This tool is available as part of the Campus Learning premium offering and is currently part of a Closed Beta testing period. Section Feeds are not available in all districts.

Location: Teaching Center > Click the speech bubble icon

A Section Feed is the collection of communications for a section. The feed consists of posts and their replies. Teachers can create posts and replies; students' communication options depend on the Section Feed Settings but may include posting, replying, and uploading attachments.

To view a section's feed, click the speech bubbles icon in the Teaching Center. A Section Feed side panel displays.

Screenshot highlighting the speech bubble icon and showing the Section Feed side panel.

The Section Feed allows a teacher to communicate with students and parents in a class.

There are no specific tool rights needed for teachers to access Section Feeds. The tool is either turned on for a district or not. For administrators, the Section Feed Administration tool rights in Instruction > Settings grants full access to that tool.

See the Instruction Tool Rights article for more information.

This article covers the following topics:

Enable Section Feeds

Once Section Feeds are enabled for a district, they are available for all teachers. However, for students and parents to see Section Feeds, the tool must also be enabled in Portal Display Options. These options are managed by school/district personnel, not by teachers.

Section Feeds can be enabled for students and parents separately. If Parent is enabled, an additional option controls whether parents can see comments from other students in the class and whether those students' names display with their comments.

Screenshot of the Portal Display Options tool with the Section Feeds options highlighted.

Section Feeds must be enabled in Portal Display Options to display in Campus Student and/or Campus Parent.

In Campus Student/Parent

	Once enabled, students and parents view the Section Feed by clicking the name of the course anywhere in Campus Student or Campus Parent. The Section Feed displays in the Classroom tab with the other course information.
In Campus Student or Parent, click the Course Name to view the Section Feed.

Create a Post

Click the button for a section in the Teaching Center.
Click New Post.
Enter the text of your post in the editor that displays. Use the options along the top of the editor to expand WYSIWYG options for formatting the text, including adding images and links.
To add this post to the feeds of multiple sections, click Add Section. The list of your sections displays, with included sections listed at the bottom. Note: adding sections will add this post to each section's feed, not create a multi-section feed where students in multiple sections can respond to each other.
Click Post when finished.

Screenshot highlighting the speech bubble icon and the New Post button and showing the editor where a new post is written.

Create a New Post to communicate with students in a section.

View Posts and Replies

When a Feed has new posts or replies, a red dot displays on the speech bubble icon in the Teaching Center. Click the icon to view the Feed. Replies display in the order they were submitted.

From this view, you can Reply to a post, Edit or Delete your own posts, or Pin a post so it always displays at the top of the Feed. Deleted posts and replies are maintained in the database.

Resolve a Flag

Two-part screenshot showing a flagged post and the options for resolving the flag.

Resolve flags by removing the flag or deleting the post/reply.

Inappropriate posts can be flagged by the teacher or by another student. Discussions with a flagged post are indicated by a and a Flagged lozenge.

To address the flag, click Resolve Flags. A side panel displays that shows who flagged the reply and the Reason it was flagged. From there, you can either Remove Flags to keep the reply or Delete Reply to remove it from the Feed. Deleted posts and replies are maintained in the database.

Section Feed Settings

Section Feed Settings determine how students can interact with the Section Feed as well as a display setting for your teacher view.

Settings apply to the whole feed. It's not possible to control student permissions on a post-by-post basis, such as allowing replies to one post but not another. However, the permissions can be turned on and off over the course of the term.

Student Posting Permissions

Create New Posts: students can create their own posts in the feed.
Reply to Existing Posts: students can reply to the teacher's posts or to other students.
Edit Posts and Replies: students can edit their own content
Delete Own Posts: students can delete their own posts

User Feed Display Settings

Show Deleted Posts/Replies: if enabled, allows the teacher to view their own posts/replies that they've deleted, and any student posts that have been deleted.

Screenshot of the Section Feed Settings side panel.

Click the gear icon in the Feed to view Settings.

Note: Deleted posts and replies are maintained in the database.

Section Feed Administration

Tool Search: Section Feed Administration

Section Feed Administration provides access to view and interact with all Feeds at the School.

The Section Feed Administration tool lists all sections for the School selected in the Campus Toolbar. For each section, the number of Posts/Replies and the number of Flagged Posts/Replies are shown. Use the filter fields at the top of the list to filter to a specific course or section.

Click View to view a section's Feed, participate in the conversation, and resolve flags.

Section Feed (Instruction)