This page highlights some of the recent changes made to the TracCloud platform, and how you can utilize them on your own instance. A list of past changes and a full changelog can be found in the tabs above.
If you have any questions about these changes, feel free to reach out to us on our helpdesk.
The TracCloud schedule is where you can create and manage your consultant’s availabilities. The availability blocks created here will appear when staff or students are searching for appointments based on the criteria chosen during the search process. This article will walk you through how to utilize these features, from creating availabilities to booking appointments.
The schedule can be reached by clicking the “Schedule” button at the top of the dashboard. Click the "Expand" options below to view more information on different parts of the schedule management process.
Navigating the Staff Schedule
Navigating the staff schedule is a crucial part of managing your Trac System if you host appointment-based sessions. This is where you can create new availabilities/time slots, review past and future appointments, and even book new appointments on behalf of students.
Starting at the top of the schedule view, you'll find options for changing your date range and selected consultant. The date field can be clicked on so that you can select a specific day or week (depending on your current consultant selection), and you can cycle through past/upcoming dates using the arrow buttons. The "Today" button will always take you to the current date.
Following this is the consultant menu. Your consultants will be grouped by the centers they're assigned to (or profiles then centers for systems with 5+ profiles). Selecting an individual consultant will display their schedule for the selected week. You can alternatively select "All of this center" to view all of your consultant schedules for a single day. This option also allows you to hide unavailable consultants with a checkbox along the schedule settings bar. You can also choose your selected center, which applies to both the "all of this center" view as well as individual consultants who work across multiple centers.
Lastly, you will find your Schedule Display Options. These can be used to change your visible time on the calendar, as well as hide certain record types. Changes made here will only affect your own account, and only in your current browser session. The icon indicates whether or not you have the ability to modify availabilities, and the icon indicates the same for appointments. Consultant accounts can also see a button, which will return them to their personal calendar.
Creating Availabilities / 1-on-1, group, and drop-in
After selecting the consultant you want to create an availability for, click-and-drag to begin creating an availability block in an open space on their schedule. Before you let go of left-click, tapping the 'a' key on your keyboard will cycle through different options. Adhoc appointments (white), reserve blocks (red), and standard availabilities (green). Standard availability is what you'll want to select to create a new time slot on your consultant schedule.
Once you release left-click, you will be brought to the availability entry window where you can configure the time slot.
In the top-right corner of the availability, you can choose the block type. Availability is a regular availability linked to a single center. A Stacked Availability can be linked to multiple centers, essentially allowing you to create multiple overlapping availabilities at the same time. When stacking an availability, you can choose which fields are ignored and not shared between stacked blocks. For example, you can ignore the Meeting Type field so that the Learning Center block can be online and the Writing Center block can be in-person, otherwise non-ignored options will be shared across the entire stack. Reserve Blocks are covered further into this article.
Subject and Reason allow you to restrict what this time slot can be utilized for. If left blank, which is a typical choice, the consultant and center course lists will be used. If you wanted to restrict the availability to a specific subject, you can select it from the search menu, or use a wildcard entry (such as "MATH*" for all sections that start with "MATH) or a course list if your preferences allow it.
The following option, Meeting Type, determines if this is a remote/online availability, in-person, or asynchronous. The latter option will be covered in the next portion of this wiki article. Depending on which option you choose, additional Location fields will be made available. In-person availabilities may be assigned to a specific room or building number, while online sessions will be assigned a specific online invite link. That link can be the consultant's specific invite link from their account, a breakout room, or a new invite can be copy/pasted directly into the "Online URL" field. Students can join these online appointments from their dashboard, as TracCloud will provide a hyperlink to them at the appointment start time.
The Max Students option determines the availability type. 0 would be a drop-in event, 1 is a one-on-one meeting, and 2 or more would be a multi-person group.
The date range and days of the week fields allow you to determine how this availability will repeat going forward. By default, just the one day you created the block on will be active, however, you can push the “To” date farther out and deselect the days of the week that this availability shouldn’t be active for to create a schedule such as “Every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday until May 30th.”
Increments and Breaks control how the block is split into different times. If you create a 5-hour block on the schedule, setting the Increments to 60 minutes will split that into 5 1-hour blocks instead. Breaks allow you to schedule breaks for your consultants in-between appointments. For example, you could set Increments to 55 and Breaks to 5 to give your consultants 5-minute breaks in between their 55-minute appointments.
Override Missed Status allows you to choose a different status for students that miss this appointment compared to your profile configuration. Only allow/Block these on the other hand allows you to restrict who is allowed to see this appointment based on student lists. If no lists are chosen in either field, there will be no restriction.
Overrides will show you gaps in the series. For example, if you have an availability that repeats for some time, but a block in that series is removed (maybe the consultant isn't available that week or their time changes on that one day), that will appear as an override date for the rest of the series. An availability can also be manually overridden if you want to make changes to it independently from the rest of the series by clicking the button as seen in the screenshot below.
Documents can be uploaded to the availability, which will automatically be carried through to booked appointments so that students can access them.
Notes is an internal notes field for staff to share information about this availability with each other. This field is not shown to students, and can be used for any purpose.
Group sessions also offer a couple of unique settings for your availabilities, detailed below.
Group Slot Restriction
This determines what subject students can book compared to the first student's selection. Any Subject means that one student could book for MATH100, and another for ACTG100, any subject is allowed (within consultant and center specialties). Same Subject means that one student could book for MATH100 01, and another for MATH100 02, but not for MATH200. Both Same Subject and Instructor and Same Section can be used to be more strict as needed.
First booked appt determines online / in person for that time slot on that day
Asynchronous is an additional meeting type available for availabilities. These are created like normal availabilities, but appointments are held asynchronously. A text chat will be provided for a student and consultant to communicate with each other, and documents can be uploaded to the appointment for each user to download and review. This functionality must be enabled in your profile before it can be used, go to Other > Other Options > Profiles > [Your Profile] > Prefs > Scheduling > Other Schedule Options > Allow availabilities to be asynchronous
This meeting type can be selected just like In-Person or Online, and can be combined with those meeting types to give students more choices when booking appointments.
Asynchronous availabilities are shown on the schedule view as a purple box with a icon. Students will see the same color in their availability searches.
After the appointment has been booked, you will notice a couple differences compared to standard appointments. The Status field now only contains "In Progress" and "Concluded" plus a missed and canceled status, as standard synchronous statuses no longer apply. An additional Messages tab has also been added, which will contain all communications between the consultant and the student.
Students and consultants will primarily be communicating and managing the session from the dashboard. This will display all "In Progress" asynchronous sessions that you (a consultant or student) are a part of. Clicking "Show Previous Concluded" will let you review past asynchronous sessions, download documents, or even reopen the session if needed. The "Asynchronous Communications" phrasing in the title of this widget can be overridden in your system preferences.
Clicking on one of these entries will open the appointment record with two tabs available. Appointment Information contains the current status of the appointment, any custom fields, as well as uploaded documents. Messages (pictured below) shows the current discussion between the student and their consultant, along with a log of document uploads/deletions. Either party can conclude or reopen the session at any time with the button in the lower-right corner.
Reserve Blocks / Prevent booking and cancel appointments
Reserve Blocks can be created over existing availabilities and appointments, to prevent booking and automatically cancel conflicting appointments. This is typically used for holiday breaks, sick days, or to block off specific times of the day when a consultant will not be available.
There are two ways to create a reserve block. You can click-and-drag an availability as usual, then tap the 'a' key to cycle to a reserve block, or create a normal availability then change the block type to "Reserve Block" in the top-right corner.
Once you've started creating your reserve block, you will find a few options that don't exist in normal availabilities which have been detailed below.
All Staff this Center is used to create a block for all consultants across your selected center, rather than exclusively for the consultant account that you had originally selected.
All Staff for All Centers goes beyond what the "this center" option does, placing this block on all consultant schedules across all centers.
Show on schedule as meeting will change how this block visually displays on the schedule and will be shared to the consultant's calendar via the "Calendar URL" button on the staff dashboard. This does not have an effect on blocking availabilities or cancelling appointments, that functionality will be the same regardless of if this is checked.
Do NOT Cancel any intersecting appointments will prevent overlapping/conflicting appointments from being automatically canceled when this block is saved, which is otherwise the default behavior of reserve blocks.
Description can be used to record why this reserve block exits. For example, "Time off for holiday."
Status will apply to all overlapping appointments. For example, "Canceled - Holiday" to differentiate these cancellations when running reports. If this field is left blank, a generic "Canceled" status will be used instead.
The rest of the reserve block is created like a standard availability, set the time and days that should be blocked, then click "Save" to add it to the schedule.
Booking Appointments
Appointments can be booked from the staff schedule directly, or from the dashboard. The former can only be accessed by staff, while the latter can be accessed by both students and staff if their permission group allows it. Regardless of which option is used, emails will be sent out as usual and the records will appear in reports as expected.
Staff Schedule
From the staff schedule, there are 3 ways to book an appointment for a students, depending on what's easiest for that particular session.
Ad-hoc appointments can be created by clicking-and-dragging (as if you're creating an availability), but before you let go of left-click, tap the 'a' key on your keyboard to cycle to the appointment option (white). After you let go, TracCloud will prompt you to choose a student before taking you to the appointment entry screen (detailed further into this article).
Booking availabilities can be accomplished by clicking on the start time of the availability (group or 1-on-1) and searching for a student. After making your selection, you will be brought to the appointment entry screen. You can also click on the icon to set a custom start and end time for your appointment.
Dashboard
Both students and staff have access to the dashboard appointment search widget. The primary difference (aside from the appointment entry page itself) is that staff will need to select a student in the widget, while students do not since they're already logged in on their browser. The exact options available in this widget will be based on your profile preferences and search availability widget settings.
If “Choose a Date & Center” is selected (or was made the default for your system), an additional window will appear after clicking "Search" to choose a center/profile, as well as the specific date of the appointment you want to book. The phrasing of text shown here is based on your search availability widget settings.
After searching, you will be brought to a results screen such as this, allowing you to view the time of the appointment, which center it takes place in, whether it’s a Group, 1 on 1, Drop-In, or Asynchronous time slot, and the consultant. The results will load one day at a time, more results can be loaded by clicking the “Load more for [the following day]” at the bottom of the screen. Clicking on the time slot will open the appointment entry window where you can book that time slot.
Appointment Entry
After clicking on the availability that you want to book, the appointment entry screen where you can fill out custom fields and confirm your appointment will differ depending on if you're logged in as a staff or a student.
The student view is very restricted. The student can only edit fields that your system (or individual availability, depending on the field) allows to be edited. Student custom fields, meeting type, recurring status, and duration.
The staff perspective shows all appointment fields, including status.
Group rosters are exclusive to group availabilities, where multiple appointments need to be viewed or managed at once. This utility offers several unique features compared to the 1-on-1 appointments seen directly on the staff schedule. To open the group roster, you can click on the 0 / 0 icon on the availability block.
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If a group is locked by a staff member, it cannot be found or booked in availability searches. This feature can be used if you want to reserve the remaining slots or to prevent further appointments at this time to provide more attention to a smaller roster. Staff can still book new appointments from the roster view even if it's locked.
Documents
If a document is uploaded to the group roster, it will be linked to all appointments at that time. Students will be able to view this document in their appointment record if they have access to the chosen document type.
Roster List
In the center of the group roster, you'll see a list of students who have appointments at this time. This includes their name, reason, and subject.
/ / / indicates the status of the appointment, and can be clicked to quickly change the status to a different value.
Not logged in / Logged in at can be clicked to start or conclude the student's visit, similar to the functionality of the log listing. This feature can be disabled in system preferences (General Appointment Settings) if preferred.
will open the full appointment record for viewing or editing.
can be clicked to send a text message to the student if they're opted into SMS alerts. Requires the TextAlerts module.
/ can be clicked to select the appointments. This can be used alongside the "Send Email to" and "Add Notes to" options to only affect the selected records.
Add to Roster
Click this button to search for and immediately book an appointment for a student.
Add Multiple
This will open a new window where you can add students as a batch process. Search for and select students based on enrollments, name, or a list of IDs. When searching by enrollments, students will only appear if the consultant is assigned to that course in their course list.
Mark All as Attended
This will mark all appointments in the roster that don't already have a status as attended.
Send Email to
Send an email to students in the roster. You can choose to send the email to all students, cancels, misses, attended appointments, or selected appointments.
Add Notes to
This option can be used to enter notes in attended visits or appointment custom fields, either based on status or the selected appointments.
Send Notes
This option may be labelled differently depending on your profile preferences. Click this button to initiate the Send Visits Notes to email for attended appointments.
Moving Appointments
If an appointments needs to be moved, you can either cancel the appointment and book it at a new time, or you can move the appointment record. There are two ways to accomplish this, both will send a new confirmation email to the student and consultant informing them of this change.
1. Click-and-drag the top-left corner of an appointment to move it to another time slot on the visible schedule. This can be done from an individual staff schedule or from the "all of this center" view. The latter also allows you to move an appointment to another consultant's schedule.
2. The "Move" button within each appointment can be used to initiate an appointment search, just like on the dashboard. Click on the new time slot you want to book and save your changes.
Availability Blocks Listing
The Availability Listing can be viewed by going to Other > Listings > Availability Blocks. Access to this listing can be provided by adding "Availability Blocks" table access to a permission group under 'Admin / Modules'. This listing contains all availability records that you have permission to view, including the ability to make batch changes or simply search for and few individual records. The icon shows if the availability is a reserve block or not.
Each column of information displayed has a clickable header that will sort the listing accordingly. Clicking once sorts ascending, a second click will sort descending.
Using the Search Bar on this screen, we can easily perform quick searches to find specific availability records. Right clicking in the search bar (shown below) will provide a list of availability fields to search by, click any of these to auto-fill the search bar.
Example Searches:
Find an availability by a single value, such as the consultant's name.
Staff.LastFirst="Smith, Dave"
Search multiple fields at once, separate your searches by a space. If a value you're searching for contains a space, make sure to surround the value with quotes like with the consultant's name below.
Date searches such as this are required to be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD.
#sql:FromDate#=2024-04-16
You can also search for records where a date is greater than or less than a value like this.
#sql:FromDate#=<2024-04-16
You can also search by a date range with ...
#sql:FromDate#=2024-04-01...2024-04-30
You can search by recurring type like this. Example values would be "Daily", "Optional Daily", "Optional Daily Chosen", "Weekly", etc.
AvailBlocks.RecurType="Optional Bi-Weekly"
Hamburger Menu
Every listing page in the Trac System features a hamburger menu with utilities to search for or interact with your list of records. Some of these options are specific to a certain listing/record-type, others are shared. The following list includes definitions for the hamburger menu options available on this listing, and how they can be utilized.
List All
This option will show all records on the current listing. Some listings have an additional toggle for only showing "Active" records, such as Students and Registrations, which will still override a "List All" search if checked.
Power Search
This option provides a simple but powerful search utility to find the records you need. String together multiple searches, adding or removing results for each. Use Search Symbols to include ranges of data, and Save Searches for later use if needed. The search term 'blankornull' can be used to find all records with a value of nothing ("") or null ().
This utility takes your selection of records, finds the related records, and takes you to that listing with the resulting records. For example, on the Registration listing, you can "Show these Students" to display the student records for the registrations that you were viewing.
Find/Merge Duplicates
These utilities can be used to cleanup duplicate records in your Trac System. We highly recommend reaching out to Redrock Support directly for assistance in cleaning up this data.
Find by Values
This utility can be used to search one field for multiple values. If you have a spreadsheet containing a list of student IDs, this is an easy way to pull up the same list of students in TracCloud by copying the ID column into this search field.
Change Field Values
This utility allows you to make modifications in to your records in bulk. Similar to the Merge Duplicates utility, we highly recommend coordinating with Redrock Support directly on this setting.
Allows you to print the contents of the current listing, by extension this also allows you to export the current list as a PDF file.
Troubleshooting Availability Searches
If you've created a new availability for one of your Consultants and it's not showing up as expected when performing a search for appointment times, there are a few possible causes. This portion of the wiki outlines these possibilities, ordered from most to least likely based on what we at Redrock have experienced working with campuses directly.
1. Center and Consultant Course Lists
The most common cause when an availability isn't appearing in search results is misconfigured Course Lists. Both your Consultant and your Center need to be assigned to the subject you're searching for (unless your Center or Reason is set to ignore Consultant Specialties). Make sure you Process Specialties (Step 2) after applying any changes.
Consultant Course List: Other > Listings > Staff > [Your Staff] > Course List of Specialties Center Course List:Other > Other Options > Profiles > [Your Profile] > Centers > Course List for this Center
A complete list of Course Lists can also be found by simply going to: Other > Listings > Course Lists
This is always recommended after applying changes to Course Lists, but it may also be the case that the specific section you searched for was imported after you created the Course List for your Center/Consultant, and a Course List refresh alone may resolve this issue. We can setup an automated process to Process Specialties daily if this occurs often, reach out to us using the 'Support' tab above for more information.
3. Reason Assignments
Similar to ensuring that your courses are assigned to the correct Consultant and Center, the same applies for Reasons. This step only applies if you're using Reason as a search criteria.
For Consultants, go to Other > Listings > Staff > [Your Staff] > Reason Specialties For Centers, go to Other > Other Options > Profiles > [Your Profile] > Centers > [Your Center] > Active Reasons
If your availability is assigned to the wrong subject or reason, this can cause it to be unintentionally filtered out of results. Make sure the value entered here is correct, especially if you're using wildcards. If these are blank (i.e., available for all specialties), you can skip this troubleshooting step.
Schedule > [Consultant] > Availability
5. Profile Time Restrictions
If your availability is 60 minutes long, but your profile only allows for a maximum of 50-minute appointments, this can unexpectedly filter out availabilities if you haven't updated your profile preferences to match this new limit. The relevant options to check here are Schedule no sooner than and no later than, ensure that you're searching within an allowed range. As well as Minimum and Maximum Appointment Duration, make sure your availability is within the limits defined by your profile.
Other > Other Options > Profiles > [Your Profile] > Prefs > Scheduling > Time Restrictions
In the event that you aren't searching for both Reason and Subject, and the previous steps haven't resolved your issue, it's worth double-checking to make sure your Profile hasn't been mistakenly set to require a Subject/Reason to show availabilities. Make sure the highlighted settings match the search you're performing on the dashboard.
Other > Other Options > Profiles > [Your Profile] > Prefs > Scheduling > Special Fields
If your campus utilizes the Skills/Accommodations feature, with 'Excluded when not chosen' enabled, make sure your consultant/availability is assigned to that Skill/Accommodation.
Consultants: Other > Listings > Staff > [Staff Account] > Special Needs/Skills/Accommodations
Availabilities: Schedule > [Availability] > Special Needs > Special Needs/Skills/Accommodations
Still having trouble getting the results you expect? Reach out to us using the 'Support' tab at the very top of this page, we'd be happy to help.
Emails - Appointment confirmations, reminders, etc.
2023-04-25 | Catching up on the past few weeks of updates
You may have noticed a delay since the last "What's New" article, but that's not because new features haven't been getting added, it's the exact opposite in fact! We're working on updating a large portion of the TracCloud wiki to reflect the new options and capabilities of the system, as well as to provide more in-depth guides where needed. That's still in progress, but this article is to catch up on some of the features that we haven't had the chance to highlight yet. (Asynchronous availabilities are coming soon as well!)
Use "Students.CustomData/BIOConfirmed=1" to find students who have confirmed their bio, and "Students.CustomData/BIOConfirmed=#1" to find students who haven't.
2023-04-06: "Visit" steps in Success Plans can now be configured with a minimum duration.
2023-04-06: Student birthdate has been added as a field to select in Student Confirm Bio.
A new listing menu has been added for SAGE referrals. This can be added to your permission group by going to Other > Other Options > Groups > [The group you want to modify] > Admin/Modules > Table Access, then add Referrals to that list and save.
2023-03-24: Custom views have been added to the Appointments Listing
In the Number of Days to Export field, you can now enter a value such as "14...5" to export the last 14 days of data up to the last 5 days. Some campuses may require more time to clean up recent records before including them in the export, which was the purpose of this addition.
2023-03-21: "Remember Student" option in Batch Entry
Depending on when you're reading this, the wiki link above might not have an updated screenshot, but you'll see the new "Remember Student" option right next to "Remember Notes" on the Batch Entry tab. This allows you to repeatedly create visits for the same student account. E.g., a generic student account for prospective students.
2023-03-21: SAML Duel Tenant Support
If your campus requires this, reach out to our helpdesk using the support links at the top of your screen and we'd be happy to help you set it up.
The TracCloud schedule is where you can create and manage your consultant’s availabilities. The availability blocks created here will appear when staff or students are searching for appointments based on the criteria chosen during the search process. This article will walk you through how to utilize these features, from creating availabilities to booking appointments.
The schedule can be reached by clicking the “Schedule” button at the top of the dashboard. Click the "Expand" options below to view more information on different parts of the schedule management process.
Navigating the Staff Schedule
Navigating the staff schedule is a crucial part of managing your Trac System if you host appointment-based sessions. This is where you can create new availabilities/time slots, review past and future appointments, and even book new appointments on behalf of students.
Starting at the top of the schedule view, you'll find options for changing your date range and selected consultant. The date field can be clicked on so that you can select a specific day or week (depending on your current consultant selection), and you can cycle through past/upcoming dates using the arrow buttons. The "Today" button will always take you to the current date.
Following this is the consultant menu. Your consultants will be grouped by the centers they're assigned to (or profiles then centers for systems with 5+ profiles). Selecting an individual consultant will display their schedule for the selected week. You can alternatively select "All of this center" to view all of your consultant schedules for a single day. This option also allows you to hide unavailable consultants with a checkbox along the schedule settings bar. You can also choose your selected center, which applies to both the "all of this center" view as well as individual consultants who work across multiple centers.
Lastly, you will find your Schedule Display Options. These can be used to change your visible time on the calendar, as well as hide certain record types. Changes made here will only affect your own account, and only in your current browser session. The icon indicates whether or not you have the ability to modify availabilities, and the icon indicates the same for appointments. Consultant accounts can also see a button, which will return them to their personal calendar.
Creating Availabilities / 1-on-1, group, and drop-in
After selecting the consultant you want to create an availability for, click-and-drag to begin creating an availability block in an open space on their schedule. Before you let go of left-click, tapping the 'a' key on your keyboard will cycle through different options. Adhoc appointments (white), reserve blocks (red), and standard availabilities (green). Standard availability is what you'll want to select to create a new time slot on your consultant schedule.
Once you release left-click, you will be brought to the availability entry window where you can configure the time slot.
In the top-right corner of the availability, you can choose the block type. Availability is a regular availability linked to a single center. A Stacked Availability can be linked to multiple centers, essentially allowing you to create multiple overlapping availabilities at the same time. When stacking an availability, you can choose which fields are ignored and not shared between stacked blocks. For example, you can ignore the Meeting Type field so that the Learning Center block can be online and the Writing Center block can be in-person, otherwise non-ignored options will be shared across the entire stack. Reserve Blocks are covered further into this article.
Subject and Reason allow you to restrict what this time slot can be utilized for. If left blank, which is a typical choice, the consultant and center course lists will be used. If you wanted to restrict the availability to a specific subject, you can select it from the search menu, or use a wildcard entry (such as "MATH*" for all sections that start with "MATH) or a course list if your preferences allow it.
The following option, Meeting Type, determines if this is a remote/online availability, in-person, or asynchronous. The latter option will be covered in the next portion of this wiki article. Depending on which option you choose, additional Location fields will be made available. In-person availabilities may be assigned to a specific room or building number, while online sessions will be assigned a specific online invite link. That link can be the consultant's specific invite link from their account, a breakout room, or a new invite can be copy/pasted directly into the "Online URL" field. Students can join these online appointments from their dashboard, as TracCloud will provide a hyperlink to them at the appointment start time.
The Max Students option determines the availability type. 0 would be a drop-in event, 1 is a one-on-one meeting, and 2 or more would be a multi-person group.
The date range and days of the week fields allow you to determine how this availability will repeat going forward. By default, just the one day you created the block on will be active, however, you can push the “To” date farther out and deselect the days of the week that this availability shouldn’t be active for to create a schedule such as “Every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday until May 30th.”
Increments and Breaks control how the block is split into different times. If you create a 5-hour block on the schedule, setting the Increments to 60 minutes will split that into 5 1-hour blocks instead. Breaks allow you to schedule breaks for your consultants in-between appointments. For example, you could set Increments to 55 and Breaks to 5 to give your consultants 5-minute breaks in between their 55-minute appointments.
Override Missed Status allows you to choose a different status for students that miss this appointment compared to your profile configuration. Only allow/Block these on the other hand allows you to restrict who is allowed to see this appointment based on student lists. If no lists are chosen in either field, there will be no restriction.
Overrides will show you gaps in the series. For example, if you have an availability that repeats for some time, but a block in that series is removed (maybe the consultant isn't available that week or their time changes on that one day), that will appear as an override date for the rest of the series. An availability can also be manually overridden if you want to make changes to it independently from the rest of the series by clicking the button as seen in the screenshot below.
Documents can be uploaded to the availability, which will automatically be carried through to booked appointments so that students can access them.
Notes is an internal notes field for staff to share information about this availability with each other. This field is not shown to students, and can be used for any purpose.
Group sessions also offer a couple of unique settings for your availabilities, detailed below.
Group Slot Restriction
This determines what subject students can book compared to the first student's selection. Any Subject means that one student could book for MATH100, and another for ACTG100, any subject is allowed (within consultant and center specialties). Same Subject means that one student could book for MATH100 01, and another for MATH100 02, but not for MATH200. Both Same Subject and Instructor and Same Section can be used to be more strict as needed.
First booked appt determines online / in person for that time slot on that day
Asynchronous is an additional meeting type available for availabilities. These are created like normal availabilities, but appointments are held asynchronously. A text chat will be provided for a student and consultant to communicate with each other, and documents can be uploaded to the appointment for each user to download and review. This functionality must be enabled in your profile before it can be used, go to Other > Other Options > Profiles > [Your Profile] > Prefs > Scheduling > Other Schedule Options > Allow availabilities to be asynchronous
This meeting type can be selected just like In-Person or Online, and can be combined with those meeting types to give students more choices when booking appointments.
Asynchronous availabilities are shown on the schedule view as a purple box with a icon. Students will see the same color in their availability searches.
After the appointment has been booked, you will notice a couple differences compared to standard appointments. The Status field now only contains "In Progress" and "Concluded" plus a missed and canceled status, as standard synchronous statuses no longer apply. An additional Messages tab has also been added, which will contain all communications between the consultant and the student.
Students and consultants will primarily be communicating and managing the session from the dashboard. This will display all "In Progress" asynchronous sessions that you (a consultant or student) are a part of. Clicking "Show Previous Concluded" will let you review past asynchronous sessions, download documents, or even reopen the session if needed. The "Asynchronous Communications" phrasing in the title of this widget can be overridden in your system preferences.
Clicking on one of these entries will open the appointment record with two tabs available. Appointment Information contains the current status of the appointment, any custom fields, as well as uploaded documents. Messages (pictured below) shows the current discussion between the student and their consultant, along with a log of document uploads/deletions. Either party can conclude or reopen the session at any time with the button in the lower-right corner.
Reserve Blocks / Prevent booking and cancel appointments
Reserve Blocks can be created over existing availabilities and appointments, to prevent booking and automatically cancel conflicting appointments. This is typically used for holiday breaks, sick days, or to block off specific times of the day when a consultant will not be available.
There are two ways to create a reserve block. You can click-and-drag an availability as usual, then tap the 'a' key to cycle to a reserve block, or create a normal availability then change the block type to "Reserve Block" in the top-right corner.
Once you've started creating your reserve block, you will find a few options that don't exist in normal availabilities which have been detailed below.
All Staff this Center is used to create a block for all consultants across your selected center, rather than exclusively for the consultant account that you had originally selected.
All Staff for All Centers goes beyond what the "this center" option does, placing this block on all consultant schedules across all centers.
Show on schedule as meeting will change how this block visually displays on the schedule and will be shared to the consultant's calendar via the "Calendar URL" button on the staff dashboard. This does not have an effect on blocking availabilities or cancelling appointments, that functionality will be the same regardless of if this is checked.
Do NOT Cancel any intersecting appointments will prevent overlapping/conflicting appointments from being automatically canceled when this block is saved, which is otherwise the default behavior of reserve blocks.
Description can be used to record why this reserve block exits. For example, "Time off for holiday."
Status will apply to all overlapping appointments. For example, "Canceled - Holiday" to differentiate these cancellations when running reports. If this field is left blank, a generic "Canceled" status will be used instead.
The rest of the reserve block is created like a standard availability, set the time and days that should be blocked, then click "Save" to add it to the schedule.
Booking Appointments
Appointments can be booked from the staff schedule directly, or from the dashboard. The former can only be accessed by staff, while the latter can be accessed by both students and staff if their permission group allows it. Regardless of which option is used, emails will be sent out as usual and the records will appear in reports as expected.
Staff Schedule
From the staff schedule, there are 3 ways to book an appointment for a students, depending on what's easiest for that particular session.
Ad-hoc appointments can be created by clicking-and-dragging (as if you're creating an availability), but before you let go of left-click, tap the 'a' key on your keyboard to cycle to the appointment option (white). After you let go, TracCloud will prompt you to choose a student before taking you to the appointment entry screen (detailed further into this article).
Booking availabilities can be accomplished by clicking on the start time of the availability (group or 1-on-1) and searching for a student. After making your selection, you will be brought to the appointment entry screen. You can also click on the icon to set a custom start and end time for your appointment.
Dashboard
Both students and staff have access to the dashboard appointment search widget. The primary difference (aside from the appointment entry page itself) is that staff will need to select a student in the widget, while students do not since they're already logged in on their browser. The exact options available in this widget will be based on your profile preferences and search availability widget settings.
If “Choose a Date & Center” is selected (or was made the default for your system), an additional window will appear after clicking "Search" to choose a center/profile, as well as the specific date of the appointment you want to book. The phrasing of text shown here is based on your search availability widget settings.
After searching, you will be brought to a results screen such as this, allowing you to view the time of the appointment, which center it takes place in, whether it’s a Group, 1 on 1, Drop-In, or Asynchronous time slot, and the consultant. The results will load one day at a time, more results can be loaded by clicking the “Load more for [the following day]” at the bottom of the screen. Clicking on the time slot will open the appointment entry window where you can book that time slot.
Appointment Entry
After clicking on the availability that you want to book, the appointment entry screen where you can fill out custom fields and confirm your appointment will differ depending on if you're logged in as a staff or a student.
The student view is very restricted. The student can only edit fields that your system (or individual availability, depending on the field) allows to be edited. Student custom fields, meeting type, recurring status, and duration.
The staff perspective shows all appointment fields, including status.
Group rosters are exclusive to group availabilities, where multiple appointments need to be viewed or managed at once. This utility offers several unique features compared to the 1-on-1 appointments seen directly on the staff schedule. To open the group roster, you can click on the 0 / 0 icon on the availability block.
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If a group is locked by a staff member, it cannot be found or booked in availability searches. This feature can be used if you want to reserve the remaining slots or to prevent further appointments at this time to provide more attention to a smaller roster. Staff can still book new appointments from the roster view even if it's locked.
Documents
If a document is uploaded to the group roster, it will be linked to all appointments at that time. Students will be able to view this document in their appointment record if they have access to the chosen document type.
Roster List
In the center of the group roster, you'll see a list of students who have appointments at this time. This includes their name, reason, and subject.
/ / / indicates the status of the appointment, and can be clicked to quickly change the status to a different value.
Not logged in / Logged in at can be clicked to start or conclude the student's visit, similar to the functionality of the log listing. This feature can be disabled in system preferences (General Appointment Settings) if preferred.
will open the full appointment record for viewing or editing.
can be clicked to send a text message to the student if they're opted into SMS alerts. Requires the TextAlerts module.
/ can be clicked to select the appointments. This can be used alongside the "Send Email to" and "Add Notes to" options to only affect the selected records.
Add to Roster
Click this button to search for and immediately book an appointment for a student.
Add Multiple
This will open a new window where you can add students as a batch process. Search for and select students based on enrollments, name, or a list of IDs. When searching by enrollments, students will only appear if the consultant is assigned to that course in their course list.
Mark All as Attended
This will mark all appointments in the roster that don't already have a status as attended.
Send Email to
Send an email to students in the roster. You can choose to send the email to all students, cancels, misses, attended appointments, or selected appointments.
Add Notes to
This option can be used to enter notes in attended visits or appointment custom fields, either based on status or the selected appointments.
Send Notes
This option may be labelled differently depending on your profile preferences. Click this button to initiate the Send Visits Notes to email for attended appointments.
Moving Appointments
If an appointments needs to be moved, you can either cancel the appointment and book it at a new time, or you can move the appointment record. There are two ways to accomplish this, both will send a new confirmation email to the student and consultant informing them of this change.
1. Click-and-drag the top-left corner of an appointment to move it to another time slot on the visible schedule. This can be done from an individual staff schedule or from the "all of this center" view. The latter also allows you to move an appointment to another consultant's schedule.
2. The "Move" button within each appointment can be used to initiate an appointment search, just like on the dashboard. Click on the new time slot you want to book and save your changes.
Availability Blocks Listing
The Availability Listing can be viewed by going to Other > Listings > Availability Blocks. Access to this listing can be provided by adding "Availability Blocks" table access to a permission group under 'Admin / Modules'. This listing contains all availability records that you have permission to view, including the ability to make batch changes or simply search for and few individual records. The icon shows if the availability is a reserve block or not.
Each column of information displayed has a clickable header that will sort the listing accordingly. Clicking once sorts ascending, a second click will sort descending.
Using the Search Bar on this screen, we can easily perform quick searches to find specific availability records. Right clicking in the search bar (shown below) will provide a list of availability fields to search by, click any of these to auto-fill the search bar.
Example Searches:
Find an availability by a single value, such as the consultant's name.
Staff.LastFirst="Smith, Dave"
Search multiple fields at once, separate your searches by a space. If a value you're searching for contains a space, make sure to surround the value with quotes like with the consultant's name below.
Date searches such as this are required to be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD.
#sql:FromDate#=2024-04-16
You can also search for records where a date is greater than or less than a value like this.
#sql:FromDate#=<2024-04-16
You can also search by a date range with ...
#sql:FromDate#=2024-04-01...2024-04-30
You can search by recurring type like this. Example values would be "Daily", "Optional Daily", "Optional Daily Chosen", "Weekly", etc.
AvailBlocks.RecurType="Optional Bi-Weekly"
Hamburger Menu
Every listing page in the Trac System features a hamburger menu with utilities to search for or interact with your list of records. Some of these options are specific to a certain listing/record-type, others are shared. The following list includes definitions for the hamburger menu options available on this listing, and how they can be utilized.
List All
This option will show all records on the current listing. Some listings have an additional toggle for only showing "Active" records, such as Students and Registrations, which will still override a "List All" search if checked.
Power Search
This option provides a simple but powerful search utility to find the records you need. String together multiple searches, adding or removing results for each. Use Search Symbols to include ranges of data, and Save Searches for later use if needed. The search term 'blankornull' can be used to find all records with a value of nothing ("") or null ().
This utility takes your selection of records, finds the related records, and takes you to that listing with the resulting records. For example, on the Registration listing, you can "Show these Students" to display the student records for the registrations that you were viewing.
Find/Merge Duplicates
These utilities can be used to cleanup duplicate records in your Trac System. We highly recommend reaching out to Redrock Support directly for assistance in cleaning up this data.
Find by Values
This utility can be used to search one field for multiple values. If you have a spreadsheet containing a list of student IDs, this is an easy way to pull up the same list of students in TracCloud by copying the ID column into this search field.
Change Field Values
This utility allows you to make modifications in to your records in bulk. Similar to the Merge Duplicates utility, we highly recommend coordinating with Redrock Support directly on this setting.
Allows you to print the contents of the current listing, by extension this also allows you to export the current list as a PDF file.
Troubleshooting Availability Searches
If you've created a new availability for one of your Consultants and it's not showing up as expected when performing a search for appointment times, there are a few possible causes. This portion of the wiki outlines these possibilities, ordered from most to least likely based on what we at Redrock have experienced working with campuses directly.
1. Center and Consultant Course Lists
The most common cause when an availability isn't appearing in search results is misconfigured Course Lists. Both your Consultant and your Center need to be assigned to the subject you're searching for (unless your Center or Reason is set to ignore Consultant Specialties). Make sure you Process Specialties (Step 2) after applying any changes.
Consultant Course List: Other > Listings > Staff > [Your Staff] > Course List of Specialties Center Course List:Other > Other Options > Profiles > [Your Profile] > Centers > Course List for this Center
A complete list of Course Lists can also be found by simply going to: Other > Listings > Course Lists
This is always recommended after applying changes to Course Lists, but it may also be the case that the specific section you searched for was imported after you created the Course List for your Center/Consultant, and a Course List refresh alone may resolve this issue. We can setup an automated process to Process Specialties daily if this occurs often, reach out to us using the 'Support' tab above for more information.
3. Reason Assignments
Similar to ensuring that your courses are assigned to the correct Consultant and Center, the same applies for Reasons. This step only applies if you're using Reason as a search criteria.
For Consultants, go to Other > Listings > Staff > [Your Staff] > Reason Specialties For Centers, go to Other > Other Options > Profiles > [Your Profile] > Centers > [Your Center] > Active Reasons
If your availability is assigned to the wrong subject or reason, this can cause it to be unintentionally filtered out of results. Make sure the value entered here is correct, especially if you're using wildcards. If these are blank (i.e., available for all specialties), you can skip this troubleshooting step.
Schedule > [Consultant] > Availability
5. Profile Time Restrictions
If your availability is 60 minutes long, but your profile only allows for a maximum of 50-minute appointments, this can unexpectedly filter out availabilities if you haven't updated your profile preferences to match this new limit. The relevant options to check here are Schedule no sooner than and no later than, ensure that you're searching within an allowed range. As well as Minimum and Maximum Appointment Duration, make sure your availability is within the limits defined by your profile.
Other > Other Options > Profiles > [Your Profile] > Prefs > Scheduling > Time Restrictions
In the event that you aren't searching for both Reason and Subject, and the previous steps haven't resolved your issue, it's worth double-checking to make sure your Profile hasn't been mistakenly set to require a Subject/Reason to show availabilities. Make sure the highlighted settings match the search you're performing on the dashboard.
Other > Other Options > Profiles > [Your Profile] > Prefs > Scheduling > Special Fields
If your campus utilizes the Skills/Accommodations feature, with 'Excluded when not chosen' enabled, make sure your consultant/availability is assigned to that Skill/Accommodation.
Consultants: Other > Listings > Staff > [Staff Account] > Special Needs/Skills/Accommodations
Availabilities: Schedule > [Availability] > Special Needs > Special Needs/Skills/Accommodations
Still having trouble getting the results you expect? Reach out to us using the 'Support' tab at the very top of this page, we'd be happy to help.
Emails - Appointment confirmations, reminders, etc.
2023-03-14 | Notification Menu Improvements
The Notification menu has received an update to make it easier to search, categorize, and hide notifications. The drop-down option at the top of the menu allows you to select the category of notification that you want to filter by (Task, Appointment Request, etc). Additionally, each notification can now be hidden with the eye icon (or you can hide all shown with the button at the bottom). Hidden notifications can be viewed by clicking on the There are X hidden items text.
An Appointment represents the reservation of a time slot (availability) between a student and a consultant. The student intends to show up at your center at X date & time, for Y subject, Z reason, etc. If the student attends this appointment, a visit record will be created. If they do not attend, no visit will be created, and the status will be recorded as cancelled or missed as needed. Appointments can additionally contain custom fields that both students and staff can fill out, as well as documents that need to be shared between the two parties.
The Appointments Listing can be viewed by going to Other > Listings > Appointments. Access to this listing can be provided by adding "Appointments" table access to a permission group under 'Admin / Modules'. This listing contains all appointment records that you have permission to view, including the ability to make batch changes, create custom views, or simply search for and few individual appointments. The icon shows if the registration that the appointment was booked for is still active.
Each column of information displayed has a clickable header that will sort the listing accordingly. Clicking once sorts ascending, a second click will sort descending.
Using the Search Bar on this screen, we can easily perform quick searches to find specific appointment records. Right clicking in the search bar (shown below) will provide a list of available appointment fields to search, click any of these to auto-fill the search bar.
Example Searches:
Find an appointment by a single value, such as student ID. Specifying 'Students.ID=' actually isn't required for ID or Name searches, but it works well as an example.
Students.ID=1931
Search multiple fields at once, separate your searches by a space.
Students.ID=1931 Appointments.Online=1
When performing multiple searches where at least one field contains a space, make sure to surround the contents you're searching for with quotation marks.
Students.ID=1931 Reasons.Reason="Paper Writing"
Date searches such as this are required to be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD
Appointments.StartDT=2023-04-27
You can also search by a date range with ... (quote protected)
Appointments.StartDT="2023-04-20...2023-04-30"
Hamburger Menu
Every listing page in the Trac System features a hamburger menu with utilities to search for or interact with your list of records. Some of these options are specific to a certain listing/record-type, others are shared. The following list includes definitions for the hamburger menu options available on this listing, and how they can be utilized.
All Appointments, Today, Recent Appointments, etc
These options allow you to quickly search for a specific date range for your appointment records. Recent Appointments is the default, showing the past 6 months of data.
Search
This utility will open a pop-up window unique to each Listing it's present on, allowing you to search your records by a number of different fields.
Power Search
This option provides a simple but powerful search utility to find the records you need. String together multiple searches, adding or removing results for each. Use Search Symbols to include ranges of data, and Save Searches for later use if needed. The search term 'blankornull' can be used to find all records with a value of nothing ("") or null ().
This utility takes your selection of records, finds the related records, and takes you to that listing with the resulting records. For example, on the Registration listing, you can "Show these Students" to display the student records for the registrations that you were viewing.
Find/Merge Duplicates
These utilities can be used to cleanup duplicate records in your Trac System. We highly recommend reaching out to Redrock Support directly for assistance in cleaning up this data.
Find by Values
This utility can be used to search one field for multiple values. If you have a spreadsheet containing a list of student IDs, this is an easy way to pull up the same list of students in TracCloud by copying the ID column into this search field.
Change Field Values
This utility allows you to make modifications in to your records in bulk. Similar to the Merge Duplicates utility, we highly recommend coordinating with Redrock Support directly on this setting.
Custom Fields - Custom fields can be placed in appointment records.
Search Availability badges can be used to add information and indicators to availability slots. Each badge can appear for certain conditions, based on center, availability section/reason, location, skills/accommodations, etc.
Click "New Availability Badge" to begin. This will open a form where you can enter the details for your badge.
Manually Linked
Rather than the badge automatically appearing based on certain conditions, these badges appear in a menu to be manually selected on the availability itself.
Name
Name of the Badge. This will not be displayed for students
Availability Type; In Person, Online, Online Optional, or Phone
Location
Location of the availability
Once you've decided where the badge is needed and have made your selections from the options above, you can now determine which icon, colors, and info work best for the badge created. Color: Color of Icon Icon: Choose from the list or use a custom icon Info Text: Enter text that will display when users hover over the icon
In the example screenshot above, this badge will only appear on availabilities of staff who have been assigned the “ASL” accommodation and are available in the Learning Center. Once saved, your badge will appear in the profile preferences if you need to edit/delete it later.
Any fields left blank will not be considered for where this badge appears, you can be as specific or non-specific as needed. You can also create as many badges as you'd like, more than 1 tag can appear for the same availability. When students search for an availability, the badges will display to the right of the screen as shown below.
Student data is one of the most important parts of your Trac System, on top of being the record that all their visits, appointments, documents, and more are assigned to, you also have the student's information directly. You can run reports on visits grouped by student majors, or send emails to students of a certain class, cohort, or any other field you have available. This article goes over some of the ways you can search for these records.
The Students Listing itself (found by clicking 'Students' in the Navigation Bar) contains all student records uploaded to your Trac System. From this page, we're able to manage student data in bulk, creating lists, sending emails, or submitting SAGE referrals, or we can open a specific student record and manage just one student profile at a time.
Each column of information displayed has a clickable header that will sort the listing accordingly. Clicking once sorts ascending, a second click will sort descending.
Using the Search Bar on this screen, we can easily perform quick searches to find specific students. Right clicking in the search bar (shown below) will provide a list of available student fields to search, click any of these to auto-fill the search bar.
Example Searches:
Find a student by a single value, such as ID. Specifying 'Students.ID=' actually isn't required for ID or Name searches, but it works well as an example.
Students.ID=1931
...or name. Names should be formatted as 'Last, First' or 'First M Last'. 'First Last' will also work if middle names are not being imported.
Day, Rob
Search multiple fields at once, separate your searches by a space.
When performing multiple searches where at least one field contains a space, make sure to surround the contents you're searching for with quotation marks.
Search in Custom Fields. It's recommended to use the right-click menu to select these, as it will always auto-fill the correct field name.
#sql:InState#=Yes
Date searches such as this are required to be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD
Students.BirthDate=1993-07-16
We also offer a special search to find students where today is their birthday.
birthdaytoday
Additionally, it's even possible to search for students who received a batch email from TracCloud. The search below would return all students who received a batch email from TracCloud on 2024-10-23 where the subject contained the phrase "Upcoming Event".
The Student Listing also has a unique Search utility found in the hamburger menu . This utility has the ability to search related tables to find relevant students. This includes the ability to run searches such as "students who have had appointments in the last 7 days" or "students who have ongoing referrals."
Search Type
This can be set to New Search, Search Selection, Remove found from Selection, or Add found to Selection, depending on the desired effect of this search.
General Info tab
This tab is where you can search for basic information about the student. ID, Status, Name, etc.
Appointments
This tab allows you to search for students by appointment information. For example, "students who had an appointment from 02/10 to 02/20 with a status of Missed." Any fields that support wildcards additionally support the | character for "or."
Visits
This tab allows you to search for students by visit info. For example, "students who visited more than 2 times from 02/10 to 02/20 where the subject was MAT100." Any fields that support wildcards additionally support the | character for "or."
Registration
This tab allows you to search for students by registration info. For example, "students who are actively enrolled in more than one math course." Any fields that support wildcards additionally support the | character for "or."
Documents
This allows you to search for students by documents. "Students who have a document of a certain filename uploaded in the last month."
Surveys
Students who have received or responded to a survey in a certain time period. Requires SurveyTrac.
SAGE Referrals
Students who have ongoing or completed referrals of a specific type in a specified date range. Requires SAGE. Any fields that support wildcards additionally support the | character for "or."
Assignments
This tab allows you to search by potential assignments. Any fields that support wildcards additionally support the | character for "or."
Resources
This tab allows you to search for students by their resource usage, whether they have certain items checked out or overdue. Any fields that support wildcards additionally support the | character for "or."
Terms & Conditions
Search by accepted terms and conditions. Any fields that support wildcards additionally support the | character for "or."
Every listing page in the Trac System features a hamburger menu with utilities to search for or interact with your list of records. Some of these options are specific to a certain listing/record-type, others are shared. The following list includes definitions for the hamburger menu options available on this listing, and how they can be utilized.
List All
This option will show all records on the current listing. Some listings have an additional toggle for only showing "Active" records, such as Students and Registrations, which will still override a "List All" search if checked.
Search
This utility will open a pop-up window unique to each Listing it's present on, allowing you to search your records by a number of different fields. In the case of the Student Listing, you could use this to search related records, such as 'Students who have at least 2 Visits in the Learning Center' or 'Students with a recent Document upload in their timeline.'
Power Search
This option provides a simple but powerful search utility to find the records you need. String together multiple searches, adding or removing results for each. Use Search Symbols to include ranges of data, and Save Searches for later use if needed. The search term 'blankornull' can be used to find all records with a value of nothing ("") or null ().
Search by Term Enrollment
Allows you to search based on the students' enrollment in a specific term or multiple terms. The example search below would show students who are enrolled in a 2023SP registration AND are not enrolled in a 2023FA registration.
These utilities can be used to cleanup duplicate records in your Trac System. We highly recommend reaching out to Redrock Support directly for assistance in cleaning up this data.
Find by Values
This utility can be used to search one field for multiple values. If you have a spreadsheet containing a list of student IDs, this is an easy way to pull up the same list of students in TracCloud by copying the ID column into this search field.
Change Field Values
This utility allows you to make modifications in to your records in bulk. Similar to the Merge Duplicates utility, we highly recommend coordinating with Redrock Support directly on this setting.
Allows you to send a survey to the current user list. More information.
Register In
Allows you to quickly enroll a student in a new registration. Depending on your import configuration, manually recreated registrations may be deactivated during your auto-import.
Assign Success Plan
Allows you to assign a new Success Plan to the current student list. More information.
Create Referral
Allows you to create a batch referral through SAGE. More information.
Create Task
Allows you to send a task to the current student list. More information.
Toggle Photos
Enable or disable student photos on the Student Listing.
Create Chart
Based on the data currently being viewed a chart can be generated to visually illustrate the relationships in the data.
Export CSV
Export current listing contents to a CSV file.
Send Email
Allows you to send an email directly to a list of users.
Send Email to Faculty
This email utility allows you to email faculty linked to student registrations. The faculty recipients can be determined by subject, status, and grade. One email will be sent per linked registration, so if there are 3 students listed enrolled in MAT100 with Dave Smith, Dave Smith will receive 3 emails. Faculty recipients can also be filtered by scheduled day/time if section schedule is being imported.
Show these <records>
This utility takes your selection of records, finds the related records, and takes you to that listing with the resulting records. For example, on the Registration listing, you can "Show these Students" to display the student records for the registrations that you were viewing.
Print
Allows you to print the contents of the current listing, by extension this also allows you to export the current list as a PDF file.
New <Record>
Allows you to create a new record based on your selected listing.
Centers
The Centers tab contains all of the Centers created in this profile. A center can represent a physical center, department, or any other division that you may want to designate. From this menu, we can also see the linked course list and the color designation.
Creating a Center
The hamburger icon button contains the option to create a new center. Once selected, you will be taken to a General tab where you can start configuring your center.
Inactive
We never recommend deleting centers in TracCloud, as this will remove the related records (Visits/Appointments/etc) from reports and student/staff histories. Instead, we recommend setting these records to Inactive, which will hide it from view, but keeps the records available for reports or reactivation.
Profile
All of your centers are assigned to profiles; this field displays which profile this particular center has been assigned to. This will default to whichever profile you started creating the center from.
Center Color
The accent color for this center. This color will be shown in the center list and on the schedule.
Name
The name of the center, which is typically displayed to all user types in regards to visit tracking and scheduling.
Ignore consultant specialties for this center (ie Writing Center)
When searching for availabilities, only consultants who are assigned to the selected subject will appear. For example, when a staff member or student selects “MATH101”, only consultants who can assist with MATH101 will be displayed. This checkbox disables that, allowing consultants in this center to assist with any course, regardless of their assigned course list. This is typically used for writing centers, and only applies when searching for availabilities from the dashboard, and does not have an effect when booking appointments from the staff schedule. The center course list still applies as usual.
Utilize Students/Consultant Link for this Center (if Defined in Profile)
If configured in your profile options, students can be linked with advisors/consultants based on a field in their profile. When that student logs in, they will only see advisors that match their linked field. Checking this box enables this feature in this center. For example, students would only see advisors assigned to their major, etc.
Students with Null or Blank Values in Linking field can book with anyone
This option expands on the above, so that if a student does not have any data in their assigned advisor/major/etc field, they are allowed to see all consultants in search results. Otherwise, no results will be returned from this center.
Hide on Log / KIOSK Listing Menu
Enabling this option will remove this Center as a choice in the KIOSK and Log Listing menu, as well as from the available Center choices when logging into a Profile-wide Kiosk.
Hide for Work Visits on Consultant Work Login
Enabling this option will remove this Center as a choice when staff members are logging in for work visits.
Allow or block students on a specific list from logging into or booking appointments in this center. If a list is selected in an "allow" field, all other students would be automatically prevented from scheduling/logging in.
Active Reasons Allowed for This Center
The reasons assigned to this center. This controls which reasons are displayed when searching for and booking appointments, as well as the options available during kiosk logins.
When searching for an appointment, you can click the info icon/center name, and the additional information will be displayed.
This information can contain a center description, map location, written location, additional info, hours of operation, and even photos. More information on configuring this screen can be found in our dedicated Locations, Hours, and Descriptions article.
Description
This text field appears in the top-right corner of the Center Info window.
Picture 1 URL
A direct link to an image of your choice, this will appear in the top-left corner of Center Info.
Map Coordinates
This will be the location displayed in the Google Maps box, and how far zoomed in/out the default view is. Formatted as Latitude, Longitude, default zoom level.
For the default zoom, 12 would be fairly zoomed out, giving people a highway/main road reference, 15 would be a typical street-level view, and 18 would be a zoomed in campus-level view.
Location/Address
This will appear above the Google Maps box, providing the written address.
Hours of Operation
Your center hours, displayed on the left-side of the Center Info box.
Picture 2 URL
A direct link to an image that will appear in the lower-left corner of the Center Info box.
Additional Information
An additional text field that displays at the very bottom of the Center Info box.
Any field left blank will simply not appear in Center Info at all.
Staff & Consultants
This tab is where you will find your staff/consultants that have been assigned to this profile. From this view, we can see the staff names, the centers and group they’re assigned to, and what type of staff member they are (consultant or regular staff).
For a complete list of staff, not just staff assigned to this profile, go to Other > Other Options > Listings > Staff.
To create a new staff member, click on the hamburger button, then select “New Staff Member.”
General / Name, Photo, Permissions, etc.
First Name, Last Name
The staff member’s name. This will display on the staff schedule and in reports. This can also display to students if alias is not being used instead.
Username
This is the username that this staff member will use to login (or for SSO authentication). Coordinate with your IT and/or Redrock Software to determine what your username format should be (e.g., ID number, email address, etc).
Other ID
This is the alternate ID of this staff member, can be used for searches or staff work visits.
Hired / Terminated & Reason
Hired/Termination dates as well as the reason for termination can be recorded for reference if needed. This does not affect Trac System functionality.
During visit login/logout or on the staff schedule, where a list of consultants are shown, the results will be sorted alphabetically by last name. You can enter text in this field to override this. For example, Hans Zimmer would typically be at the very end of the list, but if you enter "AAA" in this field, they would be displayed towards the very top instead. The opposite is also true, you can enter "ZZZ" for Dave Anderson to push him towards the bottom of the list.
Staff BIO
A written bio of this staff account. Can be displayed to students, more information.
Inactive
We don’t recommend deleting records in TracCloud, as this will also disconnect them from related records (Visits, Appointments, etc). Instead, we recommend deactivating the account by checking this box. This will hide them from view and prevent them from logging into TracCloud, but the record and related data remains available if needed, for historical reporting or later reactivation.
Title or Position & Supervisor
This staff member's position title and supervisor for reference if needed. This does not affect Trac System functionality.
User Level
The user level determines some baseline rules for what this staff member can and can’t access. More information.
Default Center
This is the primary center the staff member is assigned to. Also determines which profile's "Staff & Consultants" list they appear in.
Permission Group
The permission group that this staff is assigned to. More information.
Linked Centers
This is where you can assign staff members to different centers in TracCloud. A center must be assigned here for a consultant to have availabilities in or be assigned to visits for that center.
Notes
An optional field for any notes that you may want to record relating to this staff member.
Consultant
If this checkbox is selected, this staff member will be made an available option on the schedule and allows them to be linked to visits. Additional consultant-specific options also become available, as detailed below.
• Alias
An alternate name that will appear when searching for appointments. Requires the “Display consultant alias on availability search” option to be enabled in your Profile Scheduling Prefs.
• Online Link
If remote appointments are held via online conferencing platforms (Zoom, Webex, etc), each of your consultants can have a unique invite link defined in their profile. When a URL is placed here, and their availability is set the online meeting type, the URL entered in this field will appear in the available location choices.
These are the skills/accommodations that this consultant can assist with. For example, if accommodations are used to specify a preferred language, you could select the languages this consultant can assist with here. More information on configuring these accommodations can be found here.
KIOSK
If the “KIOSK” checkbox is selected, the account is heavily restricted and many fields are removed. Kiosk accounts can login and select a Kiosk to open, and nothing else. Normal staff members can open kiosks as well, but this can be useful if you need to create a generic account to share with other people to open kiosks in your center.
Contact & Other Data
Most of the options here are self-explanatory, just basic contact information about this staff member, such as their email address, phone number, address, etc. The icon indicates whether or not they're opted into text alerts. Custom fields can also be created on this page as well.
This tab allows you to specify which reasons this consultant is assigned to. If a user searches for availabilities with a reason that the consultant isn't assigned to, they won't appear in the search results, similar to section specialties.
Timeline
The staff timeline operates similarly to the student timeline, showing a history of their related records. Visits, appointments, tasks, document uploads, etc.
Staff Listing
To view a list of all staff accounts in TracCloud across multiple profiles, go to Other > Listings Staff.
Staff records can be duplicated by clicking the button. This will copy group, user level, default center, linked centers, consultant status, course list (generic course lists only, per-consultant course lists will not be copied), reason specialties, and accommodations to a new staff record and prompt you to replace unique information such as name, address, etc.
Hamburger Menu
Every listing page in the Trac System features a hamburger menu with utilities to search for or interact with your list of records. Some of these options are specific to a certain listing/record-type, others are shared. The following list includes definitions for the hamburger menu options available on this listing, and how they can be utilized.
List All
This option will show all records on the current listing. Some listings have an additional toggle for only showing "Active" records, such as Students and Registrations, which will still override a "List All" search if checked.
Power Search
This option provides a simple but powerful search utility to find the records you need. String together multiple searches, adding or removing results for each. Use Search Symbols to include ranges of data, and Save Searches for later use if needed. The search term 'blankornull' can be used to find all records with a value of nothing ("") or null ().
This utility allows you to make modifications in to your records in bulk. Similar to the Merge Duplicates utility, we highly recommend coordinating with Redrock Support directly on this setting.
