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All posts by Matthew Marinovich

Reporting – Suggested Best Practices

The following help article has been written to help schools get their term reports, schedules and other reporting right before they send them out. Sending assessment results to parents, students and the department is a critically important activity. The information is being sent to the primary stakeholders of your school . . . Read more

Family – Reusable Addresses

Staffroom allows for addresses captured for any member of the family, including students and parents, or on the family record itself to be reused. Address reuse within the family record reduces the amount of data entry that is required when adding new students, parents and families to Staffroom. New addresses . . . Read more

Staff – How to add a new staff record

1. Go to the Infobase tab. 2. Click on staff–>Add New. 3. Fill in the info on your screen. A first name and surname are required under the initial Basic Details section. 4. Under user profile give the staff member a username ( Please use the staff members email address . . . Read more

About this Help Site

Welcome to the Staffroom help site! This website is the instruction manual for Staffroom, so if you’re not sure how to do something on Staffroom this is a pretty good place to start.  The site is available to everyone who is using Staffroom so please let your staff know about . . . Read more

Sending SMSes from InTouch

Staffroom allows sending of SMSes to staff, parents or students via third party SMS providers like BulkSMS, SMSPortal and SMSWeb.  It is easy to send SMSes to your classes, grades and groups since Staffroom knows which staff, parents and students are in each. Note that there are two places that you can . . . Read more

How to add a status post

Any school staff with access to Staffroom can post messages in the middle section of the messenger screen and anyone with access to Staffroom can see them.  To add a status post to Staffroom: Select Messenger (Me) from the module menu Type your message into the text box containing the . . . Read more

Reporting – Aggregates and Averages

Staffroom includes a tool for calculating aggregate averages for different combinations of marks and different groups of students.  The averages tool is flexible and it produces tables of averages as well as a table of mark distributions for the selections made.  This page is often used by schools to create . . . Read more

Classes – How to add a new class to staffroom

Staffroom allows you to set up two kinds of classes: Infobase Classes – these are for register classes or homerooms. Assessment Groups – these are for subject teaching classes and they are independent of Infobase Classes. NB: This section describes how you create and view Infobase Classes.  For information about . . . Read more

How to delete a status post

It is possible for the author of a post to delete their own posts from the messenger.  It is also possible for a user with a role that has the “delete every post” permission to delete any post from the messenger.  To delete a post from the messenger: Select Messenger . . . Read more