Many members rely on Google Translate to translate the content, so please keep language brief. This is not a moderated feed, so use your general communication and social media etiquette instincts. Content should be related to our school community (i.e., no advertising).

Click here to view video on how to login and create your profile.

First accept the email invite to these groups to view notifications and posts:

• New School SF – school posts
• Your Child’s Grade – grade posts
• Your Child’s Class -(First A, First B, Second A, Second B, etc.) – class posts

To be able to post,  you will need to create your profile with photos. If you sign up with your Facebook account, your Facebook profile picture will be automatically imported. Add your child and partner, so that our community can get to know families. 

You will now receive notifications and be able to view the newsfeed.

You can change the language you receive messages in via “settings.”  Your messages will automatically be translated to other member’s preferred languages.

You can change the frequency of email notifications from settings. Click here to see how.

Iphone users: Download the ios app here. If you select ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS in Settings, you’ll get important announcements immediately pushed to your phone.

Android Users: You’ll need to create a bookmark.  Open your Android browser and go to the page that you want to bookmark. Tap “Menu” and wait for the menu to appear from the bottom of the screen. Select “Add Bookmark.” Enter information about the website so that you’ll remember it.

You can change the frequency of email notifications from settings (upper right corner on web, upper left menu on mobile). Click here to see how.

Use the search feature. Click here to see how.

Here’s how to filter your post view. When on Taproot, you have the option of filtering what posts you’d like to view by group. To do this:  Go to MY COMMUNITY on the left-hand menu bar. Click on the group you want to view (i.e., 1ST GRADE). Once in that group, you’ll see a menu reading “ADULTS/KIDS/POSTS/PHOTOS.”  The menu defaults to “posts”. For the web, touch the People Icon and then the Group (mobile).

Follow posts to override settings so less emails.

Make video.

Make video How to use the right drop down menu on posts to see dashboard, edit, hide, delete, report

App settings on phone.  How to delete posts with right dropdown. How to find responses to post.

Improve -Perhaps you are setting up a camp on the professional days, and want to inform parents and keep existing parents.

• Create groups – do with an announcement
  • Create Excelsior Science group, then post with link for new folks

Sometimes you may wish to continue a conversation off Taproot. To find user emails, check the user’s profile or check the directory on the right list of links available from the web browser.

Go through an Admin (School Leadership, Teachers, Room Parents, and Home School Council Leads) to create Volunteer signup.

Process?

Can email those who respond to an announcement, so don’t have to use directory.

Go through an Admin (School Leadership, Teachers, Room Parents, and Home School Council Leads) who can send an  Announcements to send urgent messages which override a users’ notification settings. Click here to see how.