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School Settings

Overview

All administrative accounts have access to these school settings. Most settings only have to be set once, but we recommend that you review all settings from year to year. The best time to check your settings is approximately 1 week before the start of a school year.

Step-By-Step Guide

    1. Log into your account.

    2. click the School Settings button located in the Toolbox section of your portal homepage.

SETTINGS FOR STANDARD (WEBSITE ONLY) SITES

There are only 2 settings for our website only product.

  1. Share Contact Email in Directories

    Choose to show or hide the email icon next to staff names in the directory. Hiding the icon means that public visitors will not be able to send messages to faculty and staff. This setting for Plus customers is included in the "Access & Registration Management" section listed below.

  2. Set Teacher Import IDs

    This feature is used to set ID's for teachers while upgrading to our Plus product.

SETTINGS FOR PLUS SITES

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TERMS AND ACCESS REGISTRATION

Of the four sections found on the School Settings page, only the Terms and Access Registration Management sections are essential to ensuring that your School Loop site is properly configured.

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Term Settings

Terms (e.g. quarter, semester, year) are part of the data School Loop imports, but the start and end dates must be set manually. Here is an article to learn more about How to set terms.

ACCESS AND REGISTRATION MANAGEMENT

All of the settings related to access to School Loop and user registration have been grouped into a single page. See Access & Registration Management Settings.

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SETTINGS HISTORY

Settings History records the username, date, time and action for all changes to the school-wide settings. It has a table of records which shows all the setting changes done by a user on a certain computer.

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Calculate Averages in Progress Reports

Calculate Averages in Progress Reports gives teachers the option to include the overall class average in the progress reports for individual students, allowing students and their parents to compare the student's average with the average of all students in that period.

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Global Settings

District Admins can broadcast the settings for terms and Access Registration Management from a single form. All schools in the district are updated with the same settings in a single click. If some schools have unique settings, follow the directions listed above. Here is an article that illustrates the way Global Settings are done.