe your changes, enter a description in the Add a summary of the changes field.

   • If you want students to revisit the topic to complete the activity, select the Reset completion tracking check box.
     

5. Select the Save and Close button.