You can post announcements to your class on its Stream page.
Announcements are posts with no assignments..
Announcements appear on the Stream page in chronological order.
Unlike items on the Classwork page, they can’t be reordered or put under topics, so use them
to send timely reminders and updates to your classroom.
Content and assignments are best housed on your Classwork tab.
To create a stream post, click “Share something with your class” and type in your message.
These icons let you upload something from your computer, or include something from your
Google Drive, YouTube, or a website link.
You can post your announcement to more than one class at a time by using the “For”
menu in the top-left.
This will bring up a list of your current classes, and you can select additional classes
if this announcement should be posted in those Streams as well.
By default, your announcement will be visible to all students in the class, but you can
use the drop down menu to deselect the entire class and choose just the students who need
to see this item.
If you click post, your announcement will appear in your students’ stream right away.
The drop down triangle to the right of the post button give you the ability to schedule
the release of the announcement for a later time or simply to save it as a draft only
visible to you if you want to add some additional info at a later time before you post it.
Your saved announcements appear at the top of your stream page, but are not visible to
students until you choose to post them.
(post it now).
When you post an announcement and attach an item from your Google Drive, the permissions
will automatically be adjusted to view-only to students in the class and editable by co-teachers.
You can always click on the document and adjust it’s sharing settings manually to override
this.
The schedule option is ideal if you want to release the announcement at a specific time
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Scheduled announcements remain in the Save Ann area, visible only to teachers, until
their automatic release time.
If you discover a typo or need to add more information to a released post, simply click
the More dots and select Edit.
Enter your changes and click Save.
That more options menu also lets you delete a post.
If you already created an announcement in previous or different class, you can use the
reuse post option.
Click the reuse post arrows.
A list of all current and Archived courses displays and when you select a course title
(Jonson library), all announcements in that class are listed.
Simply choose the announcement.
If you’re copying this post to a different class, and don’t want to link multiple classes
to the same attachments, check the Create new copies of all attachments box.
This creates new documents in the Drive folder of the class you are reusing this post in.
If it’s okay to link to the same item, you can uncheck it.
Click Reuse and you’ll be able to adjust any details if necessary and then post or
schedule that item for posting in your existing class or classes.
Students can post questions in the Stream and/or comment on teacher posts if you have
enabled that permission in your settings.
If you haven’t, only teachers of the class will have the ability to post and comment.
You can visit your classroom settings to adjust student Stream permission at any time.
The Google Classroom stream provides a quick and effective way to communicate with your
students.