School notices and announcements

Notices are the signed-in broadcast channel. Each one carries a title, body, category, priority, an audience, an optional expiry, and either an immediate publish or a scheduled time. Visibility and notification are two separate resolutions of the same audience: who may open the notice in the feed, and who gets pinged when it goes live.

Fan-out on publish respects per-user preferences. A recipient who has turned off general notices receives neither the in-app item nor the email; one who has kept general notices but turned off email receives only the in-app item. Failed emails are recorded so a delivery problem is visible rather than silent.

Audience resolution

Who can post

• Staff and admin accounts, including Teacher and office Admin, may create and edit notices
• Students and parents can never create a notice, whatever role name they carry
• Managers see unpublished and expired notices; everyone else sees only published, unexpired notices matching their audience

Handoff

A published notice lands in two places at once: the notices feed, where it stays until it expires, and the notification bell, where it competes with fee reminders, absence alerts, and exam updates. For anything a family must act on, a notice is the announcement and the module event is the reminder - publish the exam timetable notice, but rely on the exam publish itself to put the schedule in front of them.

Limits

• Targeting is by role or class section. You cannot target one family, one bus route, or one committee
• Attachments are not part of a notice; link to a file in the school drive or a website download instead
• Editing a published notice does not re-notify, so a substantive correction is better sent as a new notice