Community feed
The community feed is your academy's own social feed, built into the mobile app. Members post training updates and photos, and everyone else in the academy can like and comment. It's different from Announcements, which are the one-way, official messages you send out — the feed is the conversation among your members; announcements are the notice board.
Members post, like, and comment
Right from their phone — staff and students alike.
Moderate from the dashboard
See every post, approve what's pending, and follow up on reports — all from the Feed page.
Turn on post approval
Review student posts before the rest of the academy sees them.
Remove anything that shouldn't be there
Delete a post or a comment in a couple of clicks.
What members do in the app
Any active member of your academy can post — owners, admins, instructors, and students alike, all from the mobile app's Community tab. A post is a short caption and, if the member wants, one photo. From there, anyone in the academy can like it, leave a comment, or reply to a comment.
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Posting works the same for you as it does for your members: open the mobile app's Community tab and post there. The web dashboard's job is reviewing and moderating what's already been posted, not writing new posts.
The feed opens up as soon as a member's status turns Active — see Member statuses for what Pending and Inactive mean along the way.
What you see and moderate from the dashboard
Everything you need to review lives on the Feed page, under Engagement in your dashboard sidebar — three tabs: Published, Pending Review, and Reports.
Check the Feed page for what's new
TrainOS doesn't notify you when someone posts, comments, likes, or reports something. The Feed page is where you find out.
Turn on post approval
Go to Settings, open the Community section, and turn on Require post approval. New academies start with this on.
Staff posts — from owners, admins, and instructors — publish the instant they're posted, whether the toggle is on or off. Turn the toggle on and a student's post takes one extra step first:
Approve or reject from the Feed page's Pending Review tab. Staff posts skip this line entirely.
Turning the toggle off only changes what happens to new posts from here on — anything already published or already waiting stays exactly where it is.
See Academy settings for the setting's full details.
Remove a post or comment
Deleting a post also removes every comment and like on it, and cannot be undone.
Exactly who can delete whatOwners and admins can remove anything. Everyone can remove their own.
Handle a reported post
Members can report a post they think breaks the rules. Check the Reports tab on the Feed page to see what's come in — owners and admins can Dismiss the report or Delete Post from there.
Blocking someone directly in the app hides that person's posts and comments from the blocker's own feed only, and it automatically adds a report for you to see.
A member's own privacy setting narrows the feed a little further: if their profile is set to Private, other members won't see their posts, though staff always can. See Members & profiles for how profile visibility works.
When a member leaves
If someone who posted or commented later leaves your academy, their name is replaced automatically — but not the same way everywhere. In the mobile app, where your members actually read the feed, their name becomes plain Member. On the web dashboard's Feed page, the same posts show Former Member instead.
Who's allowed to do what
| Feature | Owner | Admin | Instructor | Student |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Post in the feed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Approve or reject a post | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
| Delete someone else's post | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
| Delete their own post or comment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Delete someone else's comment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Dismiss a report or change the approval setting | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
Instructors work from the mobile app
Only owners and admins can sign in on the web dashboard. Instructors post and delete comments from the mobile app, the same as any member — but approving posts, deleting someone else's post, and the Feed page itself are for owners and admins only.
See also
- Announcements — official, one-way messages you send to everyone
- Members & profiles — manage your roster
- Member statuses — what Pending and Inactive mean
- Academy settings — turn post approval on or off