This article is intended to provide additional guidance for District Administrators with the School District Admin role in PA-ETEP when managing users and their roles.  Role management is important to ensuring PA-ETEP users have the appropriate access rights to the tools found within the system.



Basic Roles


There are 5 basic roles for certified educators within PA-ETEP:

  • Teacher
  • NTPE (Non-Teaching Professional Educator) and associated sub-roles

  • NTPE Supervisor* - Used with NTPE Supervisors to allow the supervision of Teachers and non-supervisory NTPEs, Paraeducators, and Support Staff.

  • Building Principal* - This role is given to any Principals and Assistant Principals. Can supervise Teachers, NTPEs, Paraeducators, and Support Staff
  • School District Admin - This role is typically given to the Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, and any other user that needs to manage the district's portal. Can supervise Teachers, NTPEs, Paraeducators, Support Staff, Support Staff Supervisors, NTPE Supervisors, and Principals.  

*If given the building lead designation via the assignments tab, these users can then supervisor their peers. NTPE Supervisors with this designation can supervisor other NTPE supervisors and any support staff supervisors. Principals with this designation can supervisor other Principals and any support staff supervisors.


For those clients that have added the Custom Form module and signed an amendment to include and evaluate their support staff within PA-ETEP, the following basic roles are used.

  • Support Staff (e.g., administrative assistants, custodians, maintenance, food service, etc.)
  • Support Staff Supervisor (e.g., maintenance supervisor, food service supervisor, etc.)


Registered User and Subscriber Roles - The system will always require that users have these two system roles, which are automatically assigned at user creation.  Do not remove these roles.


Note - User roles are managed via the Administration --> User Accounts tab.


Understanding Role Configuration


Some roles within PA-ETEP are stand alone roles and some roles need to be combined with other roles to give the user the correct access.  


Stand Alone Roles

  • Teacher
  • Building Principal
  • CTC Director
  • School District Admin
  • Paraeducator
  • Support Staff
  • Support Staff Supervisor


NTPE Role and Sub-Roles


The NTPE (Non-Teaching Professional Educator) role is always used in conjunction with another sub role.  


NTPE Non-Supervisors - If a user is an NTPE non-supervisor, then the NTPE role must be combined with one of the following NTPE non-supervisory sub roles.    

  • Behavior Specialist

  • Dental Hygienist

  • Elementary School Counselor

  • Home School Visitor

  • Instructional Tech Specialist

  • Mental Health Treatment Specialist

  • Mental Health Worker

  • NTPE Other

  • NTPE TAC

  • Online Educator

  • Physical Occupational Therapist

  • School Nurse

  • School Psychologist

  • Secondary School Counselor

  • Social Worker

  • Speech Language Pathologist


Note - The NTPE Other role for non-supervisors is an NTPE sub-role that can be used when one of the specific NTPE sub-roles do not apply or when the teacher role is deemed inappropriate.



NTPE Supervisors - If a user is an NTPE supervisor, then the NTPE role must be combined with one of the following NTPE supervisory sub roles AND the NTPE Supervisor Role. The NTPE Supervisor role allows an NTPE supervisor to perform evaluations and enter evidence for other non-supervisor NTPEs or Teachers

  • NTPE Other Supervisor

  • Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction

  • Supervisor of Pupil Services

  • Supervisor of Special Education

  • Supervisor of Vocational Education

Note - The NTPE Other Supervisor role can be used when one of the specific NTPE Supervisor roles (Supervisor of Special Education, Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction, Supervisor of Pupil Services, or Supervisor of Vocational Ed) do not apply. The NTPE Other Supervisor role uses the Framework for Leadership.  To learn more click here.


Registration


PA-ETEP includes a self-registration system for teachers and NTPEs.  It is recommended that teachers and non-supervisor NTPE users utilize the registration system to create a new account.  PA-ETEP provides the following registration walkthrough video to help new users navigate the registration process: PA-ETEP User Registration Help Video


Note - Supervisory user accounts (School District Admin, Building Principals, NTPE Supervisors, and Support Staff Supervisors) must be created manually.




Manual Creation of a New User


A new user can be created by the District Admin by visiting the User Accounts page under the Administration menu in the top-right corner of the screen after logging into the site as a District Administrator.

  1. Select the appropriate stand alone role from the left within the Roles column.
  2. Click "Create User" in the top left-hand corner.   Fill in all the fields, and select whether to notify the user of the account.
  3. Authorize the Account once it has been created.  See the  green box  in the screenshot below:
  4. For all NTPE users, access the Roles tab and add the desired NTPE sub role as described above in the Understanding Role Configuration section.

Authorize Users, Edit Roles



Adding or Removing Roles from a User


When in the User Account manager, find your user and click the  blue box  as indicated in the screenshot above to edit a user's roles.

Using the guidelines described in this document, select the role you would like to add to the user from the dropdown located below the Security Roles heading.  Remember, only the Teacher and NTPE role (plus 1 sub role) can be combined, and do not remove the system roles (Registered User and Subscriber).

If you are updating an existing user to a NTPE that previously registered as a teacher, be sure to remove their teacher role.  If the user has past observations as a Teacher, leave the teacher role so the user can access their previous records.

For a video walkthrough of managing users, see the following video:  PA-ETEP Example of how to assign roles to users Video



Building Assignments


Each user must also be assigned to a building, except in the case of the District Admin who has access to supervise all buildings and users.  Typically, a district will create a building for each or their physical buildings and an Archived Building as a holding place for individuals that have left the district.  Many districts also create a building for supervisors within Central Administration.  In addition to these buildings, if a client has added the Custom Form module and signed an amendment to add and evaluate their support staff within PA-ETEP, then they may want to create buildings or groupings for the various support staff (i.e., administrative assistants, custodians, food service, maintenance, etc.).


Buildings are added to PA-ETEP under the Administration --> Buildings tab.


Users are assigned to buildings under the Administration --> Assignments tab.  To learn more, see Assigning/Removing a User to a Building