Group Page Access - Change in Default Values

Candace Chesler

Checking in to see if this happened to anyone else.
We manually manage our Group Page Access for parents and students to view Classroom Bulletin Boards, Topics and Rosters. Every year, on the day we are going to publish the Homeroom lists - I manually go in to Core > Security > Group Page Access - and set that visibility.

This year - the default values for two of my divisions changed so that the Homeroom Bulletin Boards, Topics and of course the Class Rosters - were visible to parents on the day that I imported the enrollments.

I created my Early Childhood Academic and Activity Terms for the new Academic Year in late June. I created the Lower School and Middle School terms for the new Academic Year on July 28 - after the K-12 Conference and the post-conference roll out of new features.

My question is - did the default values for Group Page Access change for anyone else? Just trying to determine if maybe I changed the defaults for two of our divisions and not the third - and didn't tell myself that I did that. It's entirely possible!

Susan Ott

@Candace Chesler, we had an issue too with our Advisories showing for our HS too soon. This is what we THINK happened. I rolled over the lower and middle school advisories back in May or June. I removed all the access to parents/students/teachers from Group Page Access for all academics, teams, advisories, etc. for all three divisions - LS, MS, and HS. Then I enrolled the students into the LS and MS advisories. My boss rolled over the HS advisories AFTER I removed access. In checking what to rollover, he remembers a checkbox about group page access that he left checked. We believe because it was checked, and last year's advisory group page access was set for all to see, that it overrode the removed access. We do not remember this checkbox in previous years nor have we ever had this happen. We made sure we immediately updated our procedure notes so we'll remember next year!

Trudy Howard

@Candace Chesler I believe ours changed when we did the rollover - not ideal at all.

Jo Giesecke

@Candace Chesler I had the same issue.