The room feed is a great way to see the overall activity history of that specific room. The feed comprises all of the activities for each student assigned to that room starting at the time they were added to the room. Activities posted to the student's feed before they were assigned to a specific room will not display in the room feed.
Understanding Staff Only Posts
Brightwheel allows schools to enable staff-only posts so that activities being posted to a student's feed can be approved by a school administrator before being shared with student contacts.
What it means: Only internal personnel can view the post, posts are not sent to parents, and posts will not appear when parents are viewing their student's Feed
Why it's useful: Great for assessments, observations, and private communication amongst staff members about student learning and behaviors. Additionally, it gives admins control over what student contacts see.
Admin Approval feature: Great way to enable admin approval of posts for programs that desire this functionality. When a post is marked as Staff Only, the admin can simply later remove this designation to publish items to a student's feed.
Additional Callouts
If a post is marked as Staff Only and then approved by an admin to be visible to student contacts, and the student contact has push notifications for the activity enabled - they will receive a notification when the activity is made visible. The activity will also be visible on the student's Feed as normal.
Once enabled, all newly logged activities will default to 'staff only'. However, this setting does not limit staff's ability to uncheck the 'staff only' box when they're logging individual activities. We suggest advising your staff accordingly if/when this box should be unchecked
Review and Approve Staff Only Posts
Log into the brightwheel on the web app
Click to open the My School menu option and select Rooms
Select the desired room from the Room List
Jump to the Feed tab
Slide the toggle switch from All to Staff Only
Check the box next to all the posts you would like to approve or click Select All
Click the ✔️ Approve button to have these activities display on the student feed's and be visible to the connected student contacts
Edit or Delete an Activity
You can edit or delete actions or activities that have been posted to a student's feed from the web or mobile app. Learning Observations are the only activity requiring editing on the mobile app. At this time, edit options are limited to the date, staff-only checkbox, and any notes. Please see the steps in the Log Activities and Actions help center article for specifics on how to perform these processes.
Changing Room Assignments
The room feed is comprised of all the activities for each student from the time that they were assigned to that room.
Added to a New Room: If a new room is created or a student is added to a different room, the student's historical activities will not be displayed in the new room's feed. Only new activities will be added to the room feed.
Removed From Room: When a student is removed from a room, none of their historical activities that were previously associated with that room will display in the room feed.
Renaming a Room: Renaming a room will keep the room feed entirely intact. There will be no impact on the feed.