User permissions

Profile

The permissions listed in the Profile area determine which areas of the profile the role can adjust from their user accounts. Examine each permission carefully to determine which roles can change their profile information. Ask the following questions to determine the appropriate profile permissions for your school.

• Do I want non-faculty roles, typically parents and students, to build their own user profiles?
• Should users be able to change their email address?
• Should users be able to change their profile pictures?
• Should users be able to choose to display their preferred name instead of or in addition to their given name?
• Do I have a way to encourage users to build their profile information?
• Do I have a way to manage the potential misuse of profile information?

Updates

This area allows you to enable or disable users' ability to create updates on their own user profiles, and their ability to comment on user profiles.

Because user profiles are difficult to moderate for teachers or faculty members, the ability to create user updates is disabled for non-faculty roles. However, you can enable the ability for non-faculty roles to create updates in Courses and Groups, where their activity will be monitored by a course or group admin.

Portfolios

This area allows you to enable or disable users' ability to create and share Portfolios.

• Allow sharing the private link to portfolios

  • Enabled: Allows users to share portfolios using a private link that will allow the recipient to view the portfolio even if the recipient is not logged into Schoology (or doesn't have a Schoology account).

  • Disabled: Users cannot share portfolios via private link.

Blog

This area allows you to enable or disable users' ability to create their own blog posts, and their ability to comment on blog posts.

Because user blog posts are difficult to moderate, the ability to create user blog posts is disabled by default for non-faculty roles. If you enable this feature for students, you should also consider asking teachers to check student blog posts on a regular basis.

Messaging

This area allows you to customize the way a role interacts with Schoology messages. PowerSchool recommends disabling the permission to Send Private Messages to Non-faculty for student and parent roles.

Connections/Networking

By default, only faculty roles may connect with other users on Schoology. We recommend that you leave connection settings enabled for only faculty roles to allow educators to build connection networks.

User Settings

The user settings allow you to increase or limit the level of control users have over their accounts. These permissions only apply to a user's own user account(s) in the personal Account area.

Access

•View user parents/children

• Enabled: Allows the role to see other users' parent/children information from their Schoology user profiles.

• Disabled: Parent/children information is hidden from this role on other users' profiles.

• View user advisors

  • Enabled: Allows the role to see other users' advisor/advisee information from their Schoology user profiles.

  • Disabled: Advisor/advisee information is hidden from this role on other users' profiles.

• View Username and Unique ID in Add Members

  • Enabled: Allows the role to view the associated username and unique ID for each course and group member from the Add Members area.

  • Disabled: Username and unique ID are not visible in the Add Members area for this role.

Liking

• Allow Liking

  • Enabled: Allows the role to Like posts and comments in Schoology.

  • Disabled: The Like option is not available for this role.

Resources

These permissions allow the role to share personal resource collections with other faculty, and/or to share their resources by adding them to Public Resources.

Word filter

This permission allows the role to be exempt from the word filter.

Emails

This permission appears when your school has a custom subdomain in place.

• Redirect email notification links to app.schoology.com

  • Enabled: When users with this role receive email notifications, the notification link will direct to app.schoology.com instead of examplesubdomain.schoology.com. This is useful for parents, who do not usually access Schoology through the subdomain.

  • Disabled: Email notification links direct to the school's custom subdomain.

PowerBuddy

Available settings are based on your organization's active PowerBuddy products.

• Teacher Content Generation

  • Enabled: The role has access to generate content.

  • Disabled: The role cannot access content generation features.

• Student Chat Assistant

  • Enabled: The role has access to the student chat assistant, including chat history.

  • Disabled: The role cannot access the student chat assistant.

• Building-Wide Chat Log Access

  • Enabled: The role has access to all student chat logs by building. Users with this permission will also receive an email notification for every flagged chat logged within their building.

  • Disabled: The role cannot access building-wide chat logs.

• District Information Assistant

  • Enabled: The role has access to the District Information Assistant (if applicable).

  • Disabled: The role cannot access the District Information Assistant.