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What are the user types in the School Signals system?
What are the user types in the School Signals system?
Updated over 5 months ago

The School Signals has four different user types and additional admin rights per feature.

School Admins

School Admins are the platform's admins assigned by the school. You could add an administrator or a teacher to be a School Admin for the system. You can add as many School Admins as needed. School Admins are our contacts when we contact the school about system training and updates. The role of the School Admin is to:

  • Confirm new parent registrations

  • Manage student information, parent information and all user accounts

  • Confirm the school's classrooms and teachers

  • Confirm the School Feed's posting rights settings

  • Monitor the School Feed, significantly reported posts

  • Make posts to the School Feed

  • Schedule posts

  • Add attachments to a post

  • Pin a post

  • Edit and delete any post

  • Create Parent-Teacher conference listings

  • Maintain the School Calendar

  • Manage and add school documents and document folders

  • Create and manage online forms

  • Add School Events with RSVP

  • Add Volunteer opportunities

  • Create Photo Galleries

  • Access chat messages

  • Remove a member from a chat thread

  • Edit chat messages (leaves a record)

  • Assign feature-specific admins

  • Set email, text, and app push notifications

District Admins

District Admins are School Admins who can access multiple schools, create content, and manage accounts across the schools in their district. District Admins can create online form templates for the schools in the entire school district.

Teachers

Teachers have limited administrative rights to the features most relevant to them. If a teacher needs more rights, consider granting the teacher School Admin rights. In the system, teachers can:

  • Make posts to the School Feed, school-wide, and audience-specific feeds (such as classrooms)

  • Schedule posts

  • Add attachments to a post

  • Manage their class signup page of a parent-teacher conference

  • Add Volunteer opportunities

  • Add Groups

  • Add Events with RSVP

  • Associate online forms for an event, group, or volunteering opportunity

  • Add Photo Galleries and photos

  • Set email, text, and app push notifications

Parents

In the system, parents can:

  • Access the School Feed. Please note that parents' posting rights to the feed are dependent on the School Feed settings. By default, parents have the right to post to the School Feed. The rights may be granted for school-wide or class-level posts -or parents posting may be turned off if the feed's purpose is a one-way bulletin board.

  • Add Photo Galleries and photos (unless posting is turned off for the feed)

  • RSVP to events

  • Signup for volunteer opportunities

  • Join and apply to Groups

  • Fill online forms and have a record of filled forms

  • Access the school calendar

  • Access and download documents

  • Access School Directory

  • Manage profile visibility

  • Set email, text, and app push notifications

Feature Specific Admins

School admins and teachers can be additionally be set as feature-specific admins. For instance, they may act as Group Admins, Volunteer Admins, and Event Admins. In that case, they will be notified of user activity related to the group, volunteering, or event. Additionally, while School Admins can, by default, access and manage all content - giving teacher admin rights provides the teacher with full rights to edit and manage the particular listing.

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