The noticeboard is a great way to ensure conversations that happen in-between meetings are visible and recorded, it's also a great tool for tracking items for addition to future agendas or keeping up with training needs and messages from your local authority or trust.

Admins can create topics and add them to existing posts. This will help them categorise messages for board members to filter the noticeboard on future visits.

This is really handy for creating a list of generic filters that your team often comes looking for, such as 'Training' or 'SEND'.

To add a topic to a message, click on the three dot menu button on the post and choose Add/remove topic.

Click in the Update Topics for post box. You can either choose an existing topic from the dropdown options or type in the box to create a new topic.

To remove a topic from a post, click on the X next to the topic.

Select Save to save the topic to the post.

Saved topics will show above the post.

To filter noticeboard posts by topic, click on the Filter posts button in the upper right corner of the noticeboard.

Click in the Filter your noticeboard posts in the Filters section on the right-hand side.

This will open the full list of topics.

You can then select a topic from the list or type in the box to search for a specific topic.

The filtered posts will appear on the left-hand side.

To see the full list of topics available for your board, click on the Manage topics button.

You can then see all of the available topics and you can use the buttons to rename or delete a topic. You can also create new topics here using the Add Topic button.