Use Notification categories to organise the school’s Notifications feed—for example, Meetings, Trips, Procedures or individual year groups.
Categories organise posts; they do not make them private. All app users can see Notifications feed posts. The push-alert recipient selection controls who receives an alert, not who can see the post.
In this guide
1. Add a Notification category
- From the main dashboard, open Communications → Notifications → Categories. In the Notifications screen’s left-hand menu, this is labelled Category.
- Click Add.
- Enter the name in Notification Category.
- Enter a Sort Order. Use the minimum and maximum order values shown on the form as a reference.
- Review the details and click Submit.
2. Choose the display order
Sort Order controls where the category appears across the top of the feed. Higher numbers appear before lower numbers—for example, a category with order 7 appears before one with order 6.
3. Use the category on a notification
When creating or editing a notification, choose the category from its Category dropdown.
See Send a Notification for the full publishing steps.