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 certain students in a class. You can also add attachments.

Post an announcement

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. Learn more.

2. Click the class.
3. On the Stream page, click Announce something to 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.

Select additional classes

Announcements to multiple classes go to all students in those classes.

1. On the Stream page, click Announce something to your class.
2. Next to For, click the Down arrow select the classes you want to include.
3. Enter your announcement and click Post.

Select individual students

Unless you’re selecting multiple classes, you can select individual students. You can’t select more than 100 students at a time.

1. On the Stream page, click Announce something to your class.
2. Click All studentsAll students again to deselect students.
3. Click a student’s name to select them.

   On the Stream page, you can see the number of students the announcement was posted to.

4. (Optional) To view the students’ names, on the announcement, click number students.

Add attachments

1. Follow the steps above to create a post.
2. Click Add  choose an option:
   •  File
     • 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, click the Menu  Set as display image .

     • To remove a display image:

       1. Click the Menu .
       2. Select Remove as display image .

   •  Google Drive
     • Important: Google Drive items are view-only to students and editable by co-teachers. To change these sharing options, go to Stop, limit, or change sharing.
   •  YouTube
     • Important: YouTube attachments are only available to users when this option is turned on by the administrator. Learn more about access settings for your Google Workspace for Education account.
   •  Link
3. 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.
4. (Optional) To delete an attachment, next to the attachment, click Remove .

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 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

1. Follow the steps above to create a post.
2. 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

Scheduled posts might be delayed up to 5 minutes after the post time.

1. Follow the steps above to create a post and select classes.
   • To schedule the same announcement across multiple classes, make sure to select all classes you want to include.
2. Next to Post, click the Down arrow Schedule.
3. Next to the date, click the Down arrow and select a publish date and time for each class.
   • When you enter a time, Classroom defaults to PM unless you specify AM.
4. For multiple classes only:
   • (Optional) To replicate your selected time and date for the first class into all subsequent classes, click Copy settings to all. 
5. Click Schedule. The announcement will automatically post at the scheduled date and time.

After scheduling posts to multiple classes at once, you can still edit posts later by clicking into each class and changing them individually.

Save an announcement as a draft

1. Follow the steps above to create a post.
2. Next to Post, click the Down arrow Save draft.

Add a class comment to an announcement

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. Learn more.

2. Click the class.
3. On the Stream page, find the posted announcement and click Add class comment.
4. Enter a comment and click 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, click More Edit.
2. Enter your changes and click Save.

Edit a scheduled announcement

1. At the top of the Stream page, click Saved announcements.
2. Click the announcement.
3. Enter your changes and click Schedule.

Edit a draft announcement

1. At the top of the Stream page, click Saved announcements.
2. Click the announcement and enter your changes.
3. Next to Post, click the Down arrow Save draft.

Reuse an announcement

To reuse an announcement, see Reuse a post.

Delete an announcement

Delete a posted announcement

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. Learn more.

2. On the Stream page, next to the announcement, click More Delete.
3. Click Delete to confirm.

Delete a scheduled or draft announcement

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. Learn more.

2. At the top of the Stream page, click Saved announcements.
3. Next to the announcement, click Remove Delete.

 

Move an announcement to the top

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

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. Learn more.

2. Click the class.
3. On the Stream page, on the announcement, click More Move to top.

Format announcements

Bold, italicize, and underline text

1. Go to classroom.google.com.
2. Click the class.
3. On the “Stream” page, click Announce something with your class.
4. In the menu, click Bold , Italic , or Underline  to choose how to format your text.
5. Enter the text you want to format.
6. To turn off the formatting, in the menu, click Bold , Italic , or Underline .
7. Click Post.

Create a bulleted list

1. Go to classroom.google.com.
2. Click the class.
3. On the “Stream” page, click Announce something with your class.
4. In the menu, click Bulleted list .
5. 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 .
6. Click Post.

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