SSN Faculty FAQ
Essential SSN tasks for supporting student success and learning
SSN tips, tricks, and nuances
Your account
Institutional Profile
Login Page – choose the section of SSN you want to see immediately upon logging in to the system
Title – leave this field blank unless your role/title doesn’t change regardless of the students with whom you interact
General Overview & My Biography – when students view your profile, My Biography information is placed before General Overview information
Appointment Preferences
My Locations – students will see the location “name” and is the field in which your office location, phone number, etc. should be entered
The First location in this list is the default location, which likely will be your office. If you choose to include your phone number as a "location" ensure that it is not listed first.
Email Notifications
Tracking Item Notifications – ensure that “an item is assigned to me” is checked
Appointments
To edit or cancel office hours or group sessions, hover over the corresponding icon in the Availability column of your Agenda and select Edit on the appropriate button that appears in the new window.
To edit/cancel an appointment or to document meeting notes, hover over the corresponding calendar icon and select the appropriate button that appears in the new window
Students
The My Students tab shows you all students with whom you have a relationship based on your role(s), while the Tracking tab shows you students with whom you have a relationship and who have any Tracking Items.
The system saves the last set of criteria you used to filter your rosters. So, if your student list appears incomplete/incorrect, check Connection, Term, Cohort, and Additional Filters.
Prior to beginning a new filtered search, select the blue Edit Filters button and reset your rosters by selecting the Clear All Filters button that appears in the new window.
When filtering rosters by specific attributes, keep in mind:
The system will use the AND Boolean operator when searching for multiple attribute values
Asterisks may be used as a wildcard search character when filtering for a string value
Tracking
To update a Tracking Item, hover over the corresponding icon and select the appropriate button that appears in the new window
Comment on Flags
To summarize pending action that you and the student discussed
To document that a student has not responded to your outreach attempts
To inform others in the network that you want the Flag to remain active
Clear Flags
To close-the-loop and indicate that the issue has been addressed
Notes
To edit or delete a Note that you wrote, select the paper icon next to the appropriate Note and make your selection within the new window that appears
Google Calendar Sync
Faculty who have synced their Office Hours in SSN with their Google Calendar may have to periodically resync the connection.
Open the menu in the upper left corner (three horizontal bars)
Click on your name and select Email Notifications
Check the box next to "Read busy times from my external Google Calendar"
If your private calendar link still appears in the associated text box, simply click the Submit button in the upper right corner
If your private calendar link does not appear in the associated text box, follow the instructions (linked below the box) to retrieve it