The Multi-Academy Trust Resources area is for sharing information with all the academies in the Trust.
Administrators on the Trust admins account can post news and upload documents or resources here, to be accessible for everyone across the Trust.
The shared resources area is linked to all boards, so all governors in Local Governing Boards can see the Resources area listed as an option on their sidebar.
Creating a News post
You can post an article on the News page by clicking on Write a new article.
This will open a new box for you to create the article in.
Sending the News out via email
You can also choose for the news article to go out as an email to everyone in the trust (All Subscribers) by using the dropdown menu in the bottom right corner.
Depending on the options you have set up on the admin site there may be other options available for emails, such as Chairs only, or Safeguarding governors only.
Anything that is posted in the News tab of the Resources area will also appear on the main News feed (the News icon in the sidebar) for everyone in the Trust Board and the Local Governing Boards.
Managing Compliance
The Compliance tab allows trusts to set up and monitor compliance across their accounts.
Setting up a trust-wide confirmation can be done from here, using the Edit Confirmations button.
From here, click the Add Confirmation button and enter the details in the box above. You can include links to documents if needed.
If your confirmation should be updated annually, you may wish to set the Annual Expiry toggle. This will automatically expire the confirmation at the end of the academic year (31 August), so that governors will need to re-confirm during the coming academic year from September onwards.
Click the Save button to save your confirmation. The confirmation will now appear for all governors in their profile page, as well as on the local board compliance tab too.
Sharing Resources
The Resources tab is for sharing documents among everyone in the Trust Board and Local Governing Boards. Members of the Trust admins account can upload, rename, and delete documents here, and members of the trust board and LGBs can read and download them.
To share a document in the Resources tab to a news article, you will need to:
Go to the Resources tab under the shared Resources area
Select the three dot menu next to the document you wish to share
Select Copy link to clipboard
You can then paste a link to the document in the news article.
Calendar
The Calendar tab pulls together all the events from the Trust Board and the Local Governing Boards and displays them in one place, for a full overview of what's happening in your organisation.
Trust admins are able to set up events from here, by clicking on the + button in the top-right corner.
Events can be set up here, and allocated to any of the linked boards. Once saved, the event will show in the resources calendar, and also on the board calendar itself.
Events are set an automatic colour-code to show which board they belong to. It's not possible to choose a particular colour for a board, they are allocated at random.
Larger MATs
As your MAT starts to grow, we can provide you with access to your database of governors and governing boards via the GovernorHub Admin site (admin.governorhub.com).
The Admin site provides a variety of functionality such as downloadable reports for the Trust and LGBs as a whole, and running database queries to search for specific governors and governing boards based on certain filters.
