Our News feature is designed to enhance communication with parents and staff members. With automated mailing lists & flexible usage, you are able to send a documents securely, activities for parents to try at home, monthly newsletters, reminders, documents... the list goes on!
Access News:
More > News.
Here you will see draft newsletters from the user currently signed in, and all published newsletters across your setting.
Use the following filters to narrow down your search.
🌸Start date & end date: Enter a date range to look through a specific time period.
🌸Shared with: Select specific groups or rooms to show news that have been sent.
🌸All post: Automatically defaulted to 'all post', you are able to filter by published or draft.
Create News:
More > News > + Create.
Much like an email, you can create a communication by completing the following areas:
From: This will always show your nursery name on the left & the authors name to the right.
To Group: You are able to select rooms, groups or staff.
To individuals: You are able to select individual children and/or staff members.
Post title: This will be the title of your post (like a subject line of an email).
Content: You can create your own posts from scratch choosing fonts, text size & style, add tables, paragraphs and images. Similar to formatting a word document.
Attachments: You can add a range of attachments. Blossom supports the following file types: PDF, JPEG, PNG & the maximum file size is up to 25MB.
Save as draft: This will save your post as a draft to be completed at a later time. Drafts will only appear for the author signed in.
Publish: Clicking publish will send the post to all selected groups, rooms or individuals!
FAQs
Will all my parents receive the newsletter?
Children > Child > Contact. Here you will be able to see which contacts have access to receive news posts.
How do I give a parent permission to receive news?
Children > Child > Contact > Select Contact > Edit Pencil > Receives News Post’ > Select Toggle > Update Contact.
Can I create my own groups?
You can create your own groups by selecting multiple individuals of your choice. More > News > + Create > Select your Individuals.