Announcements and doubts for teachers

Post an announcement

1. 1Open the Learning studio, go to My courses and click the course.
2. 2Open the Announcements tab.
3. 3Under New announcement, type a title (up to 140 characters), for example "Live revision class on Sunday".
4. 4Type the details for your students if you like (up to 5,000 characters).
5. 5Click Post to all students. You see Posted. Your students are being told.

After a moment, the announcement in your list shows how many students it was sent to, for example sent to 42 students. Only teachers see this number.

In the Android app

Open your course and, under Teaching tools, tap Announcements. The form and the Post to all students button are the same as on the website.

Who receives an announcement

• Every student whose access to the course has not ended. A student whose access period is over is not told.
• Each student gets a notification in Sikhami, a push notification on their phone and an email, as their own notification settings allow. See Notifications and Email notifications.
• Students read all announcements in the Announcements tab of the course player, the page where they watch the lectures.
• Only teachers can post. Students can read but cannot reply to an announcement. To ask something, they use Doubts.

Announcements are sent at once and cannot be edited. Check the text before you post. The delete button removes an announcement from the course, but the notifications and emails already sent stay with the students.

Answer students' doubts

Students ask a doubt from the lecture they are watching. The doubt is pinned to the moment in the video where they asked it. You get a notification when a new doubt is asked, and again when a student adds a follow-up.

1. 1Open your course page and click Watch as a student. The course player opens.
2. 2Open the Doubts tab. As the teacher you see Whole course first: every doubt in the course. Choose This lecture to see only the doubts on the lecture that is open.
3. 3A line above the list shows how many doubts are waiting for your answer, or All answered.
4. 4A doubt without an answer has the tag Waiting for the teacher. Click the time on a doubt to jump to that moment in the video.
5. 5Click Answer, type in Answer this doubt… and click Post answer. The student is told that you answered.

• Every enrolled student can read every doubt and its answers, so one answer helps the whole class.
• Your replies carry a Teacher tag.
• You can delete any doubt or reply in your course with its delete button.
• View profile under a doubt opens the profile of the student who asked it.

In the Android app

Open the course and, in the course player, tap Doubts. You can answer with Post answer, the same as on the website.

Co-teachers, announcements and doubts

Teachers you invited to co-teach the course (see Your teacher profile) can post announcements and reply to doubts too.

A doubt counts as answered only when the course owner replies. A co-teacher's reply reaches the student, but the doubt keeps its Waiting for the teacher tag and stays in Doubts to answer until the owner replies. New doubts are notified to the course owner.

Keep track of open doubts

The Analytics tab of your course shows Doubts (all doubts asked) and Doubts to answer (doubts the owner has not replied to yet). On the website the second number is highlighted while doubts are waiting. See Course analytics.

Questions