Announcements
Find out more about the differences between Announcements and Notifications in Learn.
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From the beginning of the 23/24 academic year, all new courses will be delivered using an updated Learn interface. In order to ensure that users can access support materials for current and previous year courses we have kept old support materials on Edweb pages and created a new Sharepoint Learn site full of useful resources for the new interface.
For Learn resources for current courses, please visit the Learn Sharepoint (University of Edinburgh users only).
Here you can access the most up-to-date information such as:
- Good practice guidance
- Training and support resources
- How to guides
To access support material for older courses please use the pages below as usual.
Announcements and notifications may seem similar, but in fact they are quite different. Notifications are emails generated by Learn automatically. You can change how often you receive them or switch them off entirely.
Announcements are written and sent by a member of staff in the course team. They are visible through the Announcements tool in Learn, but staff have the option to send an announcement as email too, in which case you will receive a copy of the announcement in your student email account. The email's sender will be the member of staff who wrote and sent the announcement.
Announcements are only emailed by staff when they feel the content is important and so you can't switch them off.