A notice is a short announcement shown to every student enrolled in that class. Post one from the Notices tab: a title, the content, done.
What notices are for
Anything you'd otherwise put in a WhatsApp group and lose by the next morning:
- Postponements and cancellations — the most common use by far
- Exam and test dates
- Room or venue changes
- Fee reminders near the start of a month
- "Next week we start Unit 4, bring your calculator"
Unlike a WhatsApp message, a notice stays visible in the class. A student who joins the group late, or scrolled past it, still finds it.
Writing one that works
Put the answer in the title. Students read titles and skip bodies.
Class postponed to Sunday 7th tells them everything. Important notice tells
them nothing.
Lead with the change, explain after. The first line should say what's different. Reasons go below.
Include the date explicitly. "Next Saturday" is ambiguous when read on a
Sunday. Write Saturday 7 September.
A good notice:
Class postponed to Sunday 7 September
This Saturday's class (6 September) is postponed to Sunday 7 September, same time, same hall. Sorry for the short notice — the hall is unavailable. Sunday's session covers Unit 4 as planned.
Notices and cancelled sessions
Cancelling a session doesn't tell anyone. It updates the schedule, and a student who checks will see it — but most won't check.
So when you cancel: cancel the session and post a notice. Two steps, and the second is the one students actually see.
What notices don't do
They don't reach a student who has left the class, and they don't reach someone whose enrolment request is still pending — that person isn't enrolled yet.
For something one student needs to know — a missed payment, a question about their work — use messages instead. A notice about one student's fees, read by the whole class, is a bad look.
Keep them worth reading
Post rarely enough that a notice means something. A class with thirty notices, most of them routine, trains students to ignore the section — and then the one that matters gets missed too.