Strong links to students, parents, staff and alumni build strong school communities, and much of that connection now happens on social media. Public schools, TAFEs and universities can also be subject to state records and freedom of information laws, and every school owes its students a duty of care. Brolly keeps the record quietly in the background, so your team can keep talking to the community.
Obligations vary by state, sector and the content involved. General information, not legal advice.
Schools and education departments that use Brolly
Recordkeeping, FOI and duty of care are separate responsibilities. One captured chronology can support each of them.
Public schools, TAFEs and universities can be subject to their state or territory records act, which reaches content created or received on official channels. Brolly keeps a defensible, organised record with metadata and digital checksums. Find your state’s legislation.
A parent, journalist or former student can request documents under FOI, GIPA or RTI, and that can include comments and content that was later edited or deleted. Search the archive and export a response-ready package in minutes.
If a conversation becomes heated or a welfare concern arrives by message, a reliable record helps the school act and show what it did. Pair moderation rules with the archive so harmful comments are hidden quickly while the record is kept.
This interface reconstruction uses fictional school data. It shows how an original post, its edited versions and the parent comments around it can be reviewed together.
An official school or campus account posts an update about a late start.
Bus and before-school care details are updated as the school confirms them.
Comms, records and the principal can inspect the captured chronology.
Captured posts and conversations from connected accounts
Harbour Ridge College
Harbour Ridge CollegeMany of the photographs, announcements and news about your school now appear online first. Graduations, camps, awards nights and school plays are enriched by the images, posts, comments and messages that go with them. You are creating your school’s history every day. With Brolly, that history becomes a permanent record your archivist can keep for future generations of students.
Once a post or comment is deleted from the platform it is gone, unless you were capturing in real time. Brolly records every post, comment, reply, reaction, edit and deletion on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, YouTube, LinkedIn and TikTok, including the details of the deletion itself, with direct messages where the platform API provides them.
Harbour Ridge College is closed Friday for building works.
Harbour Ridge College is closed Friday for building works. Buses will run a revised timetable.
Removed publicly after the closure ended. Kept with the deletion event.
Bullying is not likely to happen on your public channels, but parents and students do reach out through messages, comments and groups. Capturing those conversations as they happen can be an important part of the school’s response. Brolly Protect helps your team hide harmful comments under rules you set, so the page stays a safe place for the community while the archive keeps the evidence.
Tonight’s P&C meeting moves to 7 pm in the library.
Will after-school care still run?
Yes. After-school care hours are unchanged.
Kept in the archive with the rule, the action and the timestamp.
School and faculty pages multiply quickly. Central capture gives comms, records and the registrar a shared chronology without asking each campus to keep its own screenshots. Universities and TAFEs with an EDRMS can send records on to Content Manager.
A school does not need three separate evidence folders for the same public conversation.
Comms teamPost, reply and moderate as you do today. Brolly works quietly in the background and is there when you need it.
Records and FOISearch by keyword, date, account or author, review the chronology and export the package. No screenshots.
When a welfare concern, complaint or inquiry arrives, the record of what was said and what was done is already there.
Brolly Australasia Pty Ltd is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and CSA STAR registered, with practices aligned to the Australian ISM and the ASD Essential Eight. Your data is stored on AWS cloud servers located in Australia. Records are encrypted in transit and at rest, with complete audit trails.
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