The community banner is a great way to engage students and create a community atmosphere. The only requirements are that images must be in photo formats (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .webp) and may not be greater than 8mb.
Objective: Learn to customize your Academic Classroom and Community and SMC.
How-To Guide
Teachers can use a variety of tools to customize their banners. If users have access to Canva, the following directions will provide an easy template to use and customize.
Note: Each user or school is responsible for creating their own Canva account. Canva is a popular tool for quickly creating school media, but this is just one example among many available options.
- From https://www.canva.com/projects, select Create a design.
- Type Google Classroom Header and select to open a new tab.
- This pre-made Canva template works well with the banner requirements and has some pre-made samples based on users permission and subscription level.
- From here, users can create from scratch, or search a variety of templates.
- When complete and project is renamed and saved, select Share and Download.
Note: Image names may not include a special character. - Select PNG or JPG and download to the computer. This file can be uploaded into SMC.
Upload Banner in SMC
- Navigate to the Academic Classroom or Community as a moderator.
- Select the photo icon in the upper right corner of the banner.
- Select Browse Files.
- Choose the file. File size must be less than 8mb and either .png, .jpg, .jpeg, or .webp.
- A preview is provided. Select Apply. The page will refresh to view your new image.
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