Read and catch up on announcements
Where official school and parent-org news lives, how to catch up after a busy week, and how announcements differ from chat.
Announcements are the official channel: news from your parent organization and school that every family should see. Unlike chat, they’re one-way — a small set of designated people can post, and everyone else reads.
That design is the point. Your school’s announcements feed stays signal, not discussion — the discussion happens over in Messages.
Reading announcements
Open Announcements from the main menu. Newest first, unread ones marked. Each announcement can carry the full story — text, images, attached files, links to sign-ups or events. Attached files show as download links when you open the announcement.
You can react to an announcement (a quick ❤️ from the card, or hold the button for more emoji), but you can’t reply in the feed. On an announcement’s own page, See who reacted shows the names behind the counts. If an announcement raises a question, ask in the relevant channel or contact the person who posted.
Need it again later? Tap Save on an announcement — the permission slip you’ll deal with Sunday night, the date you’ll need in March. Saved announcements collect behind the Saved filter at the top of the feed.
Catching up
Life happens; announcements wait. The feed keeps everything, so after a hectic week you scroll until things look familiar. Unread markers make it easy to see where you left off. There’s no “mark all read” panic — reading one announcement doesn’t hide the others.
If you’d rather be nudged, announcements can reach you three ways — pick your mix in your notification settings:
- Push — a notification when something’s posted.
- Digest — announcements included in your daily summary.
- Text message — for schools that use SMS, urgent announcements also arrive as a text with a link back to the app. See Turn announcement texts on or off.