School Admin Guide: Getting Started with simpldiscipline
Welcome to simpldiscipline!
This quick start guide will help school administrators learn the basics of simpldiscipline and quickly find the resources needed to manage incidents, users, school settings, notifications, automation, reporting, and more.
Start with the School Administrator Overview Video below, then use the quick links on this page whenever you need help with a specific feature.
The tools available to school administrators may vary based on how your district has configured simpldiscipline. Districts can choose to manage certain settings centrally or delegate them to school-level administrators.
🎥 Start Here
School Administrator Overview Video
Get a walkthrough of the most common features and tools used by school administrators in simpldiscipline.
🔔 Email Notifications & Login Preferences
Customize the administrative email notifications you receive from simpldiscipline.
Choose which area of simpldiscipline you would like to see first when you log in.
🛠️ Delegated Administrative Settings
Districts decide which administrative settings are managed centrally and which can be managed by school-level administrators.
Depending on your district's configuration, school administrators may be able to manage items such as school information, calendars, teacher visibility settings, and user access. If you do not see one of these options, your district may not have delegated that setting to your school.
Learn which settings can be delegated to school administrators and where district administrators can update these permissions if additional school-level access is needed.
👤 Users, Roles & Permissions
Review the different simpldiscipline user roles and understand what each role allows a user to access.
If user management has been delegated to your school, learn how to update a user's role and permissions.
⚙️ Configure Your School
Update the school logo used throughout simpldiscipline and on supported documents.
Update the administrator names that appear on generated letters and documents.
Manage the events and options available on your school's incident calendar.
👀 Teacher Access & Visibility
Schools and districts can determine how much information teachers can view for students rostered to them. Depending on your configuration, teachers may see all permitted discipline information for their rostered students or only information they personally documented.
Learn how visibility settings control teacher access to discipline incidents, minor infractions, positive referrals, and notes for students rostered to them.
Grant additional visibility to a specific teacher without changing the visibility settings for every teacher at the school.
🏷️ Teacher-Visible Behavior Codes
When a teacher submits a discipline incident, they select a behavior code to describe the incident. This serves as a placeholder for the administrator reviewing the referral. The administrator determines the official behavior code when processing the incident.
Districts can control which behavior codes teachers are allowed to select during submission. If this setting has been delegated, school administrators can manage the available teacher-submission behavior codes for their school.
⚡ Real-Time Alerts & Automation
Real-Time Alerts allow schools and districts to automatically identify students when specific attendance, discipline, or student criteria are met.
Instead of relying on staff to manually monitor student records or reports, Real-Time Alerts can automatically trigger workflows and notify the appropriate staff when a student reaches a configured threshold.
Use Real-Time Alerts to automate workflows such as identifying students who reach a certain number of tardies, monitoring attendance or discipline thresholds, or alerting staff when a student with an IEP reaches 10 days of OSS.
Rules can be configured around specific criteria so staff are automatically made aware when intervention or follow-up may be needed.
📊 Reports & Analytics
Use simpldiscipline reports and analytics to review student data, identify trends, monitor school activity, and access information that can help support administrative decision-making.
Explore available reports for discipline, attendance, interventions, student history, and other areas of simpldiscipline.
📚 Managing Student Information
The following sections contain detailed instructions for the areas school administrators use most often. Use these resources whenever you need step-by-step help processing or managing student information.
Everything you need to know about reviewing, approving, editing, denying, reverting, and managing discipline incidents.
Learn how minor infractions are submitted, reviewed, managed, and escalated.
Learn how to manage positive referrals, recognize students, and communicate positive behavior.
Learn how to document and manage notes associated with students.
Find instructions for generating letters, working with documents, and communicating with parents, staff, and other contacts.
📱 Quick Access on Your Phone or Tablet
Create a shortcut on your mobile device so you can quickly access simpldiscipline without navigating to the website each time.