Facebook Groups are a great resource for helping schools communicate with their students and parents. Unlike Facebook Pages, Facebook Groups can be made "private" so that a teacher (or group of teachers) can communicate with a specific group of students or parents associated with their school.

Schools commonly use Facebook Groups to create separate communication "spaces" for each year level. In other words, a middle school could set up a Facebook Group specifically for their Year 7 cohort and another one for their Year 8 cohort, and so on.

To link an existing Facebook Group with your School Facebook Page, please do the following:

1. Navigate to your school Facebook Page. Using a desktop browser, click on the pages icon (the flag symbol) to see a list of the pages that you manage. Select your school page from the list. Please note that you will need to be a page Admin for your school in order to complete this step.

2. Select "Groups". With your school page selected, click on the "Groups" tab. The "Groups" tab is usually visible on the horizontal navigation bar for your page. If it is not visible, click on the "More" tab to reveal additional options. Please note that the "Groups" tab may not be visible or accessible if your page is unpublished.

3. Select "Link Group". At this point, you can link an existing group to your page, or create a new one. Click on the button named "Link group" to link an existing group with your school page.

4. Select a group to link to your page. At this point, a list of groups you manage will be displayed. Click the Link button to link a group to your school Facebook page. Please note that you will not be able to link an existing group to your page unless you are a group administrator for that group.

5. View your linked groups. You can view any groups linked to your page at any time by viewing the Groups tab. Click on the name of the group to view more details about the group and to adjust the group's name, settings, members etc.