Creating Incidents: Incident Builder - Participants

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Use the steps below to populate the Participants portion of an incident. See the Appendix for code values.

Adding Student and Staff Participants

Use these steps to add a student or staff member who is in the PowerSchool system.

1. On the Incident List page, click the ID or title of the incident you'd like to edit.
2. Click the Plus (+) button next to Participants. The Search for Student, Staff, or Other Participants dialog appears.
3. Enter criteria for the search and click Search. The Results section is populated with matching participants.
4. Highlight the appropriate participant in the search results.
5. Click Add.
6. Choose a role from the Select Role(s) pop-up menu. There must be at least one student Offender in order for the incident to be reported.
7. Click the Plus (+) button under Attributes. A Participant Attribute code pop-up menu appears.
8. Choose the appropriate Participant Attribute code from the menu and then choose the appropriate subcode from the subsequent menu, if applicable. The attributes below "Behavior Modification" apply to Victims of the incident. The other attributes apply to Offenders of the incident.
9. Click Add Participant Attributes.
10. Click Submit Incident to save the changes.

Adding Other Participants

Use these steps to add a participant who is not in the PowerSchool system.

1. On the Incident List page, click the ID or title of the incident you'd like to edit.
2. Click the Plus (+) button next to Participants. The Search for Student, Staff, or Other Participants dialog appears.
3. Click Create Other.
4. Populate the First, Middle, Last names, position, age, and gender fields. This information should be defined, if known, for both Offenders and Victims, but is not needed for Witnesses. Reporters do not need to be defined.
5. Click Add.
6. Choose a role from the Select Role(s) pop-up menu. There must be at least one Offender per incident.
7. Click the Plus (+) button under Attributes. A Participant Attribute code pop-up menu appears.
8. Choose the appropriate Participant Attribute code from the menu and then choose the appropriate subcode from the subsequent menu, if applicable. The attributes below "Behavior Modification" apply to Victims of the incident. The other attributes apply to Offenders of the incident. The "Non-Student/Non-Staff Race" attribute must be defined, if possible for "other" participants.
9. Click Add Participant Attributes.
10. Click Submit Incident to save the changes.