Teams, and who is on them

Kindergarten, First Grade, the reading interventionists — a team is whatever your school really divides into. Every class belongs to one, and everyone on that team can open its children and their marks. A teacher who teaches across two grades is on both teams.

Teams are on the Teams page, which shows every team you can see. An administrator also has them on the Teams tab of a school's console, for that school alone — which is where a district administrator divides up a school she does not teach at.

1. On Teams, choose Add a team.
2. Give it a Team name, and choose its School where you run more than one.
3. Choose Add team. You are on the team you make, unless you administer the school without working there — a district administrator runs the school either way, and stays off its grade teams.

Add someone, under a team, lists people already at that school who aren't on it yet. An administrator can put anyone at the school on any of its teams; a teacher can bring a colleague onto a team she is on herself, which is how a grade team usually forms.

A teacher looking at a team she isn't on sees Ask to join. Those requests wait at the top of Teams, under Asking to join, with Approve and Decline. She is emailed either way.

Taking someone off

The menu beside a person has Remove from, with the team's name after it. If classes on the team are theirs, Mastery Board names those classes before it happens: the classes stay on the team, still theirs, with every mark, but the teacher can't open them until she is put back on.

Taking someone off the school itself, rather than off one team, is on the Staff tab of the school's console: the menu at the end of their row has Take off this school. It takes them off every team at that school at once. What they made there stays behind — classes and the marks in them stay where they are, and the Board Templates they made at that school become yours, because owning one is its own way in and a template left in a leaver's hands is a door left open.

A team can't be deleted while classes are still on it, or while templates use objectives it named. Move the classes to another team first.