Student tags (also known as August Tags) are placed on the Student Cards by platform users to facilitate the identification of these students on the Student Roster and even the Reporting feature. These tags often communicate useful information that can also be used for support decisions by faculty and teachers. For example, a tag of "Accommodations" can signal to a teacher viewing the student's record via the Portal that they should review an accommodations plan attached to the student's record.
By default, these tags are only visible:
in the August Schools platform (and not the Portal), and
to users with the role under which the tag was added (e.g., Nurse tags).
Sysadmins can make these tags visible in the Portal to faculty members who use the Portal. This article explains how to make these tags visible to faculty in the Portal.
Instructions
Step One: Navigate to the Settings page:
Step Two: Locate the Instance settings section of the page:
Step Three: Click into the 'Tags visible to faculty' text box to expand the dropdown menu of available tags or to type the name of the desired tag:
Step Four: Select the desired tag from the dropdown menu to add to the list of tags to be made visible:
Step Five: Select the 'Update settings' button to make the selected tag(s) visible. The tag will appear in blue on the row for the student in Roster list views as below:
Additional Notes
To delete the tag(s), simply select the 'X' button next to the name of the desired tag(s) and re-select the 'Update settings' button.
Tags will be groups by role in the dropdown menu to facilitate identification.