Hide New Annoucement button in Google Classroom

[Kate Masterson (Staff)]

Would it be possible to add a feature to hide/disable the New announcement button at the top of the stream in Google Classroom?

We still want students to be able to add comments to a post when a teacher chooses, but would like to remove the option for them to post to the class on their own. 

Thank you for considering!

Kate

Kate Masterson
Assistant Director of Digital Security & Privacy
Carmel Clay Schools
Carmel, Indiana

[Jason Huang]

Hello Kate, 

Thank you for your question. 

Yes, Google Classroom natively supports a setting to allow teachers to decide whether students can create new announcement.

In the teacher's Class setting, there is a setting under Stream and classwork > Stream, by changing the setting to Students can only comment, the New announcement button will hide from students while the Add comment button remains. Students can only post comments while are not allowed to post new stream announcements.

I hope it works for you. 

Thank you.

-Jason Huang

Product Manager at xFanatical

[Kate Masterson (Staff)]

Thank you! Since there isn't a way to control this feature from the Google admin console, we are looking for a way to remove it for all students, without relying on teachers to go into each course to adjust the setting. 

[Jason Huang]

Thank you for sharing this suggestion with us. I've passed your feedback along to our team and will review it as part of our ongoing product planning.