Updating your Personal Account Details, Notifications & Preferences (Admin/Teacher)

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Select your Profile Picture in the top right, then Manage Your Profile > Edit Profile to change your name, email, photo and password. Use Notification Preferences in your profile to choose notifications and digests, and Profile Photo > Personalisation to change your theme.

For admins and teachers: update your profile, password, roles, theme, notifications and digests.

Screenshot: the profile page opened from Manage Your Profile
Where to find it: Profile picture (top right) > Manage Your Profile
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Change my name, email or photo Edit personal information
Change my password Change your password
Set my programmes, subjects and roles Professional details and roles
Change my theme, landing page or wallpaper Change your account theme
Choose which notifications and emails I get Notification preferences
Set up digest emails Digest notification preferences

Edit personal information

  1. Select your Profile Picture in the top right corner, then Manage Your Profile > Edit Profile.

    Screenshot: the profile menu with Manage Your Profile, Notification Preferences and Personalisation
  2. Update your first and last name, email address, profile photo or password.

    Screenshot: the Edit Profile page

Update your email

Screenshot: the E-mail field
The E-mail field.

Enter your new address in the E-mail box. We send a confirmation email to the new address. Open it to validate your email.

Change your password

  1. On your profile page, select Change Password in the right-hand panel.

    Screenshot: the profile page with Edit Profile and Change Password in the right-hand panel
  2. Enter a strong password with many characters, capital letters, and numbers or symbols. The password only saves when all the boxes turn green.

    Screenshot: Change Password with Your Password, New Password and Confirm New Password

If you sign in to Faria products through the Accounts Portal, manage your password at https://accounts.faria.org.

Professional details and roles

Screenshot: Professional Details with programmes, subjects and roles
Professional Details with programmes, subjects and roles.

On your profile page, select Edit next to Professional Details to set the programmes and subjects you teach and your school roles.

These settings do not give access rights. They filter the tutorials you see in the Help tab when signed in to ManageBac+.

My Workspace > Key Contacts

Screenshot: Key Contacts in My Workspace
Key Contacts in My Workspace.
  • Users with the Principal role are shown to all students and parents under Key Contacts.
  • Users with a DP/MYP/PYP/CP/AP/IGCSE Coordinator role are shown under Key Contacts to students and parents in that programme.

Change your account theme

Screenshot: Personalisation in the profile menu
Personalisation in the profile menu.

Go to Profile Photo > Personalisation to change your theme, landing page and wallpaper.

The default theme is dark blue or a theme chosen by your school. Administrators can reset all users' custom themes to the school colour theme.

Notification preferences

Your notifications are under the bell icon in the top right corner, next to your name.

Screenshot: the notifications bell icon
The notifications bell icon.
  1. In your user profile, select Notification Preferences.

    Screenshot: the Notification Preferences page
  2. For each feature, choose how you want to be notified:

    • Message Notifications: sent to your ManageBac+ notifications area under the bell icon.
    • E-mails: sent to the email address on your ManageBac+ account.
    • Mobile Notifications: sent to your mobile device if you have downloaded the ManageBac+ app.
  3. Select Save Preferences.

    Screenshot: the Save Preferences button

Digest notification preferences

For each digest, select Web Notification or E-Mail and the interval you want. These digests are available to admin and teacher users.

Coursework Submission Digest

Screenshot: Coursework Submission Digest settings
Coursework Submission Digest settings.

A daily summary of students who have missed coursework submissions. It tracks all tasks with Dropbox or Google coursework submissions enabled. After a task deadline passes, every student who has not submitted is included.

Weekly Behaviour & Discipline Digest

Screenshot: Weekly Behaviour and Discipline Digest settings
Weekly Behaviour and Discipline Digest settings.

A weekly summary of students who received behaviour notes in the past week. It tracks behaviour notes for your homeroom students, for a selected academic term only. It is only available as a weekly digest.

  • Exceptional: students with three or more positive behaviour notes.
  • At-risk: students with three or more negative behaviour notes.

Curriculum Digest

Screenshot: Curriculum Digest settings
Curriculum Digest settings.

A weekly summary for teachers and administrators of units created in the past week. It only includes classes you are a member of.

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