Teacher level permissions give access to individual data within the TalkingPoints platform. The teacher level experience includes permissions that are considered core functionality 🔒 (lock emoji) and cannot be turned on / off. Read below to learn more about teacher level permissions and their definitions.
Teacher Level Permissions
| Access to messages | Inclusive of all permissions below | 
| View all messages exchanged with students/contacts |  🔒 Core functionality, all teacher-level users have the ability to view all direct messages and announcements exchanged with students/contacts they have access to. | 
| Send direct messages to students/contacts |  🔒 Core functionality, all teacher-level users have the ability to send direct messages to students/contacts the user has been assigned. | 
| Send announcements to classes/groups |  🔒 Core functionality, all teacher-level users have the ability to send announcements to all assigned classes or groups. | 
| Schedule messages and recurring messages |  🔒 Core functionality, all teacher-level users have the ability to schedule messages and set up recurring messages. | 
| Set up auto-replies |  🔒 Core functionality, all teacher-level users can set up auto-replies. | 
| Download message history |  🔒 Core functionality, all teacher-level users have the ability to download message history exchanged with students/contacts. | 
| Student management | Inclusive of all permissions below | 
| View students in assigned classes/groups |  🔒 Core functionality, all teacher-level users have the ability to view students assigned to them. | 
| Edit student information | Ability to set the home language for confirmed students aged 13 years old or older as part of student messaging or edit student information for manually added students. | 
| Edit contact information | Ability to set the home language for contacts or edit contact information for manually added contacts. | 
| Group management | Inclusive of all permissions below | 
| View all groups |  🔒 Core functionality, all teacher-level users have the ability to view all groups assigned to, or created by them. | 
| Create and manage teacher groups |  🔒 Core functionality, all teacher-level users have the ability to create and manage personal teacher groups from students assigned to them. | 
| Class management | Inclusive of all permissions below | 
| View all assigned classes |  🔒 Core functionality, all teacher-level users have the ability to view all classes assigned to them. | 
| Staff member are automatically assigned to classes in their roster |  🔒 Core functionality, teacher-level users are automatically rostered to all classes they have been assigned in the school’s roster data. | 
| Analytics | Inclusive of all permissions below | 
| View teacher analytics |  🔒 Core functionality, all teacher-level users can view their personal engagement and statistics analytics (language breakdown, ELL status, valid/invalid numbers, device type). | 
| Download teacher analytics |  🔒 Core functionality, all teacher-level users can download their personal analytics reports. | 
