Teachers: Setting Up your Account and Classrooms

Guide for Teachers: Setting Up SchoolStatus Connect

Getting started in SchoolStatus Connect is easy! This article will help you prepare your classes, update settings, and get everything ready to go for a great year ahead!

Click on a topic to learn more!

• Configuring Your Class Settings
• Merging Rosters or Classrooms
• Graduating a Single Class on SchoolStatus Connect
• Restoring or Unarchiving Your Classroom

⚙️ Configuring Your Class Settings

As a School Staff member, you have full control of your class. It is up to you what access you would like parents to have. You can configure the settings for your class by clicking on Settings.

To access your Classroom Settings:

1. Click on the Classrooms tab on the left, then select your Classroom

2. Click the three dots (•••) on the Header

3. Click Settings

This will pull up basic information about your Classroom, as well as your Classroom settings.

🎛️ Settings Defined

⛙ Merging Rosters or Classrooms

With SchoolStatus Connect, you are able to merge Rosters or Classrooms that may have been synced from your SIS as separate rosters or classrooms, although they are one. This article will explain how you can merge your rosters.

If you are unable or do not have access to merge your classrooms, either your district has not allowed merging rosters, or you are not assigned as the teacher for any SIS-synced classrooms.

The permissions can be updated via the District Settings page. Please reach out to your District’s administrator should this be something you need access to. 

To Merge your Rosters:

1. Click Classrooms in the left-hand side Navigation Bar.
2. Click the 3 black dots.
3. Select Merge my Rosters.

4. Select which School you want to select classrooms or Rosters from.
5. Click Continue.

6. Check the boxes of the rosters you want to merge.
7. Click Continue.

8. Check the box to select the main classroom.
9. Click Continue.

10. Opt out of having your Classrooms archived if you want by unchecking the box
11. Click Merge Roster.

Important Notes: 

• When a classroom is archived, users from the classroom can no longer view announcements from this classroom in the newsfeed.
• A teacher cannot reuse an announcement from an archived classroom.
• You can unarchive classrooms once the merge is complete on the schools or classrooms page.

🎓 Graduating a Single Class on SchoolStatus Connect

Graduating from your class is very quick and easy. Please follow the steps below:

1. Click the 3 black dots on the class header

2. Click the Class Settings

3. Scroll down and click Graduate

The next screen would prompt you to add a message or announcement that would go to parents' inboxes or simply proceed without entering a message.

4. Depending on other communications you have shared, it might be a good opportunity to wrap up the class with a last message or share this link with parents about how to access the archived class.

5. Click Graduate

A pop-up window will appear where you need to enter your email address to ensure that you haven't tried to graduate from the class accidentally.

6. Enter your email address

7. Click Confirm 

 

After confirming your email and clicking on the Confirm button, you will see the archived class with an Archived Classroom banner on the top right. This is the same view that parents would see for their respective view of the classroom.

To visit your archived classroom please go into your profile settings from the left side navigation.

You're good to go! 🙌

🧑🏻‍🔧 Restoring or Unarchiving Your Classroom

Graduating a Classroom does not archive teacher, parent/guardian, or student profiles and accounts.

If you need to access or restore a previously graduated/archived classroom, please follow the steps below:

1. Click the drop-down arrow on the top right

2. Click the gear icon

3. Click Schools & Classes

4. Scroll down to Previous Classes, click the 3 black dots of the desired classroom you want to unarchive

5. Click Unarchive this class

 

A confirmation that the class has been unarchived will be displayed at the top!