Improve Your School News, Teacher Pages, and Emails

Getting Started

Here’s an overview of the available tools for building better posts and emails. Click here for more detailed instructions.

To compose an email, click the Communicate tab, then SmartSend.

To create a new School News or Teacher Page, click the Communicate tab, then School News or Teacher Pages, the Edit button, and finally the New Post button.

Format Your Fonts

Click the “A:” to access additional type formatting options, including fonts, size, subscript, superscript, and color. You can also insert code snippets.

Additional Features

Click the “+:” to insert tables, horizontal lines, emojis, and special characters, and upload files to insert into your post.

Undo and Redo

Make a mistake? No problem! Just click the Undo icon. Change your mind? Still not a problem. Just click the Redo icon.

Add Images

There are four ways to add images:

1. Drag and drop an image from your computer to anywhere on the post or email.
2. Click the picture icon, then click the gray box to navigate to where the image is stored on your computer.
3. Click the picture icon, then click the link icon to enter the image’s URL.
4. Click the picture icon, then click the image folder icon to select from saved images.

To resize an image, click on it and drag any of the blue squares or click the ruler icon in the pop-up window to enter a specific size. The pop-up window also includes other options, including alignment, adding a caption and a link. Clicking the heart icon adds the image to a library, making it easy to reuse later.

Tables

Tables are an excellent way to organize your content, and Gradelink provides several options to style them.

Create a New Table

Click “+:” and the insert table icon. Drag over the boxes to select the number of rows and columns you want. Rows and columns can also be added and deleted after the table has been created.

Here’s what a default table looks like with text in each cell. Column widths can be adjusted by clicking and dragging the column frame.

To add color to a cell, click in a cell or drag to select multiple cells, and click the Cell Properties icon in the pop-up window. In this example, the cells in the top row were selected to modify them all at once.

To color the cell, either enter a hex code for the color or click the square with the red diagonal line through it to select a color from the pallette. When you’re finished, click Save.

To modify the appearance of the entire table, click any cell in the table, then click the Table Properties icon.

From here, you can change the background color, border style, color, and width, and set the rows to alternate colors.