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School-level feature — managed within your school portal at yourschool.deandesk.com.

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Video walkthrough

This walkthrough uses the real DeanDesk interface with the fictional Northstar Academy demo school and a calm, AI-generated English voice. Payments and outside services are not connected in the demo.
The Announcements tab is where you post updates for your whole class: schedule changes, reminders, and anything every student needs to see. Each announcement notifies enrolled students, and students can reply underneath it. Open your course and choose Announcements in the course menu.

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What you see

Announcements are listed newest first, with pinned announcements always at the top. Each card shows the title, who posted it, when, and the full message. Click a card to open the announcement and its responses.
You see Create Announcement and a three-dot menu on each card. As the course teacher you can edit or delete any announcement in your course, not only your own.

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Post an announcement

1

Start a new announcement

Click Create Announcement. The Create New Announcement dialog opens.
2

Write it

Enter a Title and the Content. Keep the title short and specific: students see it in their notifications and in the email subject line.
3

Pin it if needed

Turn on Pin this announcement to keep it at the top of the list. Pinned announcements show a Pinned label, and up to three of them also appear under Important Announcements on the course Overview.
4

Post it

Click Create. The announcement appears in the list right away.

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Who is notified

Posting notifies every actively enrolled student:
  • In-app notification in their notification feed on the web and mobile app.
  • Email to their address. For a child account that can’t receive email, the email goes to the parent with the child’s name in the subject.
  • Push notification on a signed-in mobile device with notifications turned on. See Push notifications.
Notifications go out as soon as you click Create. Check the title and content before you post.

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Read and answer responses

Open an announcement to see the full post and its Responses below it.
  1. Click Add Response.
  2. Write your reply and click Post Response.
Each response notifies the class: every actively enrolled student and the course teacher get an in-app notification and an email, except the person who wrote it. Use Back to Course to return to the course.
Responses work well for quick questions about one announcement. For ongoing or graded conversations, use the course Discussions tab. For real-time messages, use Chat.

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Edit, unpin, or delete

Click the three-dot menu on an announcement card, or next to the title on the announcement page.
  • Edit changes the title, content, or pin setting. Turn off Pin this announcement to unpin it, then click Update.
  • Delete permanently removes the announcement and all of its responses. You’ll be asked to confirm.
Editing an announcement does not send new notifications.

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Hide the tab

If your course doesn’t use announcements, you can hide the tab: click Edit Course and turn off Announcements under Course sidebar.