By creating teams, you can categorise the teachers on your site, allowing you to analyse coaching and drop-in data by team, as well as across your whole school.
You might choose to group staff by department (History, Geography), year groups (Early Years, Year 1) or Key Stage. Getting this right is an important step in making the data on Steplab work well for you.
1. When your school is first built, Steplab create the teams that you provide. When you then add your users, you are given the option of assigning your staff to specific teams from the start.
If you want to add a new team or edit an existing team, it is very easy. The first thing to do is click "Manage"
2. Click "Manage Teams"
3. This is where you can view, edit or create new teams. A list of existing teams will be displayed here.
How to add a new team and assign teachers to the team
4. Under "Add new team" type the name of your new team and click "Create"
5. If you have already added your teachers to Steplab, you are now able to assign staff to your new team.
First add your team head. This is the person that oversees this team such as a Head of Department, Head of Year or Head of Key Stage.
Team heads: can view lead data, but just for the team they are a team head for.
6. Click "Add members"
7. Next, add the remaining members of the team.
8. Choose whether you want to assign them any additional roles and then click "Add members". You will then have created your team and assigned the relevant teachers to it.
How to edit an existing team
9. Head to "Manage" > "Manage Teams"
10. Click on the "View" icon on the right.
11. This brings up the team's Manage page. Here you are able to view and edit the teams details.
12. You will see you are currently within the Geography page. If you want to get back to "Add and edit teams", you will need to navigate back to the school's Manage page. To do this, click on the orange button.
13. Click "The Steplab School".
14. Click "Manage teams"
15. Once back in "Manage teams", you can also edit a team's details by clicking the "Edit" icon.
16. You are able to edit their group name and the day of the week their coaching cycle should start.
17. Finally, on "Manage teams" you are able to archive a team by clicking on the "Archive" icon.
18. Click "I confirm I want to archive this group, and understand the actions associated with this action."
19. Type "I get it"
20. Click "Archive group"
