The ‘staff only’ option offers you more control over which posts can be viewed by families and when. Some administrators prefer the ability to approve the activities staff are logging prior to them being shared with student contacts. This option can be especially helpful when first rolling out brightwheel. If toggling this setting ON, all new posts will be viewable by internal personnel only, until an administrator has approved them and all newly logged activities will default to ‘staff only’ as well.
When logging activities on the web, regardless of how this setting is configured, activities will not have the ‘staff only’ option checked by default. We strongly recommend advising your staff how to use this option if logging activities from their account on the web and in general to ensure they’re following your program’s procedures.