Profile Notices
Schools use profile notices to alert staff and faculty to sensitive information about students.
We recommend your school update its Policies and procedures guide to include guidance about how you plan to use notices.
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Recent death in the family.
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May bring child to class due to lack of childcare.
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Do not provide information to estranged parents.
Tip: For information about Hold notices, such as those that appear as a banner above the header of a student record when a student is locked out due to unpaid tuition, see Manage holds.
Users with the contact card manager or platform manager role can create profile notices.
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Select Core.
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Select People finder.
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In the Type a name field, enter and select the name of the individual you want to work with. The selected individual's profile page appears.
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Select Contact card.
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In the Profile notices tile, select Add profile notice.
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Enter a message for the notice. Consider indicating what to look out for, actions to take or avoid, and who to contact about the situation.
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Select Save. The date of creation appears next to the notice.
Tip: You can also do this from a user list. From the list, select a name. The user record appears in a "fly-out". If the user has a profile notice, an alert appears in the header at the top of the profile.
Users with the contact card manager or platform manager role can configure profile notices.
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Select Core.
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Select People finder.
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In the Type a name field, enter and select the name of the individual you want to work with. The selected individual's profile page appears.
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Select Contact card.
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In the Profile notices tile, locate the notice. Select the ellipsis (...) and then select Edit profile notice.
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Update the a message for the notice. Consider indicating what to look out for, actions to take or avoid, and who to contact about the situation.
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Select Save. The date of modification appears next to the notice.
Tip: You can also do this from a user list. From the list, select a name. The user record appears in a "fly-out". If the user has a profile notice, an alert appears in the header at the top of the profile.
Users with the contact card manager or platform manager role can configure profile notices.
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Select Core.
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Select People finder.
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In the Type a name field, enter and select the name of the individual you want to work with. The selected individual's profile page appears.
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Select Contact card.
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In the Profile notices tile, locate the notice. Select the ellipsis (...) and then select Delete profile notice. The notice is removed.
Tip: You can also do this from a user list. From the list, select a name. The user record appears in a "fly-out". If the user has a profile notice, an alert appears in the header at the top of the profile.
Admins can view profile notices by default.
For other role combinations, a platform manager determines which profile information is visible (published) when the user's contact card is accessed. For example, determine whether faculty, athletic coaches and dorm supervisors should see profile notices on student records. To learn how, review how to configure Profile publish access.
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Select Core.
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Select People finder.
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In the Type a name field, enter and select the name of the individual you want to work with. The selected individual's profile page appears.
If the user has a profile notice, an alert appears in the header at the top of the profile.
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Select Contact card.
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Existing notices appear n the Profile notices tile.
Tip: You can also do this from a user list. From the list, select a name. The user record appears in a "fly-out". If the user has a profile notice, an alert appears in the header at the top of the profile.
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From the class or community group page, select Roster.
If the user has a profile notice, an alert appears in corresponding tile of the roster.
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ellipsis (...) and then select View profile notices.
A list of notices appears.
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In the Type a name field, enter and select the name of the individual you want to work with. The selected individual's profile page appears.
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Select Contact card.
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In the Profile notices tile, locate the notice. Select the ellipsis (...) and then select Delete profile notice. The notice is removed.
Tip: For information about managing rosters, see course rosters and athletic rosters.
Tip: List managers can also view profile notices in Students lists and Users lists.
Warning: For health data, we recommend using Medical instead of profile notices.