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.

1. Tap Classroom .
2. Tap the class.
3. Tap Share with your class and enter your announcement.

You can continue to edit and customise 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.

1. On the Stream page, tap Share with your class.
2. Next to the class name, tap Next .
3. 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.

1. On the Stream page, tap Share with your class.
2. Tap All studentsAll students again to deselect it.
3. Tap each student's name to select them.
4. 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.

1. Follow the steps above to create a post.
2. Tap Attach choose an option:

   Attachment type	Directions
   Drive	Tap Drive . Tap the itemSelect.
   Link	Tap Link . Enter the URL and tap Add.
   File	Tap Upload . Tap the file.
   Take photo	Tap Take photo . Take your photo and tap Done .
   Record video	Tap Record video Record video . Record your video and tap Done .
   New PDF	Tap New PDF . (Optional) To write notes or draw images on the PDF, go to Write notes on your work. Tap Save .

   • 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:

   1. Attach the images.
   2. On the right of the image thumbnail, tap the menu   Set as display image .

   • To remove a display image:

   1. Select the menu Remove as display image .
   2. Tap Save.

3. 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.
4. (Optional) To delete an attachment, next to the attachment, tap Remove .

Attach Drive files with earlier versions of Android

To check which version of Android your device uses, go to Check your Android version.

Android version	Instructions
Android 4.4 KitKat	Tap File   select a file to attach.  Note: You won't see the Drive icon .
Android 4.1–4.3 Jelly Bean	When you tap the Drive icon , you'll be asked to update your device. For instructions, go to Update your Android version.  The update might not work on some older devices, but you can choose another option: Copy the file link from your mobile browsertap Add link  to attach it. Use a computer rather than a mobile device.

Post, schedule or save a draft announcement

You can post an announcement immediately or you can schedule it to post later. If you don't know when you want to post it, you can save it as a draft. Your drafts are kept in the Saved announcements section at the top of the Stream page.

Post an announcement

1. Follow the steps above to create an announcement.
2. Tap Post  to immediately post the announcement.

   Note: If you don't enter text in the announcement, the Post link is not active even if you add attachments.

Schedule an announcement to be posted later

1. Follow the steps above to create an announcement.
2. Tap More Schedule.
3. At Schedule for date, tap the date, select a date and tap OK.
4. At Schedule for time, tap the time, select a time and tap OK.
5. Tap Schedule.

   The announcement will be posted automatically on the scheduled date and time.

6. (Optional) To schedule the announcement for another class, schedule it first for one class and reuse the announcement in the other class.

Save an announcement as a draft

1. Follow the steps above to create an announcement.
2. Tap More Save draft.

Add a class comment to a posted announcement

1. Tap Classroom .
2. Tap the class.
3. On the Stream page, find the announcement and tap Add class comment.
4. Enter a comment and tap Post .

 Manage announcements

Edit an announcement

Edits affect individual classes. For multi-class announcements, make edits in each class. 

Edit a posted announcement

1. On the Stream page, next to the announcement, tap More Edit.
2. Enter your changes and tap Save.

Edit a scheduled announcement

1. On the Stream page, tap Saved announcements.
2. Tap the announcement.
3. Enter your changes and tap Schedule.

Edit a draft announcement

1. On the Stream page, tap Saved announcements.
2. Tap the announcement and enter your changes.
3. Tap  More Save draft.

Reuse an announcement

To reuse an announcement, see Reuse a post.

Delete an announcement

Delete a posted announcement 

1. Tap Classroom the class.
2. On the Stream page, next to the announcement, tap More Delete.
3. Tap Delete again to confirm.

Delete a scheduled or draft announcement

1. Tap Classroom the class.
2. At the top of the Stream page, tap Saved announcements.
3. Swipe across the scheduled or draft announcement.

Move an announcement to the top of the class stream

You can move an announcement or any other post to the top of the class stream.

1. Tap Classroom .
2. Tap the class.
3. On the Stream page, on the announcement, tap More Move to top.

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