Staff Lists for School Web Sites

For as long as we’ve had school websites, one of the toughest tasks each year has been to maintain the staff list. It’s never just been a matter of making sure that the names of positions were up to date — but usually also included keeping links to staff members’ websites and other online resources up to date.

For the past few years we have offered an embeddable staff list which uses district data to keep these lists up to date, then provides individual staff members a way to update details of their listing including their preferred name, position and links to web resources.

The automated system isn’t perfect as the staff whose primary location is a particular school isn’t always the same as who that location considers to be that staff due to itinerant staff, staff on leave and other factors. In addition to this, while our system can display school photos once they have been taken and entered into the system, it uses ID badge photos when those are not available which are typically not very nice photos.

The following 20 minute-ish video walks through the staff list system and discusses some of its features and issues.

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Updated June 14, 2017