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.

1. From https://www.canva.com/projects, select Create a design.
2. 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.
3. When complete and project is renamed and saved, select Share and Download.
   Note: Image names may not include a special character.
4. Select PNG or JPG and download to the computer. This file can be uploaded into SMC.

Upload Banner in SMC

1. Navigate to the Academic Classroom or Community as a moderator.
2. Select the photo icon in the upper right corner of the banner.
3. Select Browse Files. 
4. Choose the file. File size must be less than 8mb and either .png, .jpg, .jpeg, or .webp.
5. A preview is provided. Select Apply. The page will refresh to view your new image.