You have full control of your account on ClassTag and are free to customize it based on your preferences.
Below are the steps on how to get to the Account Settings page and an explanation of each section.
1. Click the Hamburger menu.
2. Click Account Settings.
The new Account Settings page is divided into four sections.
My Profile
This is where you can change your name, photo, email, phone number, shipping address, and subscriptions such as ClassTag+ for teachers and ClassTag Supporter for parents.
Account Settings (General Settings)
Photo | Your profile photo. The same photo that will appear when you comment and send private messages to other users. |
First Name | Your first name |
Last Name | Your last name |
Email Address | Your email address (optional if you already have a mobile number added) |
Mobile Phone | Your Mobile phone number (optional if you already have an email added) |
Home Phone | Your home phone number (optional) |
Language | Your Language. This also affects the translation of your messages and announcements to teachers and parents in your class. If their set Language is different than yours, it will automatically be translated to their set Language. |
Share my contact information with parents | If you want your email address or phone number visible to parents or other parents in your class. |
Enable Parent Contributions (teachers only) | If you want to allow parents to send you contributions for your Classroom Fund |
Make My Fund Public (teachers only) | If you want to make the Classroom Fund Visible even outside ClassTag |
Reload all data |
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Change your password | Where you change your account password |
Deactivate your account | To Delete your account |
Shipping Information
The address to which orders from the ClassTag Store will be delivered. For teachers, please note that you can only purchase items using your ClassTag Coins when your Classroom is connected to a school. For parents, anything you order from the Supply Lists the teachers share will be delivered to the address here. Please follow the steps below to add an address.
1. Click Add Shipping Address.
2. Fill out the address form manually, or
3. As a teacher connected to a school, you can click the drop-down and select your school. That will automatically fill out the form with the School’s address.
4. Click Add Shipping Address.
NOTE: The Primary Address check box is greyed out if it is the first address added to your account. You can add multiple addresses and the succeeding addresses added will let you check the Primary Address check box if needed.
Subscription
This is where to find one-time and recurring subscriptions such as ClassTag Plus, ClassTag Supporter, Contributions, and more.
Preferences
The section where you can edit your Communication Preferences, Office Hours, and ClassTag Support Messenger on the app.
Communication Preferences
Everything is on by default. You can turn off the setting of each by clicking the green switch if you do not want to receive a certain type of notification. Please see below what each setting means.
Notification Method | Your preferred notification medium: Email, SMS, Push Notification, or None |
Announcement and Child Stories | Notifications when a new Announcement or Child Story is posted on a Classroom you belong to |
Comments | When other users comment on an Announcement or Child Story
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Messages | When parents and other teachers reach out using the private messaging feature |
Weekly Digest | Notifications about weekly summaries |
Daily Digest | Notifications about daily summaries
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Event Notifications | New sign-ups and changes to PTCs, Volunteer Requests, and Other Events commitments. |
Event Reminders | Notifications about upcoming PTCs, Volunteer Requests, and Other Events you committed to. |
Contributions | Notification about new contributions to your Classroom Funds |
Notification Center | Notification that appears on the bell icon near on the upper left side, just on the left side of the purple messaging icon |
Parents can address me | Restrictions on whether you allow parents from other classrooms to send you a private message |
Office Hours
You can set specific hours and days when notifications are sent to you.
1. Turn on the Office Hours switch.
2. Select the days you want to receive notifications by clicking the dropdown menu.
3. Update the Start and End times.
4. If you want to set different Start and End times for a specific day, click Add A Day.
5. Repeat steps 2 and 3.
6. If a new day is conflicting with an already set time and day, you will see a warning.
7. Click the trash icon to delete it.
8. Once everything is set to your preference, click Save.
ClassTag Support Messenger
Turning this off removes the Support Chat bubble on your mobile app.
My Relationships
This is where you can see all Schools, Classrooms, and co-parents that you are linked to regardless of their status, active or archived.
Schools & Classes
Where you can see your current District and School Leadership, Active Classrooms, and Archived Classrooms.
You can click the gear icon next to the District or School if you need to remove it from your account and then click Resign as a teacher/leader.
Clicking Join Another Class only works for parents with their child’s unique code. You can refer to this other article to know the next steps in joining a class using a code.
Clicking the gear icon next to a classroom listed under Previous Classes lets you Unarchive that classroom.
My Family
Where you can see your child/ren and co-parents.
Clicking Invite a co-parent lets you add/invite another guardian to be connected to your child and have visibility to all classrooms the child belongs to.
1. Click Invite a co-parent.
2. Put a check on the child’s name, enter the email address, and select your co-parent’s preferred language.
3. If you want to invite a co-parent using a phone number instead of email, click the dropdown and click Add via Phone.
4. Enter the phone number.
5. If you want to invite them with both credentials, enter both the email and the phone number.
6. Click Send Invitation.
The co-parent will then appear on the list. If they already have an account, the user’s name will appear. If they have no account yet, the email address will show.
Integrations
Social Sign-On
If you want to use Facebook, Google, ClassLink, or Clever logins to be used when logging in to ClassTag.
Google Services
Where you can connect your Google Drive, Calendar, YouTube, and Google Classroom and easily share files across pages on ClassTag.