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The Newsfeed
The Newsfeed is your center's virtual bulletin board. Posting on the Newsfeed is an easy way of keeping parents and staff informed about what's going on at your center each day. A post lets you to write a short message and add pictures, videos or documents.
Creating a post
When writing a newsfeed post, you can choose who you would like the post to be written from. For example, you can choose:
Yourself (you cannot post as another member of staff)
A room or group
The center
Just click on your name at the top of the post to open up your options:
Next, add your recipients by selecting them from the recipients drop-down.
This is key if you want to share a photo with a specific child's parents, send a reminder about a trip to all the parents of one room, or share some photos of an event with the entire center. You can select as many recipients as you'd like.
You may notice that the name of a room appears twice - that's because you can select children and staff separately.
Send a post to checked-in children
You can also send a post to children who are currently checked in to the center. To do so, go to your Overview (the home icon in your sidebar) and click on the checkmark icon to see children that are currently checked in
Click Select all children → click Send in the black menu box → select Post
Now, all children currently checked into the center will be the selected recipients for that post.
Adding an attachment
On each post, you will find a Upload button. Here you can attach:
A picture (a photo, or a scanned drawing or painting, for example)
You can upload all major image file types to Famly, including .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .pdf etc.
Please note, .heic files are not supported and these will have to be converted to a supported file type locally. If you are using an Amazon tablet, you can go into your camera, swipe over the screen from the left to right and a camera and video will appear. On this screen if you look to the right side there is a small cog looking sign (settings) click on this then ‘Resolution and quality’. Find ‘Image Format’, and change the format from HEIF to JPEG.
The maximum image size is 200kb, with a maximum resolution of 2560 x 2560px
Videos
You can upload all major video file types to Famly, including .mov, .mp4, .avi etc.
Please note, audio files such as .wav or .mp3 are not supported
The maximum video file size is 1024mb
Documents
Multiple pictures, to create a photo gallery.
There's no file size limit on resolution, but images will be resized to fit within a 2560x2560 bounding box upon uploading
Famly saves a draft and stores it in the icon in the upper right corner of the post box, in case you get interrupted when writing a post. When you have time, go back and find the draft, finish your post and send it by pressing the Send button.
Bookmarking a post on the Newsfeed
It is possible to bookmark certain posts if you would like them to be easily accessible. This might be your favorite posts, or ones which you wish to view frequently.
You could, for example, request parents bookmark a post about a certain policy, to refer back to later.
To bookmark a post:
Tap on the ... in the top right-hand corner of the post
Select Bookmark from the menu
This post will now be bookmarked
Note that you can only bookmark items that appear in the My News version of your feed (see below). Newsfeed items exclusively on the center's feed cannot be bookmarked.
Bookmarks are all stored in the same place, at the top of your Newsfeed. Head to My News and select Bookmarks from the drop-down menu
Disable likes and comments
You can choose if you want to disable parents commenting on or liking your post. You do this by tapping on the ... next to the send button. These don't appear until you've written something in the text field.
Staff Permissions
If you wish to share certain posts with only a specific group, make sure your staff do not have the View all news feed posts permission enabled as part of their role. To check this:
Head to Menu → Settings (or go straight to settings from your sidebar if you're using a desktop computer)
Go to Staff → Roles and permissions
Go to the Communication and Events section
Make sure View all news feed posts is not checked
How names are shown on the Newsfeed
As an added layer of privacy, you can control how names are shown in the Newsfeed. To do so:
Head to your Settings
Select Communication, then Newsfeed
Find Privacy Setting
Here, you can choose how names should show on the newsfeed:
The full name of the parent/carer and the first name of the child
The first name of the parent/carer and the first name of the child
The first name of the parent/carer and no child information
Additionally, you can choose whether the child’s room is shown or not
Click Save changes
Downloading photos from the News feed
To toggle on photo downloads from your Newsfeed, head to your Settings and navigate to Communication. Click on Newsfeed and find the photo downloading section. By default, this feature is toggled off - so parents won't see the option to download any photos until it's switched on by a manger at your center.