The topics below describe how to set permissions for teacher accounts, such as whether teachers can post discussions, schedule online meetings, and what options display on their navigation menus.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Customize Navigation Menus for Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff Portals
• Allow Teachers to Schedule Online Meetings
• Customize Teachers' Directory Permissions
• Allow Teachers to Post Discussions
• Choose Which Student Demographics are Visible to Teachers
• Customize the Students Tab in Teacher Portals
• Allow Teachers to Show/Hide Courses and Edit Course Display Names
• Give Teachers Access to Students' Exam, Semester, and Final Averages
• Give Teachers Permission to View And/Or Add Incidents
• Allow Teachers to Create Event Categories
• Set Teacher Permissions for the Unit Builder
• Allow Teachers to Send E-Mail Notifications

Customize Navigation Menus for Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff Portals

You can select which Master menu options display on teaching and non-teaching staff portals and which Section menu options display on teaching staff portals (Figure 1).

Figure 1:  Teacher Portal Navigation Menus

1. On the navigation bar, click Permissions.
2. Click Teachers.
3. Under Master Menu Customization (Figure 2), customize the navigation menus. For more information, see the following diagram and table.

Figure 2:  Master Menu Customization

4. At the bottom of the Teachers tab, click Save Settings.

Allow Teachers to Schedule Online Meetings

You can allow teachers to schedule online meetings using a custom link and/or Microsoft Teams. Students and parents can view and attend the meeting from their portal.

1. On the navigation bar, click Permissions.
2. Click Teachers.
3. Under Meetings, select the Enable Meetings check box.

By default, the Allow Custom Links and Allow Microsoft Teams Meetings check boxes are selected.

• To disable teachers' ability to create a meeting using a custom link, clear the Allow Custom Links check box.
• To disable teachers' ability to create a meeting using Microsoft Teams, clear the Allow Microsoft Teams Meetings check box.

Important: At least one of the check boxes other than Enable Meetings needs to be selected for the Meetings feature to work.

4. At the bottom of the page, click Save Settings.

Customize Teachers' Directory Permissions

You can give teachers permission to see parent, teacher, and student directories. You can also select which demographics are visible to teachers in each directory.

Important: The demographics displayed in the PlusPortals directories depend on the Directory Opt-In/Opt-out setting (Set Default Directory Display Settings) and the demographic information parents and students choose to share.

To customize teachers' directory permissions, follow these steps:

1. On the navigation bar, click Permissions.
2. Click Teachers.
3. Scroll down to Directory.
4. See the diagram and table below to customize directory settings.
5. At the bottom of the Teachers tab, click Save Settings.

Important: Remember to click Save Settings at the bottom of the Teachers tab to save your changes.

Allow Teachers to Post Discussions

You can choose to activate or deactivate the Discussions feature in teacher portals by following these steps:

1. On the navigation bar, click Permissions.
2. Click Teachers.
3. Scroll down to Discussions.
4. To activate the Discussions feature, select the Active for teachers check box. To deactivate the feature, clear the Active for teachers check box.
   
5. Click Save Settings.

Choose Which Student Demographics are Visible to Teachers

You can select which student demographics are visible to teachers by following these steps:

1. On the navigation bar, click Permissions.
2. Click Teachers.
3. Scroll down to Demographics, and then select the demographics you want to make visible to teachers.
4. At the bottom of the Teachers tab, click Save Settings.

Customize the Students Tab in Teacher Portals

You can choose which student panels appear on the Students tab in teacher portals by following these steps:

1. On the navigation bar, click Permissions.
2. Click Teachers.
3. Scroll down to Students Tab (Figure 1), and then select the student panels you want to display in teacher portals (Figure 2).
4. At the bottom of the Teachers tab, click Save Settings.

Figure 1: Students Tab in PlusPortals Management Site

Figure 2: Student Tab Panels in Teacher Portals

Allow Teachers to Show/Hide Courses and Edit Course Display Names

You can give teachers the ability to show or hide their courses from parents and students and edit their course display names by following these steps:

1. On the navigation bar, click Permissions. The Summary tab opens.

2. Scroll down to Section Visibility.
3. Select the Allow teachers to select parent/student visibility and change display name for their courses check box.

Note: Changing the display name does not change the core course name. The edits only change how the name is displayed in parent and student portals.

4. At the bottom of the Summary tab, click Save Settings.

Give Teachers Access to Students' Exam, Semester, and Final Averages

You can make students' exam averages, semester averages, and final averages visible on the Scores tab in teacher portals by following these steps:

1. On the navigation bar, click Permissions.
2. Click Teachers.
3. Scroll down to Scores Tab, and then select Show Exams, Semester and Final Averages.

4. At the bottom of the Teachers tab, click Save Settings.

Give Teachers Permission to View And/Or Add Incidents

You can allow teachers to view all students' disciplinary incidents or just the incidents submitted by that teacher. You can also enable teachers to submit incidents from PlusPortals. The incidents are sent to the AdminPlus Discipline Holding Bin, where they are reviewed, and, if approved, become part of the students' permanent records.

To give teachers permission to view and/or add incidents, follow these steps:

1. On the navigation bar, click Permissions.
2. Click Teachers.
3. Scroll down to Incidents, and then set teacher permissions for viewing and adding incidents.

4. At the bottom of the Teachers tab, click Save Settings.

Allow Teachers to Create Event Categories

Using event categories, teachers can organize the events they post to their class calendars. To enable event category permissions for teachers, follow these steps:

Important: Because it’s possible to create multiple categories for the same type of event (for example, “Homework”, “homework”, or “Coursework”), we recommend limiting the ability to create event categories to the PlusPortals administrator. See Create, Edit, and Delete Event Categories.

1. On the navigation bar, click Permissions.
2. Click Teachers.
3. Scroll down to Calendar, and then select Allow Teachers to create Event categories.

4. At the bottom of the Teachers tab, click Save Settings.

Set Teacher Permissions for the Unit Builder

You can allow teachers to edit the contents of a unit, create their own unit, and add links or files to a unit.

Note: When you create a unit in the Unit Builder and assign it to a class, the unit appears in the Lesson Planner for that class. The unit in the administrator’s Unit Builder and the unit in the teacher’s Lesson Planner are the same. Editing the content of a unit in one location automatically updates the other. Teachers can only edit the content of a unit if an admin user with Unit Builder access gives them permission.

To set teacher permissions for the Unit Builder, follow these steps:

1. On the navigation bar, click Setup > Unit Builder.
2. Click Settings.
3. Do any of the following:

• To enable teachers to edit the Unit Name, select the Allow teachers to edit the content of Units created by administrators check box.

Note: The Unit Name is the only content affected by this setting. Teachers can always edit the Start Date and End Date of a unit. When a teacher edits a unit with more than one assigned class, the Unit Builder duplicates the unit so the other classes are not affected. An information icon  indicates that the new unit was “Edited by [Last Name], [First Name].”

• To enable teachers to create new units in their Lesson Planner, select the Allow teachers to create Units check box.

Note: When a teacher creates a unit, it appears in the Unit Builder. An information icon  indicates that this unit was “Created by [Last Name], [First Name].”

• To enable teachers to add their own files and links to Teacher Resources, select the Allow teachers to add files and links to Teacher Resources check box.

Note: Teachers cannot edit or delete files that an administrator has added to Teacher Resources.

4. Click Save.

Allow Teachers to Send E-Mail Notifications

Follow these steps to allow teachers to send e-mail notifications to parents and students when posting new content to their class pages.

1. On the navigation bar, click Permissions.
2. Click Teachers.
3. Scroll down to E-Mail Notification.
4. Next to Allow Teachers to send e-mail notifications, click Yes or No.
5. Click Save Settings.