News

Posts written on the site or pulled from an outside source. News appears in three places.

News terrace

A terrace on Terraced pages showing a band of recent posts.

Turned on from the Terrace Menu.
Current-page/parent toggle: shows the current page's posts, with a second tab for the parent page's posts (for example, a school page with a District News tab). Defaults to the current page, or to the parent when the current page has no posts of its own.
The terrace's pencil (Edit Terrace) menu holds Add News Post, Move Up, Move Down, and Turn Off News Terrace.

SchoolFeed News Block

A block on Grid pages with a News / Events toggle, so one block shows both a page's posts and its events.

A site-wide pop-out panel showing news and events (a News / Events toggle; the header banner also lists Files and Media).

Turned on with the Display SchoolFeed Widget setting: off, everyone, or admins only.

All three draw from the same news. One post can appear in more than one.

Writing a post

Open the Add New Content editor (the terrace's pencil menu → Add News Post, or the + (Add New Post) button on a SchoolFeed News Block). The editor has:

Add a Title (required) and a rich-text body, with Edit in Markdown (advanced) for raw Markdown.
Image, Locale, and Link buttons.
Content Targets — the Primary Location (current page) and Add Secondary Pages to also show the post elsewhere.
Connect to Facebook — also post to a connected Facebook Page.
Published — on by default; turn off to save without publishing.
Post to save. Posts written on the site appear immediately.

Pulling from a source

Terraced page: + (lower-left admin menu) → Manage Content Sources. Grid page: click the gear (Manage Sources) on the SchoolFeed News Block.
Add New Source → choose Facebook, RSS, or ParentSquare.
On the Add New … Feed form, enter the source URL, set Content Targets, and click Go.
Terraced page: turn on the News terrace from the Terrace Menu if it isn't already on.

Source requirements:

Facebook — public Page only (no personal profiles or groups). In the Page's settings, Age Restrictions and Country Restrictions must both be No Restrictions.
RSS — a publicly reachable .rss/.xml feed. Images appear only if the feed includes them.
ParentSquare — your school's or district's ParentSquare address (converted to its RSS-widget feed automatically).

Refresh

Sources refresh about once an hour, on their own clock (a source created at 2:12 refreshes around 3:12, 4:12, and so on).
Edits and deletions at the source are reflected on the next refresh.
To update now: open the source in Manage Content Sources and click Refresh Feed.
A source with a problem shows a warning triangle in the feed list and a red "Oops, there was an error!" notice with View full error when opened.
One feed per source; the same feed can't be added twice.

A post is attached to the page it was created on (its Primary Location). A news area shows posts from that page, from pages beneath it, and from pages a post is shared to. To show a post on an unrelated page, add that page under Add Secondary Pages. See Sharing content to other pages.

FAQ

I posted news but can't find it. It's on its Primary Location — the page you were on when you saved — plus any Secondary Pages you added. Sibling pages don't show each other's posts unless shared.
My school's News terrace shows the district's news. The terrace falls back to the parent page when the current page has no posts of its own. Add posts to your page, or use the toggle to switch tabs.
How fast do posts appear? Posts written on the site appear immediately; pulled sources update about hourly, or use Refresh Feed.
Can I pull from a Facebook group or personal profile? No — only public Facebook Pages.

Last updated: May 2026.