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.
You can post announcements to one or more classes or to certain students in a class. You can also add attachments.
Post an announcement
-
Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, you@yourschool.edu or you@gmail.com. Learn more.
- Click the class.
- On the Stream page, click Share something 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 go to all students in those classes.
- On the Stream page, click Share something with your class.
- Next to For, click the Down arrow
select the classes you want to include.
- Enter your announcement and click Post.
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, click Share something with your class.
- Click All students
All students again to deselect students.
- Click a student’s name to select them.
On the Stream page, you can see the number of students the announcement was posted to.
- (Optional) To view the students’ names, on the announcement, click number students.
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.
- Click Add
choose an option:
Attachment type Directions File
- Click File
.
- Select the file and click Upload.
Google Drive
- Click Google Drive
.
- Select the item and click Add.
YouTube
Search for a video:
- Click YouTube
.
- Enter keywords and click Search
.
- Click the video
Add.
To attach a video link by URL:
- Click YouTube
URL.
- Enter the URL and click Add.
Link
- Click Link
.
- Enter the URL and click Add Link.
- Click File
- If you see a message that you don’t have permission to attach a file, click 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, click Remove
.
You can post an announcement immediately, or you can schedule it to post later. If you don’t want to post it yet, 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
- Follow the steps above to create a post.
- Click Post to immediately post the announcement.
Note: If you don't enter text in the announcement, the Post button is not active even if you add attachments.
Schedule an announcement to post later
- Follow the steps above to create a post.
- Next to Post, click the Down arrow
Schedule.
- Next to the date, click the Down arrow
and select a date and time.
- Click Schedule.The announcement automatically posts at the scheduled date and time.
- (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
- Follow the steps above to create a post.
- Next to Post, click the Down arrow
Save draft.
-
Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, you@yourschool.edu or you@gmail.com. Learn more.
- Click the class.
- On the Stream page, find the posted announcement and click Add class comment.
- Enter a comment and click Post.
Manage announcements
Edit an announcementEdits affect individual classes. For multi-class announcements, make edits in each class.
Edit a posted announcement
- On the Stream page, next to the announcement, click More
Edit.
- Enter your changes and click Save.
Edit a scheduled announcement
- At the top of the Stream page, click Saved announcements.
- Click the announcement.
- Enter your changes and click Schedule.
Edit a draft announcement
- At the top of the Stream page, click Saved announcements.
- Click the announcement and enter your changes.
- Next to Post, click the Down arrow
Save draft.
To reuse an announcement, see Reuse a post.
Delete an announcementDelete a posted announcement
-
Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, you@yourschool.edu or you@gmail.com. Learn more.
- On the Stream page, next to the announcement, click More
Delete.
- Click Delete to confirm.
Delete a scheduled or draft announcement
-
Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, you@yourschool.edu or you@gmail.com. Learn more.
- At the top of the Stream page, click Saved announcements.
- Next to the announcement, click Remove
Delete.
-
Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.
Sign in with your Google Account. For example, you@yourschool.edu or you@gmail.com. Learn more.
-
Click the class.
- On the Stream page, on the announcement, click More
Move to top.
Format announcements
Bold, italicize, and underline text
- Go to classroom.google.com.
- Click the class.
- On the “Stream” page, click Announce something with your class.
- In the menu, click Bold
, Italic
, or Underline
to choose how to format your text.
- Enter the text you want to format.
- To turn off the formatting, in the menu, click Bold
, Italic
, or Underline
.
- Click Post.
Create a bulleted list
- Go to classroom.google.com.
- Click the class.
- On the “Stream” page, click Announce something with your class.
- In the menu, click Bulleted list
.
- Enter the text for your bulleted list.
Important: When you post the announcement, the bullets look the same as they do in the draft.
Optional: To turn off the bulleted list format, in the menu, click Bulleted list.
- Click Post.