Daily Bulletins

[Skylark56]

Just curious as to what other people are using as a Daily Bulletin system for their schools? We currently have a member of staff who is assigned to a shared mailbox who posts as said bulletin mailbox at the end of each school day and members of staff email in with their bulletins. But this creates an awful lot of manual admin work and was wondering if people use something inherently easier to use, where staff could post themselves.

 

We did look at the Bulletins App through Teams but there isn't a clear cut way of organising bulletins for the day, just general bulletins. We would also rather not use external systems for us to manage (such as the Messages software I've seen on here before).

 

Just wondered what everyone else was using, if anybody was using a Power Automate/Teams deployment or something that would be easier to manage.

[simpsonj]

A Whole School Communications OneNote shared with all staff, seems to work pretty well.

[Oaktech]

One school we have a folder set up - mon-fri that people drop documents into for the day they want on the bulletin. This gets cleared day by day via a script and scheduled task run overnight. The Heads PA collates (copy-pastes) the content into a template, send it to the head, the head checks he's happy with it and send it out.

 

My other schools it's just not a thing - we just get a weekly diary digest from the staff meeting.

[RLR]

We have a google site that gets updated each day and a shortcut is put on all teachers desktops.

[DalekSec]

Teams seems best for this imo

[Skylark56]

Teams seems best for this imo

 

Yeah we did have a look into this as Microsoft do a sample Teams app for Bulletins through PowerApps. The issue we had was it only allows you to post bulletins, and not clear after the day was over.

 

Did also consider a separate Team with channels which staff can just post on, but we would have to either rename or recreate channels for each day of the week, every week, or we can't clear Teams messages for other users either, which is a shame.