Creating Incidents: Incident Builder: Participants

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

To add a student or staff member from PowerSchool, complete the following steps:

1. Click the Plus (+) button next to Participants. The Search for Student, Staff, or Other Participants pop up box appears.
2. Enter criteria for the search and click Search, if searching for either a teacher or student. The Results section is populated with matching participants.
3. Highlight the appropriate participant in the search results and click Add.
4. Choose a role from the Select Role(s) pop-up menu.
   Note: For the role of Victim and Offenders, select a role code description from the pop-up menu.
5. Click the Plus (+) button next to Attributes in the ‘Add Participant Attributes’ box

To add a participant who is not in the PowerSchool system, complete the following steps:

1. Click the Plus (+) button next to Participants. ‘The Search for Student, Staff, or  Other Participants’ pop-up box appears
2. From the popup menu select Others
3. Click on the Create Other option at the bottom of the pop-up box.
4. The Add Other Participate dialog box appears. Populate the First, Middle, Last names, position, age, and gender fields.
5. Click Add.
6. Choose a role from the Select Role(s) pop-up menu.
   Note: For the role of Victim and Offenders, select a role code description from the pop-up menu.
7. Click the Plus (+) button next to Attributes in the ‘Add Participant Attributes’ box