The feed is a quick and easy way to update your Schoolzine website or school RSS Feed with your latest news. You can also populate this information straight into your newsletters side panel. If you would like to have the feed setup for your school, or would like more information on the capabilities of the feed, please contact Schoolzine.
Creating a Feed Item
- Log in to your Control Centre and select the Communicate menu tab.
- Once expanded, select Manage Feed.
- Type in the Title you would like to apply to your message.
Note: There is a 60 character limit for the title. - Add your content and apply any necessary text styling using the toolbar menu, this includes inserting any hyperlinks, documents or images.
- If your feed populates into your newsletters side panel, apply the relevant Tag.
Note: If the feed only populates onto your website, you will not need to apply a Tag. - Click Create to publish your Feed item.
Handy Hints
- We recommended not uploading files larger in size than 1 MB.
- Clean your text to ensure that your content displays correctly and any hidden characters or symbols are removed. To clean your text, paste it into a program such as Notepad or Wordpad.
- We recommended using a call to action for any files or URLs that you include in your message to avoid your content being missed! eg. “Click here to download” or “Click here to view”.
Adding a Document
- Upload the document by selecting the Content menu tab and going to Media Library.
Note: See the Media Library tutorial for more information.
- Select the text you would like your document linked to. Click on the Link button and select Link to Document. Click on the search button next to Page URL to display all documents you have in your account, then select the document you would like to link.
Adding an Image
- Click on the Image button, select Upload New and then choose the image that you want to insert.
Note: It is also possible to link an image that you have previously uploaded into your Schoolzine account.
Adding a URL
- Select the text you would like your URL linked to. Click on the Link button, select Link to Page and then paste in the required link to the Page URL field.
Editing a Feed Item
- Log in to your Control Centre and select the Communicate menu tab.
- Once expanded, select Manage Feed.
- Choose the feed item you wish to edit from the list by selecting the Edit details icon.
- Edit the content as required.
- Once you have saved the feed item, you will be able to view the changes.
Deleting a Feed Item
- Log in to your Control Centre and select the Communicate menu tab.
- Once expanded, select Manage Feed.
- Choose the feed item you wish to delete from the list by selecting the Delete icon, and confirm that you would like to delete it in the pop up prompt window.