Creating a User Account

If you are also a teacher in the school, you should not use the “manager” account for your day-to-day SchoolTool tasks, such as grading and taking attendance. You need to make a second account for yourself in the role of a teacher. Logged in as “manager,” click on the School link at the top of the page, then People to end up here:

Under Add in the sidebar, you have shortcuts for some common groups – Administrator, Student, and Teacher – and just Person lets you choose a different primary group, or no group for the person. We’ll just use the basic Add: Person form this time:

Most of the fields are optional except for the fields with green asterixes first name, last name, and username. For now, just put in your basic information and a password. We’ll go into much more detail concerning the rest of this form later.

Click Submit and you should see:

You should now be able to Log Out as “manager” by following the link at the upper right, and Log In as your new user, at which point you should see the user’s calendar: