How to Add Participants

Use the steps below to populate the Participants portion of an incident. See the Appendix for code values.
Use this first set of steps to add a student or staff member who is already defined in PowerSchool.

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. Assign at least one offender per incident.
   Note: If the participant being defined is the victim, select the applicable victim subcode (student, teacher, administrator, etc.). If a victim is defined, the victim subcode must be defined as well. In order to assign more than one role, click the Plus button next to Select Role(s) again.

7. Click Add Participant Attributes.

Use this second set of steps to add a participant who is not defined in PowerSchool (unknown person).

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 and gender fields (if known).

5. Click Add.

6. Choose a role from the Select Role(s) pop-up menu. Assign at least one offender per incident. If a victim is defined, the victim subcode must be defined as well. In order to assign more than one role, click the Plus button next to Select Role(s) again.

7. Click Add Participant Attributes.

8. Click Submit Incident to save the changes.