New District Getting Started Best Practices
12_Create Professional Development Course Sessions
Prerequisites Have Course created and active Have timelines NOTE: To create course sessions there must first be a course created. If you have not already created a course go back to the beginning of this document and start there. Create Session To ...
11_Create Professional Development Courses
Create the District Offered Professional Development in Teacher Vitae Prerequisites Have all links ready for Course Know Course detail Create Courses Login to Teacher Vitae Hover over More Click Admin Hover over Manage PD+ Click Manage Course Catalog ...
10_Create Form
Navigate to Form Builder (Video) (Jump to Premade Templates) To get started login and navigate to Form Builder. Log in to Teacher Vitae Hover over “More” Click “Admin” Click on “Manage Forms” Premade Templates (Jump to Navigate to Form Builder) (Jump ...
9_Employee Tags
Employee Tags can be used to group employees for easy filtering. Prerequisites Have discussed and decided a method to filter staff Add Tags Families All Tags must be added to Tag Families. Tag Families must be created before creating Tags Login to ...
8_Evaluation Tags
Evaluation Tags are used to filter questions by type based on the district approved Evaluation Framework. Prerequisites Have a framework that has tagging or create one Add Tags Families All Tags must be added to Tag Families. Tag Families must be ...
7_Evaluation Periods
Evaluation Periods are used to describe at what point of the school year an Observation or Evaluation was conducted. A district can create any custom Evaluation Periods as needed. The most common are Fall, Winter and Spring. Not Specified is the ...
6_Roles
Overview Roles are used to determine what permissions a user has in Teacher Vitae. Some of the roles are district wide roles while other roles are scoped to one or more departments or schools. Prerequisites Read and understand the Roles/Security ...
5_Importing Staff
Importing Overview The Teacher Vitae employee importer will allow you to import employees from a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file. You must be signed in as a Vitae Administrator to perform this operation. Prerequisites OU’s need to be set up in ...
4_Evaluation Years
Before starting a new year with Teacher Vitae it is necessary to add the current year in the system. This will update the school year in all areas of Teacher Vitae. Prerequisites None Log in to Teacher Vitae Hover over More Click Admin Hover over ...
3_Positions
Positions are optional and can be set for employees to add information to Job History in Employee Management. The following instructions will step you through the creation editing and deleting process. Prerequisites Have discussed and decided on what ...
2_Managing Organizational Unit
Organizational Units/School Buildings. All of the district's buildings need to be identified. If a school or building has a separate state ID it needs to be added to the list in the Organizational Units Manage Organization page. This includes the ...
1_New District Best Practices
Overview The following information will assist the district in a smooth and successful Evaluation Year with Teacher Vitae. Some of these things have to be done, some are what we consider to be Best Practices and highly suggested and some are ...