User Settings
Feed Display Options
These options allow you to customise what posts you see when you open Evisense.
Default Group (Users and External Users only)
You can set Evisense to show you the group of pupils you work with most frequently. You will see the posts for this group when you open Evisense. You can choose either a registration group, teaching group or messaging group. Evisense will always reset to the default setting the next time you log in.
Default Post Types
Evisense has lots of different post types. Your school may use Evisense for Newsletters, Events etc., but this might not be relevant to show in your feed by default. You can choose what post types you want to see in the feed when Evisense opens. You can use the filter to view any post type, it will reset to the default setting the next time you open Evisense.
Display Curriculum (Not always used)
By default, Evisense will show the framework/curriculum when showing what skills the post is linked to. If the framework/curriculum is always the same or you know from the subject etc. what framework the post links to, it makes sense to turn off the curriculum as it is unnecessary information.
Automatically Expand Linked Assessments (Not always used)
When you link a post to skills in our assessment content, you can view the linked skills when viewing the feed. By default, you must click on the View Assessments icon to view the skills the post links to. By turning on this feature the assessment information will be automatically displayed in the feed.
This is a personal preference, if you regularly use the linked assessment information, it might make sense to automatically expand the assessment links to reduce the number of clicks and to make using them quicker.
Creating Post Options
These options are used when creating posts, it allows you to customise the experience to meet your needs.
Default Post Type
The Add New button is quick and easy to use, it makes sense that you can set the post you use the most as the default post type. Setting the default post type decides the action taken when you click Add New. You can always choose a different post type by using the down arrow next to Add New.
Default Post Privacy
Your school has set several options around privacy and post creation. The options available to you are limited by your school. You may not be able to change these values. You can always adjust the privacy when creating or editing a post.
For some post types it makes sense to share with parents by default, but other posts might be more relevant to school staff. Before you set defaults to share with parents, think about the relevance of the post to parents.
Notifications
These options are linked to keeping you up to date with what is going on in Evisense. Users are notified when someone likes a post they created, comments on a post they created or responds to a comment they added. If you are a parent, you will be notified any time you child is tagged in a post you have access to.
You will see notifications within Evisense, you will receive email notifications and if you use the Evisense app, you will also receive push notifications.
Email Notifications
By default, you will receive email notifications alongside the notifications within Evisense. If you do not want to receive the email notifications, turn this option off. If you don’t use the Evisense app, email notifications will keep you up to date with what is going on without having to open Evisense. If you use the app, you will receive push notifications on your device, you might prefer the push notifications instead of emails.
Notification Time Restrictions (Users and External Users only)
Schools can set notification rules to limit when school users and external users receive notifications. Outside of the specified days and hours, notifications via email and push notifications are silenced. You will see the notifications if you open Evisense. You can set your own custom notification rules that supersede the rules set by your school.
Additional Notifications (Users only)
As well as receiving notifications for someone liking or replying to a post or comment you created, you can also choose to be notified for other posts. You may want to be notified when someone adds a home school diary update for your class so that you can keep up to date with what is going on.
Setting up additional notifications is a really useful feature that keeps you up to date in the areas that are important to you. You might be the SENCO and want to keep up to date with the home school diaries for your SEN pupils. You might have children that work with a therapist and want to be notified of any learning opportunities the therapist has shared.
Blocked Users
Evisense has the ability to stop a user from seeing content from another user. Every user has the ability to block another user. This means they will no longer see that user’s posts or comments or replies from other users on the blocked user’s posts or comments. Users can also unblock a user they have blocked.