Student Central is structured as a school controlled network with teachers authorized to approve messages, events and media of their clubs, classes and teams.
A district Administrator has the option to enable/disable many of the features for all schools within their district.
Each school has the ability to enable two levels of advanced approval options that may be applied globally, or to specific clubs/classes/teams. With the first level of advanced approval enabled, the School Coordinator must approve each proposed event or media item before it will be viewable on StudentCentral.bigteams.com. If the most advanced approval requirement is enabled, then the principal must approve every item after the School Coordinator has approved the item.
Student Central has the ability to search for media shielded students by name and can remove media immediately. Only authorized school representatives have the ability to search for and remove a Media Shielded Student.
Yes. Every school creates a theme using its colors and you may include your school's logo, as well as logos for any teams or other organizations in your school.
Student Central is always trying to reduce the workload on teachers – particularly the administrative burdens. There are three ways for accounts to be created. Regardless of how accounts are created, teachers do not have to add students to their club, class or team; that is the responsibility of each student by simply clicking on the "Follow" button for each club, class or team in which the students is involved.
Yes, Student Central can work with most school software to allow for single sign-on between the programs.
When you create your account, select one of the schools as your home school. After your account is created, click on Search located in the blue bar at the top. Locate the other school from Search and select that second school. You may now click on the Follow button in the school box near the upper left corner of that school's page. You will now receive information from the second school, just as well as from your home school. You may also follow clubs/classes/teams from the second school as well. On your My Student Central page, there will be icons for each of your schools so you may easily navigate to either school.
There is an automatic log off feature on Student Central that terminates the session if there has been no activity for 5 minutes. To avoid being automatically logged off, simply check the "Keep Me Logged In" box below the email address and password when logging into your account. If the box is not checked, the automatic log off may interfere with the uploading of a document or media item that takes longer than 5 minutes.
Student (clubs, classes and teams), parent (PTSA, Booster Associations) and administrative (Faculty Departments)
Choosing to be a member of a Club or Team means you will receive all access, and will receive all updates and every announcement made by the club for routine meetings and practices as well as for the most important events. Following as a fan, you will receive access to all media and information on the site, but only receive updates regarding the most important events. When notifications are sent, the audience to receive the notification is defined as intended for just Members, just Fans, both or other subsets of each.
The sponsor of each club, class or team may view who is following as a member or fan. The School Coordinator may also see every account associated with the school.
Teachers control the events, notifications and media for their club, class or team.
Teachers choose to receive immediate notifications of approvals needed or one nightly notification of approvals needed.
Student Central highly suggests you designate a club officer or other dependable student as Leadership for your club, class or team. The Leadership designation allows the named person to draft an event, notification, SPEC or discussion. This draft is automatically put into a pending status - you will receive a notification that your approval is needed. Once you have approved, the event goes live to the site. A great way to delegate responsibility while maintaining complete control.
Yes, you can purge all followers designated by member or fan or choose to remove members and fans on an individual basis.
Student Central has a variety of custom logos from which you may choose. You may also send a request for a custom logo, and even include proposed art. We will accommodate requests as much as possible.
You are able to disable a Club, Class or Team. If you wish to reactivate this Club contact your Student Central representative.
No problem, Student Central has enabled a way for events to be hidden from the School Calendar while still showing on the Club, Class or Team's calendar. This option is enabled and disabled by a click of your mouse and available on a club, class or team basis.
Yes, Student Central offers an advanced approval process which allows the School Coordinator to approve all events, notifications, SPECS and discussions before going live to the site. The School Coordinator may choose which features, if any, he or she wishes to pre-approve.
On the school's dashboard, which is accessible to only the School Coordinator, there are links with every category to access help guides that are designed with lots of screen shots and annotations to make use of the site very easy. There are also animated screenshots with voice over for each screen that creates events, notifications, elections, etc. In addition, each school has a designated support representative that is backed by a support center. Each club/class/team has the same set of resources available to it.
Any organization affiliated with many schools may use Student Central to communicate more effectively.
Organizations may only be added to StudentCentral.bigteams.com by Student Central management.
Each Club, Class or Team sponsor chooses to "subscribe" to the Organizations relevant to it. A subscription to an organization will allow the organizations information to be passed down to the School's chapter or team.
Notifications and events from Organizations will be added to subscribers' newsfeeds and calendars.
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