Communication · Guide
Reactions and comments on posts
React to a notice or class update, write a comment, reply, and choose whether reactions and comments are on.
Every published notice, news item and class update has a bar underneath it. You can only react to or comment on posts you are allowed to see: a class update is open to that class's teachers, students and parents only.
React and comment
- Press the smiley button under a post and pick an emoji: thumbs up, heart, party, clap, thanks, laugh, wow or sad. You get one reaction per post. Pick a different emoji to change it, or press your own again to remove it. The emojis people used show next to the button with a count. Students and parents see the total (for example 3 reactions). Admins and teachers can press it to see who reacted with what, and filter the list by emoji.
- Press Comment to open the conversation. Write your message and press Post. Press Ctrl or Cmd with Enter to send faster.
- Press Reply under a comment to answer it. Replies sit directly under the comment they answer.
- Press Delete under your own comment to remove it. Its replies are removed with it.
For admins and class teachers
- Delete any comment on a post you manage.
- When you add or edit a post, notice, circular, homework or material, tick or untick Allow reactions and Allow comments. Switch one off and it disappears for everyone who reads the item: no reaction button when reactions are off, no comment button or conversation when comments are off. The existing ones stay saved.
- On an item where one is switched off you still see a quiet Turn on link under it, so you can bring it back without editing.
- Press Turn off comments at the bottom of a conversation to hide comments on that item. Press Turn on to open them again.