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Announcement feature - to be able to schedule this in advance to post on a certain day/time so announcements ready to go for 2 weeks out

Most teachers plan for instruction a couple weeks at a time. Being able to set the ANNOUNCEMENT feature to be "scheduled" to post in the thread at a certain date/time would be HUGE improvement to teacher workflow. I want my students to see the ANNOUNCEMENT for the day with all instructions and then my scheduled assignments fall in line below the ANNOUNCEMENT for the day. Not being able to schedule this in advance to post each day of the week and to have things all set up for 1-2 weeks at a time is a HUGE break in normal teacher workflow when planning for instruction. Thank you so much for looking into this feature request to be able to schedule ANNOUNCEMENTS in the same way we can schedule assignments for a future date/time.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature would allow me to be more organized in the morning. I could organize my day the afternoon before, instead of having to rush around creating 4-5 announcemnets for my class in the morning. This is a necessary feature for a teacher.

  • Phoebe commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be so useful! Google Classroom has this feature and if I want the rest of the staff in my school to move to Teams, little things like this really help in winning them over.

  • Rox commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree! It would be nice to be able to schedule our announcements. We are able to schedule our assignments, but we can't schedule a time to post an announcements and it is through our announcements that we really do our daily communication with our students & upload files that pertain to that day. We post our daily assignments through our announcements and we cannot do it before or else the students will have a lot of questions because sometimes the info. have not yet been presented. It would be very helpful scheduling a lot of our posts. This feature is very necessary.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be very helpful, especially when in the morning if you want to post something with a video attached it can take a long time for the video to attach. Therefore this could be done the night before and sent out for the morning, or the week before etc.

  • Jen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    What you can do is take the email link and use Boomerang and schedule an email to send to the Team in the future.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes! This would be so helpful. That way I can set my daily agendas to post ahead of time.

  • Teresa commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have been staying up until midnight to make my announcements go out first thing in the morning because some of my students get up before I do and get to work. Please make announcements able to be scheduled!

  • Donna Montgomery commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be awesome!! Right now I am working on the information that will be posted in each of my classes in two days. I do not want to post it now because as soon as it is posted, I will start receiving emails if there are questions. Plus I need everything linked in that post to be ready (Edpuzzle videos, other presentations, our district grade book etc.). I have the post ready to go and can hit Send that morning. But it would be so much easier if I could have it scheduled. Particularly during this time of remote learning! I have so many little things I need to do that would be one less thing to think about.

  • Shannon King commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In my physical classroom I always write the next morning's important information on the board before leaving for the day. It would be SOOO helpful have this ability to schedule an announcement ahead of time so I can do the same thing in my digital classroom.

  • Tim McElroy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    A critical functionality that is missing! This should have been a basic feature from the beginning.

  • Tracey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    So many posts can get lost. If I could set the announcement ahead so that it posted when needed that would be extremely helpful!

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