The Newsfeed is your setting's virtual bulletin board. It’s a simple and effective way to keep parents and staff informed about what’s happening in your nursery. You can post short messages and attach pictures, videos or documents to share updates, reminders or highlights from the day.

To get started, go to the Newsfeed and choose who you want to post as. Use the white box at the top of the screen to select:

Next, select your recipients. This step is key if you want to share something with a particular audience. For example, you might:

Click on the names to select as many recipients as you like.

Now you can write your post. When you’re ready, click Post and it will be published to the Newsfeed for your selected recipients to see.

Recipients can comment, like or react to posts by clicking Comment or hovering over Like.

You can also send a post to all children who are currently signed in. To do this:

This will select and send your post to all currently signed-in children.

You may notice a room name appears twice – this is because you can select children and staff separately.

Below the message area of your post, click the Media button to add attachments.

You can include:

Such as photos, drawings or scanned documents:

All common file types like MOV, MP4 and AVI are supported:

All common document files types are supported:

You can add links directly to a post, or you can hyperlink by highlighting a word or sentence and clicking the hyperlink button. When posting links to the Newsfeed, you’ll need to paste the full URL starting with https://. If you don’t include the full link, it may appear as plain text. Once posted, your link will become clickable.

You can attach an activity to your post to let recipients know exactly what the children have been up to. To do this:

The activity will be attached to your post so families or staff can view it alongside your message.

For more detailed guidance on using the Activity library, check out this article

To post a Famly Live session in the Newsfeed, visit our Famly live article for full guidance.

Famly automatically saves a draft of your post while you’re writing. You’ll find your saved drafts by clicking the icon in the top-right corner of the post box. You can return to your draft at any time, finish your message and click Send when you're ready.

To make changes to an existing post:

If you want recipients to be notified about the update, choose Update and notify recipients. They’ll receive an in-app message letting them know the post has been changed.

If there’s a post you’d like to refer back to later, you can bookmark it. This might be a post you need to check regularly, or one you’ve asked families to keep handy – such as a reminder about a new policy.

To bookmark a post:

You can remove a bookmark at any time.

To find your bookmarks, go to My News and select Bookmarks from the drop-down menu.

You can choose whether or not families can comment on your post. To do this:

This option appears once you’ve started typing your post.

If you’re posting something intended for a specific group only, check that staff roles don’t include the permission to view all Newsfeed posts. To review this:

To protect children’s privacy, you can control how names are shown in posts, likes and comments. To change these settings:

You can choose to display:

By default, photo downloads are turned off. To allow families to download photos:

Once enabled, parents will be able to download images posted in the Newsfeed.

To search for a specific Newsfeed post: