Additional Information about Personal Dashboards

My Account - Every logged in user will have access to the “My Account” link in their personal dashboard. This link provides access to the following pages based on your role. Each of the “My Account” links is briefly explained below:

• Calendar - The Calendar link combines all of your events, meetings and assignments into your personal calendar based on your group memberships (classroom pages and other activity fusion pages). You can also include personal appointments. The personal calendar is only visible to the logged in user. For parents and guardians, there is a separate calendar within the My Family link that is used for viewing the events, assignments, and activities for your children. School and district calendar events are not included in this calendar.
 
• Files - The My Files link allows you to upload documents, often referred to as a “Digital Locker.” Files can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection. Although all logged-in users have this service, this is intended for students as a means to safely upload and store electronic files.
 
• Message Center - The Message Center link is available to all users. Teachers can message parents and students, and students and parents can message teachers. Teachers who have activated their FusionTools profile will not see a My Message Center Link.

Students and parents cannot message other students or parents. Although there is a single Inbox to receive messages, if you are a parent with children in more than one school and want to initiate a message, you must navigate to that specific school site so that the available list of teachers and staff will appear.


• Multimedia Blog – This link is only available for Faculty/Staff who have activated their profile. It contains links to Blogs, Photo Slideshows, Videos, Podcasts, Wikis and more.
What is a Multimedia Blog? SchoolFusion has taken the traditional elements of a blog, a Video and Podcasting system, Photo Slideshows and Wikis, and combined them into one location. Users will be able to read and comment on a Faculty/Staff Member‘s blog postings, podcasts and videos, and photo albums from one page. The Multimedia Blog page shows all the various types of posts by a Faculty/Staff member in one location regardless of the posting type. From this page, a Faculty/Staff Member will be able to add more posts, edit existing posts, administer future postings and configure podcast feeds. Users will be able to comment on any blog post that the Faculty/Staff Member allows through the system‘s student participation platform. Students and parents can access a Faculty/Staff Member‘s Multimedia blog through the Faculty/Staff Member‘s Faculty/Staff Profile, through one of the Faculty/Staff Member‘s FusionPages or through their personal Recent Activity.


• Personal Settings - Users can personalize select account information or, with a faculty or staff account, create a public profile. Under no circumstances can users manually reset their passwords, change their parent-child affiliations, or update critical contact information. All formal changes to contact information are handled via each individual’s school administration office through the district’s Service Center.
 
• Create - Teachers can click once to add information to their pages or to create a blog or discussion topic for their students.
 
• FusionPages – The FusionPage fly-out menu allows users to view and access all of their affiliated FusionPages. This will include classes, clubs, committees, and athletics. Class membership is controlled directly from the District’s student information database (ESIS) and membership changes must be managed by working directly with your school’s administration. Other optional FusionPages are managed via personal opt in/out methods.
 
• Teachers - The Teachers fly-out menu provides direct links to the Profile pages of other Faculty/Staff where the Faculty/Staff is a member of any of those FusionPages.
 
• Reports – Faculty and staff can access the Reports tab which provides classroom information and analytics about site user activity, classroom page activity, and discussion topics.
 
• My Family - This link will only appear for Parent/Guardians. This link will allow parents to view all of their children’s classes and calendar information from one central location regardless of the school(s) attended. If you cannot see all of your children, contact SourceSupport@seattleschools.org.
 
• Code name – Students will see a code name listed under their name for example “Pine Penguin” in their dashboards. This code name is used for student participation and commenting. Other students can only view the code name of the commenter while teachers can view the code name and student name.
 
• Recent Activity - The Recent Activity link appears to all users. Clicking on the link displays a page with any recent activity pertaining to your SchoolFusion user account. The information contained within this page is the same information that is contained within the Recent Activity Email and RSS feed. These notifications could potentially include the following information, based on the configuration of each organization, and the information entered by the teacher:
 
• Home work assignments
• Class announcements
• Class/Group Calendar Events
• The addition of new Class/ Group files
• Blog entries by teachers of groups that the user is a member of
• Responses to any comments that the user has posted
• Message Center Notifications