A Feed That Knows What Your Counselor Shared With You
A counselor writes a post specifically for Year 12 students weighing university applications. It lands in the feed looking exactly like the canteen menu update — same card, same size, somewhere in a wall of announcements. The students it was written for scroll straight past it.
That's the problem this release fixes. The posts feed has been rebuilt around one idea: content your school deliberately aimed at you should be impossible to miss.
Three bands, one glance
The feed is now organized into priority bands, top to bottom:
- Shared with you — posts targeted at your role, your year level, or your class, each with a badge explaining why you're seeing it
- Recent and flagged — fresh posts and anything your school has flagged as important
- Everything else — the rest, newest first
When a counselor targets a post at Year 12, every Year 12 student sees it at the top of their feed with a "Shared with you" badge. The signal finally matches the intent.
Targeted posts rise to the top with a badge explaining why you're seeing them.
Save what matters, dismiss what doesn't
Two one-click actions now live on every post:
- Save — keep a post for later; a Saved view collects everything in one place
- Dismiss — clear a post from your feed, permanently, with an undo if you misclick
Dismiss sounds small. It isn't — until now, an irrelevant post simply could not be cleared, and every scroll re-ran the same mental filter. Now the feed gets cleaner the more you use it. A segmented control switches between All / Shared with you / Saved.
One more detail we think matters: what a student saves or dismisses is private to them. Staff can't see it. Triage is a personal tool, not a monitoring feature.
For staff: better authoring, wider reach
On the staff side, post authoring keeps pace: create, edit, duplicate, and manage posts with cover images and draft/published states, then target each post to exactly the audience it's for — the whole organization, specific roles, year levels, or individual classes. Posts marked public even get a shareable page that works without a login, so key announcements can reach parents who haven't signed in yet.
Staff target posts to roles, year levels, or specific classes — and the feed honors it.
Also new: a sidebar that reads like a map
Alongside the feed, the app sidebar now groups navigation into labeled sections — Engage, Communicate, Manage, Discover, Tools, Report, Administer — instead of one long list. Nothing moved behind new permissions; related destinations just sit together, so the eighteenth menu item is as findable as the first.
Key takeaways:
- The posts feed now leads with content targeted at you, badge included
- One-click save and dismiss — with dismissals that finally stick
- Student triage choices stay private to the student
- Staff can target posts by role, year level, or class, and publish public posts
- Sidebar navigation is grouped into labeled sections for every role
Ready to make announcements students actually see? Request a demo and watch a targeted post land at the top of the right student's feed.