How-to Guide: Close a System-Wide Announcement in Canvas

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• What’s a “system-wide announcement”?
• How do I remove a system-wide announcement from my User Dashboard?

What’s a “system-wide announcement”?

Have you ever logged into Canvas and seen a message appear at the top of your User Dashboard?

This message is a system-wide announcement. It is used to share important information to Canvas users at the University of Pennsylvania, such as:

• Information on how to request Canvas sites near the start of a new term
• Maintenance-related outages for tools used in Canvas (e.g., Turnitin)
• Events and services of interest to Canvas users at the University of Pennsylvania

It can be useful to allow a system-wide announcement to display as a reminder of important information, and they go away automatically when they are no longer relevant. However, if you no longer need to see a system-wide announcement, you can remove it from your User Dashboard.

How do I remove a system-wide announcement from my User Dashboard?

You can remove a system-wide announcement from your User Dashboard by clicking on the X in its upper-right corner.

Important: 

• Please note that once you remove a system-wide announcement, it is permanently deleted from your User Dashboard, so please be certain that you want to remove a system-wide announcement before doing so.

Please email canvas@pobox.upenn.edu if you have any questions.

*Taken with permission from infocanvas.upenn.edu