An important first-step in creating a positive ClassTag experience for all staff and family users is to ensure that your school and classroom settings are properly configured.

As a School Leader, you have access to configure appropriate settings for your school page, and select how teachers and guardians can use ClassTag at your school.

Getting Started

Select for whom you’d like teachers to be able to create announcements for:

Select for whom you’d like guardians to be able to initiate conversations with:

INVITATIONS

When a guardian enters their user profile within "Account Settings" in ClassTag, they have the ability to add other co-parents for their student. As a School Leader, you have the ability to turn this feature ON or OFF.

CLASSROOM COMMUNICATIONS

When creating announcements, teachers have access to send announcements using any of the following enhancements. As a School Leader, you can select which announcement enhancements you’d like teachers to have access to or not.

You can also control guardians' access to classroom directories from the school level.

STAFF

Connect schools can choose to turn off some of ClassTag's commerce features, including classroom funds and supply lists for all staff members and classrooms.

SIS ROSTERING

For schools who are syncing their data with either Clever, ClassLink, or their SIS, you can select to allow teachers to also create manual classrooms in addition to the classrooms created by your data sync. This option is great for teachers who sponsor after-school clubs, etc. for which automated rosters are not created by your SIS.

This setting will remain grayed out if you are not currently syncing your data, in which manual classroom creation is always allowed.

SCHOOL COLOR AND THEMES

School Leaders can also update their page branding here. Learn More About School Themes and Colors.

Once your settings are configured properly, select UPDATE SCHOOL.

As a Classroom Teacher, you have access to configure appropriate settings for your classroom pages. Classroom settings must be adjusted for each classroom you own. Note that some of these settings may be overwritten by your school leaders’ preferences.

Getting Started

Enable Daily Summary

An additional notification will be sent each morning to guardians to recap that day’s upcoming events.

Allow Parents to Create Activities and Announcements

This will allow guardians to post and send announcements and events that can be seen by all other guardians in the classroom.

Allow Parents to Comment and Add Reactions to Announcements

This will allow guardians to post comments and reactions that can be seen by all other guardians in the classroom.

Allow Parents to Upload Photos and Files

This will allow guardians to add photos or files in the form of Announcements or Comments (unless turned off in above settings), Direct Conversations, and Student Backpacks.

Allow Parents to Start Conversations With Other Parents

This will allow guardians to begin a direct conversation with other guardians in the classroom. *This setting can be overwritten by the School Leader inside the School Page Settings.

Show the Classroom Directory to Parents

This will allow guardians to see the list of other guardians that are part of the classroom within the Classroom Directory. *This setting can be overwritten by the School Leader inside the School Page Settings.

Show the Classroom Supply List

This will allow guardians to view and purchase school supplies directly from ClassTag. *This setting can be overwritten by the School Leader inside the School Page Settings.

CLASSTAG PLUS THEMES

Teachers can also update their classroom page themes.

MANAGE YOUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM CONNECTION

Teachers can opt to integrate their associated Google Classroom and take advantage of some of our Google Classroom features. Learn More Here.

Once your settings are configured properly, select UPDATE CLASS.

NOTE: Teachers will need to update the settings for each classroom they own.

If a classroom is no longer being used, a teacher can select to “Graduate” this class.

There is one other CLASSROOM setting worth mentioning which can be found within the WEEKLY SUMMARY tab.

By default, a Weekly Summary will send an additional notification to guardians on a specific date and time selected by the teacher. The purpose of the Weekly Summary is to notify the guardian of upcoming events in the next week. This summary is only sent when there are EVENTS/ACTIVITIES listed for the coming week.

If you’d like to disable the Weekly Summary from being sent, you will need to select the WEEKLY SUMMARY tab and deselect the checkbox for each of your classrooms.