Post an announcement

Announcements are the organization’s official voice — posting is limited to people your school has designated (board members, the office, committee chairs for their areas). If that’s you, here’s the craft and the mechanics.

Post an announcement

1. Open Announcements and choose New announcement.
2. Write the headline and body. You can attach images, files, and links — if the announcement relates to an event or sign-up, link it so families can act in one tap.
3. Choose the audience: the whole school, or a narrower group (a single grade, a committee) when it only concerns them.
4. Post.

It appears in the feed immediately and notifies families according to each family’s own preferences.

How it reaches families

Worth understanding, because it explains “did everyone see it?”:

• Push — families with push enabled are notified right away.
• Digest — families on digest mode get it in their daily summary instead.
• Text message — if your school uses SMS and you mark the announcement urgent with SMS delivery, opted-in families also get a text with a link back to the app. Only urgent announcements can go out by text — the app enforces it.

Families control their own mix (see the parent-facing Choose what you get notified about) — so “posted” never means “everyone was pinged,” and that’s by design.

Use SMS like the siren it is

Text messages command attention and cost real money per send — which is exactly why the app restricts them to urgent announcements. “Pickup is moved, today” is urgent; “bake sale in three weeks” is not. If everything is marked urgent, families opt out of texts, and then the real emergency misses them too.

Editing and follow-ups

Spotted a typo or a wrong date after posting? Edit the announcement — the feed shows the corrected version. For material changes (event canceled), consider a fresh announcement instead: families who already read the original won’t reread it.