Post announcements to your students

This article is for teachers. Students go here.

You can post announcements to your class on the class stream. Announcements are posts with no assignments. You can use them to give notices or reminders to your students. Announcements appear in chronological order. If you want, you can move an older post to the top.

You can draft and schedule announcements and control who comments or replies to posts. If a student turns on notifications, they’ll get an email when you post an announcement.

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Create an announcement

You can post announcements to one or more classes or to specific students in a class. You can also add attachments.

Tap Classroom .
Tap the class.
Tap Share with your class and enter your announcement.

You can continue to edit and customize your announcement. Otherwise, if you’re ready, see below to post, schedule, or save your announcement.

Post to additional classes

Announcements to multiple classes are shared with all students in those classes.

On the Stream page, tap Announce something to your class.
Next to the class name, tap Next .
Tap any additional classesDone.

Post to individual students

Unless you’re posting to multiple classes, you can post an announcement to individual students. You can’t post to more than 100 students at a time.

On the Stream page, tap Share with your class.
Tap All studentsAll students again to deselect it.
Tap each student’s name to select them.
Tap Done.

Add attachments

You can add attachments, such as Google Drive files, YouTube videos, or links, to your announcement. Google Drive items are view-only to students and editable by co-teachers. To change these sharing options, see Stop, limit, or change sharing.

Follow the steps above to create a post.

Tap Attach

choose an option:

Attachment type	Directions
Drive	Tap Drive . Tap the item.
Link	Tap Link . Enter the URLtap Add.
Pick photo	Tap Pick photo . Tap the photo.
Use camera	Tap Use camera . Take your phototap Use photo.

Tip: When images and gifs are attached, a large version of the first one attached appears on your post as a display image.
To edit a display image:

Attach the images.

On the right of the image thumbnail, tap the Menu Set as display image .

To remove a display image:

Select the Menu Remove as display image .

Tap Save.

If you see a message that you don’t have permission to attach a file, tap Copy. Classroom makes a copy of the file to attach to the announcement and saves the copy to the class Drive folder.
(Optional) To delete an attachment, next to the attachment, tap Remove .