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Give School Admins and Teachers/Non-Rostered Staff the Ability to Manually Add Data
Give School Admins and Teachers/Non-Rostered Staff the Ability to Manually Add Data

Learn how district administrators can have flexibility in what data their staff can manually add to their accounts -- in one easy step!

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Written by Emma Berry
Updated over a week ago

District Administrators have the ability to customize what data school admins and teachers/non-rostered staff can manually manage in their TalkingPoints accounts. Click on "Schools" in the left hand panel to see an overview of all of the schools in your district. From this page, you can use the three dots under "Action" to see each school's details, access that school's page or disable the school if necessary.

You can view and adjust your settings by navigating to the "Schools" view, clicking on "Permissions" and using the columns of checkboxes.

Here is a quick overview of the different columns:

  1. School Admins Can Add Data:

    • keep off if you only want students and contacts from your SIS

    • turn on if you want your admins to be able to add students + families from outside of your SIS (such as students who are preparing to enroll in that school)

  2. School Admins Can Delete Data:

    • keep off if you do not want individual school admins to have the ability to delete manually added data.

    • turn on if you want individual school admins to be able to delete manually added data from their school sites.

  3. School Admins Allow Staff to Add Students and Contacts:

    • keep off if you do not want individual school admins to have the ability to choose if staff can add any manually added data.

    • turn on if you want individual school admins to be able to allow staff members to add manually added data.

  4. Teachers can add students manually:

    • keep off if you only want teachers and non-rostered staff to be able to message students from their rosters

    • turn on if you want your teachers and non-rostered staff to be able to add students + families (such as students on a club or team they support; you could also consider option 1 in this article)

  5. Teachers can add contacts manually:

    • keep off if you only want contacts from your SIS to be messaged via TalkingPoints

    • turn on if you want your teachers and non-rostered staff to have the ability to add additional contacts for each student (such as a student's phone number if they're over 13 or another guardian)

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