System Settings: Set-Up Overview

Please note: this article is for users with a System Admin role.

To begin, click Config > System Settings. The Directory page displays settings broken out by type for easy navigability. Settings include General Settings, Core Feature Settings, Reports: Enabled Reports, Reports: Report Settings, and Learn: Resource Settings. You can use the search function in the bottom left to locate a specific setting via keyword.

All System Settings are defaulted based on recommendations from the Grow team, so you may not need to make any changes. However, we recommend clicking through each section to verify current settings align with your network's specific needs. Below is a high-level overview of each system setting. System settings are applied universally across your network. To learn more about a particular setting, hover over the grey question-mark icon at the end of each setting. 

General Settings

• Main Settings: Set the default homepage, time-zone, and key dates for the current school year.
• Email Settings: Enable/disable email notifications.
• Login Settings: Set login method and Single Sign-On integration, if applicable. 
  • The majority of our partners enable Login Page: Log In with Email/Password, Login Page: Create Password, and Login Page: Log In with Google. 
• Danger Zone: Used exclusively during user uploads to archive all users without a role. 

Core Feature Settings

• Quick Feedback: Enable related features. 
• Observations: Enable related features, determine available rubric widgets (which can be further arranged and customized in form setup), and add custom language around signatures (if applicable - most clients leave this as-is).
• Meetings: Enable related features.  
• Action Items: Enable related features and set color-coded flag thresholds. 
• User Profile: Enable additional widgets on the user profile. 
• Comments: Enable shared/private comments. 
• Cycles and Calendar: Turn on the (free!) Cycles/Calendar features. 
• Lesson Plans: Turn on the (free!) Lesson Plan Feedback feature, enable multiple document submission types, and other related features. Once this feature is enabled, you'll see an additional page under the Config menu to build your feedback forms. 

Reports: Enabled Reports

Reports are categorized under the following sections and can be turned on or off. 

• Frequency Reports: Frequency Dashboard, Touchpoint Dashboard, Data Dashboard, District Report, Pacing Dashboard, and Lesson Plan Tracking Report. 
• Coaching Reports: Get Better Faster Report, Action Items Report, Summary Report, Observation Text Field Report, Feature: Turn on Weekly Data Meetings Report, and Tag Dashboard. 
• Score Performance Reports: Form Report, Form Norming Report, Observation Type Report, Performance Dashboard, and Completion Dashboard. 
• Exports: Observation Data Reports, Meetings Report, and Feature: Turn on Lesson Plan Export Report.

Reports: Report Settings

In this section, you will determine additional settings on the reports you enabled in the section above.

• General Report Settings: Determine which fields related to users should be displayed from the start/under extended info on all dashboard tables with users. 
• Frequency Dashboard Settings: Enable additional tabs and columns. 
• Performance Dashboard Settings: Enable Multiple Performance Dashboards, set scoring thresholds for competence, enable Individual Performance Reports, and more related features.
• Touchpoint Dashboard Settings: Determine what counts as a touchpoint, color-coding thresholds, columns, and enable advanced color-coding. 
• Data Dashboard Settings: Enable additional columns and related settings. 
• Completion Dashboard Settings: Enable schools users to appear on the dashboard, and set observation type requirements.
• District Report Settings: Determine which School Tags will appear on the report and enable related features.
• Action Items Report Settings: Set thresholds for open action step flags. 
• Pacing Dashboard Settings: Enable additional tabs, columns and key dates. 

Learn: Resource Settings

• Enabled Resources: Enable the 'To-Do' assignment type, the Coaching Resource Bank (which allows admin to select touchpoints as exemplars and share them network-wide), the Resource Library (a collection of external resources uploaded by admin and shared network-wide), and the option to tag Resource Library Items to meta-data tags. 
• PLU Settings: Partners that have purchased Grow's Professional Learning add-on can configure those settings here.  

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