An important first step in creating a positive SchoolStatus Connect experience for all staff and family users is to ensure that your school and classroom settings are properly configured. This Article will cover everything you can customize in your classroom and school settings.
How to update your School Settings
How to update your Classroom Settings
How to update your School Settings
As a school staff, you have access to configure appropriate settings for your school page and manage both teachers' and guardians' accessibility.
(1) Navigate to your school by clicking Schools, then selecting your school from the list.
(2) Hover over the School header image, and click the 3 black dots, then select Settings
- Associated Grades
- Their Own Classrooms (Recommended)
Select for whom you’d like guardians to be able to initiate conversations:
- With Any Other Parent In School
- With No Other Parents (Recommended)
- Let Teachers Set In Their Classrooms
When creating announcements, teachers can send Announcements using any of the following enhancements. As a School Leader, you can select which announcement enhancements you’d like teachers to have access to or not.
- Allow teachers to send Priority Announcements (Read More Here)
- Allow teachers to send Voice Broadcasts (Read More Here)
- Allow Teachers to send announcements to Students (Read More Here)
- Allow teachers to send Public Broadcasts (Read More Here)
- Hide classroom directories from guardians (Read More Here)
Enable or disable the settings by selecting or deselecting the checkbox, then clicking Update School at the bottom of the page.
For schools who are syncing their data with either Clever, ClassLink, or OneRoster, you can select to allow teachers to also create manual classrooms in addition to the classrooms created by your data sync. This option is great for teachers who sponsor after-school clubs, etc. for which automated rosters are not created by your SIS.
School Color and Themes
School Leaders can also update their page branding here. Learn More About School Themes and Colors.
How to update your Classroom Settings
As a Classroom Teacher, you have access to configure appropriate settings for your classroom pages. Classroom settings must be adjusted for each classroom you own.
Note: that some of these settings may be overwritten by your school leaders’ preferences.
(1) Click the drop-down button next to Home on the Middle part of your SS Connect page
(2) Choose your school
(3) Click Settings from the ellipses on the Class header
Allow Parents to Create Activities and Announcements
This will allow guardians to post and send announcements and events that can be seen by all other guardians in the classroom.
Allow Parents to Comment and Add Reactions to Announcements
This will allow guardians to post comments and reactions that can be seen by all other guardians in the classroom.
Allow Parents to Upload Photos and Files
This will allow guardians to add photos or files in the form of Announcements or Comments (unless turned off in the above settings), Direct Conversations, and Student Backpacks.
Allow Parents to Start Conversations With Other Parents
This will allow guardians to begin a direct conversation with other guardians in the classroom. *This setting can be overwritten by the School Leader inside the School Page Settings.
Show the Classroom Directory to Parents
This will allow guardians to see the list of other guardians that are part of the classroom within the Classroom Directory. *This setting can be overwritten by the School Leader inside the School Page Settings.
Teachers can opt to integrate their associated Google Classroom and take advantage of some of our Google Classroom features. Learn More Here.
Once your settings are configured properly, select Update Class.
Note: Teachers will need to update the settings for each classroom they own.
If a classroom is no longer being used, a teacher can click Graduate to archive the class.
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