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Your academy is more than a one-time content library. The Newsfeed turns it into a place students come back to: a posting surface where you broadcast announcements (a new course is live, a call is happening Thursday, a win worth celebrating) and your students read them the moment they sign in. Posts carry your name and avatar, show a timestamp, and can be targeted to everyone or to a specific slice of your audience. The feed is off by default for every academy. You turn it on when you are ready, and it stays branded as yours.

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What students get

When the feed is on, your students see a Feed tab inside the academy and a “Latest” preview on their dashboard. Each post shows:
  • The author identity (your name and avatar, or the academy name if the authoring profile was removed)
  • A relative timestamp (“3d ago”, then a full date for older posts)
  • Your post body, rendered with the same rich content blocks as your lessons (text, images, video, embeds, link previews, files, callouts)
  • Pinned posts highlighted and floated to the top of the stream
Posts are members-only. A signed-out visitor sees the feed frame with an invite to create a free account rather than the posts themselves.
The feed is white-label. Students see your branding throughout, never Fayne’s.

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Turning the feed on

Open Feed in your owner navigation. Before the feed is enabled you land on a zero state that explains the value, with a single Enable Feed button. Click it and the feed switches on in announcements mode, ready for your first post. Once it is on, a settings control (the gear icon in the top corner of the Feed page) lets you adjust how reactive the feed is or turn it off again.

Off

No feed. Students never see an announcements surface. This is the default.

Announcements

You post updates; students read them. A one-way broadcast.

Announcements + reactions

Students can react to your posts with emoji. Still no replies.
In the settings popover you toggle Reactions on or off, and Turn off feed hides it from students. Turning the feed off keeps all your posts: they reappear if you turn it back on.
Treat the feed as low-frequency, high-signal. A one-way broadcast channel (no replies) is a deliberate, proven pattern, not a limitation. Post the things worth a return visit.

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Composing a post

At the top of the Feed page is a composer styled like a social post box (“Share an announcement…”). Click it to open the editor.
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Write your post

Add an optional title, then write the body using the same block editor as your lessons: rich text, image and video uploads, external embeds (YouTube, Vimeo, Loom), link preview cards, file attachments, callouts, and CTAs.
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Choose your audience

Use the audience pill next to your avatar to send to Everyone or to a specific List or Segment. Member counts load as you browse the picker.
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Post or schedule

Click Post to publish immediately, or use the schedule control (calendar icon) to pick a future date and time, then click Schedule. Scheduled posts publish automatically when their time arrives.
Published posts appear instantly in your feed management list and on your students’ dashboards.

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Targeting by audience

Not every announcement is for everyone. The composer’s audience picker reuses your existing audience tools, so you can aim a post at the right people:
  • Everyone sends to all members. It is evergreen, so students who join later also see it.
  • A List targets a static group you maintain by hand.
  • A Segment targets a dynamic group defined by rules (for example, students enrolled in a particular course).
Targeted posts are resolved at the moment you publish: the post reaches whoever qualified at that point in time, which is the right behavior for a point-in-time announcement. To reach a different group, post again.
Lists and segments are the same building blocks you use elsewhere in the academy. See Audiences for how to create and manage them.

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Pinning and managing posts

Each post in your management list has a menu with Pin to top and Delete.
  • Pin floats a post above the rest of the stream and gives it a subtle highlight, for both you and your students. Use it for the one thing you most want seen.
  • Delete removes the post; students will no longer see it, and the action cannot be undone.
Your feed list also shows each post’s status (Published, Scheduled, or Draft) and when it was posted or is due.

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Emoji reactions

When the feed is in Announcements + reactions mode, students can react to your posts with a fixed set of emoji. Reactions are a low-effort engagement signal that does not open the door to replies or moderation work.
Students tap an emoji to react and tap again to undo. Aggregate counts are visible to everyone, following the broadcast-channel pattern.
On each post you see the per-emoji breakdown. Hover a reaction to preview who reacted, or open it to scroll the full list of reactors by name.
Flip the Reactions toggle in the feed settings popover. The feed drops back to a plain one-way announcements stream and existing reactions stop showing.

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Why it matters

The Newsfeed is a re-engagement channel. Instead of your updates scattering across email, Slack, and WhatsApp, your academy becomes the place your audience checks for what is new. That is a reason to return, and every return is a chance to pull a student back into the learning. To see the surfaces from the learner’s side, read about the Student Experience.