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Begin by clicking the Security Settings button located at the top of the District Settings page.
Make any necessary changes.
Click the 💾 Save button at the bottom of the window to apply the changes.
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Address Auto Completion
If you want to enhance your users' experience with address auto-completion using Google Maps, you can integrate your own Google Places credentials.
Managing Credentials in SchoolEngage
Click the
Edit button above the Google credentials section.Add, edit or remove your credentials in the provided text fields.
Click the 💾 Save button to confirm your changes.
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Please note that this service is not provided by SchoolEngage, and any associated charges will be incurred directly through Google. For more information, please visit the Google Places page. |
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Upload Mapsource Extension
This section allows you to directly import custom PowerSchool extensions into SchoolEngage. Simply select your .zip or .xml file using the "Browse" button and then click "Upload". You will then be able to map form fields to your newly imported extension.
For more information on how to acquire PowerSchool extensions, please visit our article on Importing Customizations into SchoolEngage.
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Contact Sync Settings
The Contact Sync Settings allow you to configure which contact information is synced from PowerSchool into SchoolEngage.
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The Contact Sync is specifically designed to support SMS sendouts, enabling districts to communicate with emergency contacts. If your district does not use this feature, enabling the sync is unnecessary and may increase the number of parent accounts in the system with little benefit. |
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How to Enable Contact Sync
Enable Contacts Sync:
To activate the Contact Sync, check the “Contacts” checkbox.Prerequisite for Toggles:
The Contacts checkbox must be selected before enabling any other toggles.
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Note: Only staff members with the appropriate permissions can modify Contact Sync settings. |
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Toggles and Criteria
Contacts
This is the core contact sync, which pulls in contact information from PowerSchool.
Criteria for Contact Sync:
The contact must have at least one active student (enrollment status of
0).The contact must have a PowerSchool Guardian ID.
The contact must have a PowerSchool Contact ID.
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Student-Contact Relationship
This toggle syncs the relationship between students and their contacts from PowerSchool, along with their relationship details.
You can refine the sync by selecting specific flags, such as Active Contacts, Emergency Contacts, or Lives With, to determine which relationships to include.
Communication Behavior: When a message is sent, all contacts associated with a student will receive the message. Note that these flags are not displayed on user profiles.
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This setup will pull in:
Contacts
Relationships where the contacts have the at least one of the following flags in PowerSchool:
Active
Emergency
If a contact doesn’t have either Active or Emergency flags, they will be skipped during the sync.
Contact Phones
This toggle will bring in contact phone numbers from PowerSchool