Groups

This video is highly recommended for SchoolSpeak account administrators and teachers. It will cover:

• Brief introduction to groups
• How to build a group
• What is the importance of using groups as administrators
• How to build multiple groups at one time

Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viOfxWOdUaQ

Groups – Basics

This video is highly recommended for SchoolSpeak account administrators. It will cover:

• What is a group
• How to organize different groups
• What is the importance of groups in SchoolSpeak
• What are the advantages of using groups as administrators
• How do the groups help in maintaining the application such as adding members, promoting members, etc.

Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFBuT28zi98

Building a Group

This video is highly recommended for SchoolSpeak account administrators. It will cover:

• What are the things need to be considered while building a group
• Is it a grade level or class level group
• Does it have a homeroom
• Is it a private or public group
• What are private and public groups
• Who can email or text the group
• Does it have an administrator
• What are the privileges of group administrators
• How to build a group
• How to add a group administrator
• How to add resources to the group
• How to add members to the group

Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtP52P0ujUM

Adding Multiple Groups at one time

This video is highly recommended for SchoolSpeak account administrators. It will cover:

• How to add multiple groups in one go
• What is the admin tool used for adding multiple groups
• How to verify the newly added groups

Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHRqO3_a2iE

Creating Groups for Specific Reasons

This video is highly recommended for SchoolSpeak account administrators. It will cover:

• How to configure new groups for specific purposes
• What is the purpose of the group
• What are the considerations for the new group
• Who should be the administrators of the group
• How to build a new group for a specific purpose
• How to add the homeroom teacher
• What are the types of groups you can build
• Examples of general purpose groups and private purpose groups

Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTj55Oj5VbA

Manage Group Members

This video is highly recommended for SchoolSpeak account administrators. It will cover:

• What is the use of Manage Group Members utility
• How to work on the members of a particular group
• How to remove selected/all members of groups
• How to view selected members/all members of groups
• How to move from one group to another group
• How to move members from one group to another group

Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHvlonLICdc

Using Groups for Member Maintenance

This video is highly recommended for SchoolSpeak account administrators. It will cover:

• How does Groups help in moving members
• What are the instances of moving members
• How does most of the utilities of SchoolSpeak use groups
• How does groups help in batch transfer/student transfer
• How does groups help in managing gradebooks/report cards
• How you can list attendance and make attendance reports based on groups
• How you can create many of the user reports using groups

Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDDbPxGOGF4