## Announcements: Overview

### What it does

The Announcements tool is used to inform site participants about current items of interest. Announcements can have multiple attachments, such as documents or URLs.

To see the Announcements from all the sites to which you belong, in the menubar of My Workspace, click `Announcements`.

### Key concepts

Sorting: Announcements can be sorted by subject, sender, access, or date.

Posting: Announcements are posted to a course or project site. Site owners and instructors can choose to have an announcement automatically sent via email to all site participants by using the "required" or "high" notification setting.

### Things to consider

- Announcements are a useful way to post a notice about an important change in deadlines, meeting times, or meeting locations.
- You can draft and save an announcement before you send it out to site participants. Your drafts will be shown with a "Draft" marker in your list of announcements.