Portal Planning and Management

Styling and layout options are controlled by Portal Admins, ensuring that each portal is consistent with school branding. Changes to admins, navigation, screens, and portal styling are covered in this article.

The Portals 2017 platform allows virtually any kind of content to be integrated alongside of school-related data. This article highlights several examples.

The Mobile Portal module provides an alternative workflow for schools who want simple, mobile-optimized functionality for parents, teachers or students.

Personal Messages provide a single place to view emails sent to a user via both distribution lists and Composer, as well as posts that teachers have made in class websites.

Each portal has a number of configuration options available on the Configuration tab of the Portal detail screen.

Portal Links provide schools the ability to add links to the parent, student, and faculty portal. These links can be anything from external websites to internal reports. Portal Links enable schools to decide when, where, and with whom links are shared.

Membership can be managed on the Members tab of the Portal detail screen and viewed on the Portal Membership tab of the Person Account detail screen. Users are automatically added to the three role-specific portals (Parent, Student, Teacher) based on their security role.

This article covers how portal membership is determined and managed and includes some tips and workflows for smoothly doing so through the school year.

A sitemap is the overall plan of a website, organizing information on a website according to main categories. This is essentially what a Veracross Portal is.

This article outlines the various links you can add to your portals. They can be added to buttons or as hyperlinks. These only work in portals. Read about merge fields in emails.

Creating new portals using the Portals 3.0 platform for parents, teachers, students, and other constituencies is an exciting, but potentially daunting prospect for schools.

The Screen Builder is a configuration tool for designing and styling how content is delivered to relevant constituents within Portals.

There are a number of system screens which may be added to portals. This article catalogs all of them and includes the shortcut link.

Here are the most common items that schools hide during this period. All of the queries referenced are on the System homepage.

We've built new pages in our demo portals highlighting the many ways you can use its features to keep your constituents informed, especially in this new world of remote work and learning.