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Privacy is at the core of Educa and we give you the options to control who can access and edit a child's profile.
Accessing Your Privacy Settings
You'll find your privacy settings under Settings > Privacy.
Accessing and Editing a Child's profile
There are a few ways you can restrict access to a child's profile and who can make changes.
Class Privacy
By default, Class Privacy is off — all teachers can view and contribute to every child’s profile. When enabled, teachers can only access children in their assigned classes and their profile children.
Editing and Inviting
By default, Teachers and Parents are able to edit the child's profile and send invites to Family. You have the option of making the following changes as needed.
Who can edit a Child's profile
All Teachers and Child's Parents (Default)
All Teachers
Who can invite Family to a Child's profile
All Teachers and Child's Parents (Default)
All Teachers
Site Admin Only
Adding Children
By default, only Teacher with Site Admin Access are able to create new child profiles. If you would like to enable any Teacher to create child profiles, you can enable this here.
Hiding Information
There a few options to control what information Teachers or Family Members can see when using Educa.
Hide Family Emails From Other Family Members
By default, all Family Members can view the email address of other Family attached to their child's profile. If you wish to hide these emails from other family, you have the option.
Show Last Names
By default, the last names of all Teachers and Children are visible from the All Teachers and All Children pages. You can turn this off for simplified viewing if you wish.
Please note that Last names will be visible when viewing individual profiles for Teachers and Children.
Display a Privacy Label Below all Stories
This enables you to display a disclaimer at the bottom of all your stories for Family Member to see.
Enable this option to display the following message on all stories:
Please be sensitive when sharing stories with friends and family as other families' children may be involved.
By default, this option is turned off sot he message won't show unless enabled.
Teacher Reports
The Teacher Story Report gives you an overview of the number of stories each Teacher has created over a given time period.
By default, only Teachers with Site Admin Access can view this report. This gives you the option for Non-Admin Teachers to view if needed.
Conversations
Conversations allows Teachers and Families to communicate with each other in a private message thread.
By default, only Teachers are able to create a new Conversation between themselves and Family Members. If you enable this option, Families can create these Conversations themselves and Teacher will be notified.