Setting up and Using the Classrooms Feature Overview

Setting up and Using the Classrooms Feature Overview

What are Classrooms?

When trying to send out a message to a small group quickly, it's much easier when the correct list is ready for you.

Your app has always had the option of creating targeted lists for sending push notifications, news updates, and conversations.
With our latest release, we've added something fun (and automated)!

The classrooms functionality can automatically create a classroom list with your SFTP sync (if set up). Don't worry if you are not using SFTP you can still create your classroom lists manually for future use! 

Why does this matter? Teachers can communicate with pre-determined lists that will be updated with the latest information from your student information system (SIS). Administrators can easily send out targeted push notifications to multiple roles.

ONLY DASHBOARD ADMINISTRATORS CAN CREATE CLASSROOMS
Teachers cannot create a classroom in the Classrooms feature but CAN set up their own Personal Newsfeed Category for their class or group to subscribe to in the Notification settings on the app.

When a Classroom is made there will be a Target List created with the same name to send out push notifications

Setting up Classrooms

Ways to set up your Classrooms

SFTP sync from your SIS

Benefits of set up via SFTP sync:
- Optimal as it automatically updates students, or staff, listed in classrooms
- Classroom participants are all added to their respective classrooms quickly & easily with a simple designation withing the sync information

Manually

There are two Manual ways to Create Classrooms.

You can either create new Classrooms one at a time, individually
OR
You can “Import” multiple "Classrooms" (imported from an Excel file)

From the Dashboard under Features, Select “Classrooms”

  

Select “+New”







Select or upload the image you want to use, if you have an external image you want to use via URL add it here as well in External Image URL
- Name the List
- Add a Description if you prefer

Add Members,  once you start typing a person’s name, they will appear for you to select them

Click "Save and Edit" & "Ok"



      When you navigate back to “Classrooms” you will see the newly created Classroom listed successfully


     If you want to import multiple Classrooms at once, you can click "Import Classrooms" at the top of the page.

Then, use the Excel Template to create a list of Classrooms at once.


Target list

                  Creating a classroom will auto-generate a target list, with the name of this classroom.

                  When creating a target list, the admin can select one or multiple classrooms, by checking the box on the right side.

               



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