MyPathways - District Settings (Indiana)

Important Note: Previewing Changes

• To preview updates made in district settings, you can access any student’s MyPathways by navigating to the student’s graduation worksheet and selecting “MyPathways” in the upper right corner.

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Access

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• Turn on/off access to MyPathways as needed

• By graduation year – including parents/guardians of the above students if you wish

• In the cases where the Parent/Guardian has access to more than one student, only the students selected above will be visible.

Controls

Areas Available Check boxes to make specific items visible to students and families. If a box is left unchecked, it will not be visible to any users of MyPathways. 4-Year Planner - Checking this box allows students and families to VIEW the 4 year planner, but does not give them the ability to edit or select courses Counselor of Record - It is recommended that each counselor update their contact information in Pathways if you choose to display this. They can do so within their Pathways Personal Settings.	Open
Document Uploads Document uploading will be available only to students (not parents and guardians). Documents will be restricted in file size (12mb) and file type (PDF, JPEG, PNG). Students will be required to select from the available titles below. District can add custom titles if needed. Alerts will be made available to the counselor that a document is ready for review. Any data retrieved from the documents must be reviewed and entered by the counselor (no automated uploading of data).	Open
4 Year Planner Access Granting access to any groups in this area allows them to make course selections via the 4 Year Planner Only students given access can make selections -they may make preferred course selections within the 4-Year Planner, but the student's choices will not overwrite the counselor's selection. The counselor must approve the student's preferred course selections. Global Access - You may specify which students may make course selections for specific school years. Check the years in which the course selection process should be open. Subject Access - Use the checkboxes to grant access to the students to select their preferred courses in the following subject areas. These areas will only be open to those students who are granted Global Access in the table above.	Open For example, if a district wanted all students to make selections in the 4 Year Planner for Core Subjects ONLY, all years would be checked in “Global Access” and all core courses would be checked in “Subject Access” Open

Custom Messages

• Custom district-wide messages may be added to specific pages. These messages are intended to educate or inform your users about the specifics of these areas as they may relate to your district.

• All authenticated users of your district’s MyPathways will be able to view these messages. Do not include any information specific to an individual student or group of students that should not be seen publicly.

• Note: Graduation Pathways and Education Advanced, INC, accept no responsibility for the content posted in these messages, including the accuracy of any language translation.

• To create a custom message, select an area of MyPathways. Then type a message in the text box using the text editor. Links are able to be included. Then click “Save Custom Message”

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District and School Contact Information

• This information will be available to the students, parents, and guardians in MyPathways

• Individual counselors will be able to add/edit their own specific contact information. These fields are meant for more general district and school contact information. Counselors can set contact information within their Pathways Personal Settings.

• You may wish to include a brief message, building location, contact phone, contact email, etc. Leave field blank if you wish for the link to not appear and thus nothing is displayed.

• You have the ability edit for the district as well as individual campuses.

• To add contact information, type in the text box underneath the district/campus name using the text editor. Links are able to be included. Then click “Save District and School Contact Information”

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