Announcements
Post notices for the whole school, a class, a section or staff only, star the urgent ones, and send them to parents.
Posting an announcement
Click Announcements in the left sidebar, or on the Dashboard. It opens the Communications Hub on the Announcements tab.
- 1Under Post New Announcement, enter a Title and pick the Date.
- 2Choose the Audience: the whole school, staff only, a whole class or one section.
- 3Under High Priority, choose Important / Starred for urgent notices, or leave it on Standard Notice.
- 4Type the Message.
- 5Tick Send to parents on WhatsApp to message the parents in that audience.
- 6Click Publish Announcement.
With WhatsApp connected, the message goes to each parent on its own. Until then, Announcement published shows a WhatsApp button for each family, e.g. 3 link ready, open each below. Tap each one to open that parent's chat with the message ready, then click Done. Brothers and sisters share one message. The wording comes from the announcement template, and every message is recorded in the Message Log.
The announcements list
Announcements are listed newest first with the date, title, message and audience; starred ones are marked as important. Search by title, message or audience. Use Copy to copy the text, for example to paste into your school's WhatsApp groups, or the bin to delete an announcement.
The newest announcements also appear under Recent Announcements on the Dashboard, and parents see announcements for their child's class in the Parent App.
The other Communications tabs
Send & Test Message, Message Templates and Message Log are covered in WhatsApp & Messages.