Staff
Overview
The Staff Kiosk ‘Staff’ top menu provides quick access to key functions related to staff management and day‑to‑day operations.
In v01.059.10.200, this module was renamed from 'Teacher' to 'Staff'.
The Staff Details program displays all key information for a staff member (general details, timetable, subjects, notes, buddies, communication log, and scheduled listings) on a single screen, with access controlled by security permissions. It also lets authorised users view other staff members’ details, monitor communications, manage buddies, review and manage schedules, and drill into class and timetable information.
The Teacher Substitutions program lets you search and view substitution records for yourself and, if you’re a HOD/Department Admin, for teachers in your department. From here, you can also open each substitution’s details to add or edit Class Task information and enter feedback on substitute lessons.
The Meetings/Communications program lets you create notifications, send emails and SMS (with an SMS gateway), and arrange meetings for individual staff or groups using flexible staff filters. All communications are logged against both the sender and recipient in Staff Details for tracking and audit purposes.
The Resource Booking System lets staff view availability and book rooms and resources using flexible filters (category, features, campus, date) and custom time slots. Bookings can be created quickly or in detail (including recurrence, multiple resources, attachments, and email notifications), edited by authorised users, and searched/printed via the Resource Bookings program.
The Resource Booking program lets staff search, filter, view, and print lists of resource bookings they have access to for the current term/semester. It also allows users to open existing bookings in view-only or edit mode depending on their relationship to the booking (creator or “Booked For” staff member).
The Learning Support program lets schools create and manage student Support Plans and Class Plans, including NCCD, adjustments, custom fields, evidence and communication notes, and printable/exportable reports for auditing. It also provides flexible filters and views so learning support staff and teachers can quickly find, review, bulk-update and action plans and adjustments for students in their classes.
The Notifications program lets schools create notifications and SMS messages for students, parents, and staff, delivered via Student Café, Parent Lounge, Parent Orbit, the school app, and Staff Orbit. It also logs all notifications and SMS to a communication log, allows viewing and editing past notifications, and produces lists of who received and acknowledged each message.
The Groups program lets you create and maintain custom groups of staff and/or students, then communicate with group members or their parents via email and print group membership lists. Once created, these groups can be reused across other Staff Kiosk and TASS.web programs for activities such as learning objects, forums, calendar events, notifications, and My Saved Lists.
The Budgets program lets staff view budget information for accounts they’re permitted to access, including annual budgets, year‑to‑date spending, committed purchase orders, and remaining budget. It also allows users to drill down into invoices, credits, journals, and outstanding purchase orders, and to print or re‑print purchase orders where enabled.
The Requisitions program lets staff create, submit, edit, clone, approve/reject, cancel and print purchase order requisitions. It also allows users to search for existing requisitions by status (approved, unapproved, cancelled) to manage purchasing workflows.
The Parent Teacher Interviews program lets teachers manage all aspects of their interview conferences, including availability, appointment bookings and edits, notes/attachments, meeting links, emails, printouts, and attendance recording. Available actions change based on the conference status, from simply viewing scheduled dates through to managing bookings during Open/Review stages and entering notes after a Concluded conference.
The Subject Outlines program lets staff add, edit, search and print subject outlines for selected subjects in the current year and semester/term. Subject outlines are detailed subject descriptions that can also be viewed/maintained in TASS.web and optionally printed on Student Academic Reports, but must be entered via different programs if the school uses a unitised timetable.
The Learning Support (Setup) program lets schools configure custom fields, email categories, adjustment categories, signatories, and note categories used on student Support/Class Plans in Staff Kiosk Staff > Learning Support. It controls what information can be recorded, how it’s organised and displayed, and how related communications and reports are stored and printed for each student.