How to Add Participants
Use the steps below to populate the Participants portion of an incident.
Use this first set of steps to add a student or staff member who is already defined in PowerSchool.
- On the Incident List page, click the ID or title of the incident you'd like to edit.
- Click the Plus (+) button next to Participants. The Search for Student, Staff, or Other Participants dialog appears.
- Enter criteria for the search and click Search. The Results section is populated with matching participants.
- Highlight the appropriate participant in the search results.
- Click Add.
- Click the Plus (+) button next to Attributes.
- Choose the appropriate participant attribute (Disability as defined by Office of Civil Rights 504, Injury, Relationship to School, SPED Code, Type of Employment) from the Attributes pop-up menu, if applicable. Otherwise, click the Minus (-) button to remove the Attributes pop-up menu.
- Based on the participant attribute code, a subcode pop-up menu may appear. Choose the appropriate participant attribute subcode from the pop-up menu.
- Choose a role from the Select Role(s) pop-up menu. There must be at least one Offender and one Reporter per incident. In order to assign more than one role, click the Plus (+) button next to Select Role(s) again.
- Click Add Participant Attributes.
Use this second set of steps to add a participant who is not defined in PowerSchool.
- On the Incident List page, click the ID or title of the incident you'd like to edit.
- Click the Plus (+) button next to Participants. The Search for Student, Staff, or Other Participants dialog appears.
- Click Create Other.
- Populate the First, Middle, Last names and gender fields.
- Click Add.
- Click the Plus (+) button next to Attributes.
- Choose the appropriate participant attribute (Disability as defined by Office of Civil Rights 504, Injury, Relationship to School, SPED Code, Type of Employment) from the Attributes pop-up menu, if applicable. Otherwise, click the Minus (-) button to remove the Attributes pop-up menu.
- Based on the participant attribute code, a subcode pop-up menu may appear. Choose the appropriate participant attribute subcode from the pop-up menu.
- Choose a role from the Select Role(s) pop-up menu. There must be at least one Offender and one Reporter per incident. In order to assign more than one role, click the Plus (+) button next to Select Role(s) again.
- Click Add Participant Attributes.
- Click Submit Incident to save the changes.