Now that your online class is set up in Google Classroom and your students are enrolled in their classes, you can begin using Google Classroom features to communicate with the students. One of the simplest forms of communicating with students within your class is to send announcements. Announcements in Google Classroom are similar to sending your class an e-mail. (In fact, when you create an announcement, students also receive an e-mail with the information.) For announcements, you can add files from your computer or Google Drive and add links to websites or YouTube videos. Students can even reply to your announcements directly from the classroom Stream. An announcement is a type of post that appears in the Stream and shares many features also found in the Question and Assignment posts. Using announcements in Google Classroom instead of sending e-mails also makes it easier to find announcements in the future and use them in other classes.

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