Faculty Directory
In the Faculty Directory, administrators can view a list of teachers and other staff members at their school who are using Newsela. Administrators can remove faculty members, view license information, see information about their last login, and in some cases also impersonate the teachers.
Navigate to your Faculty Directory
Click 'Admin' at the top of screen
Select 'Admin Console' from the dropdown menu
Scroll to the Admin Directories section to select to view Faculty Directory, or select 'Faculty' from the left-hand navigation menu
Remove Teachers
Educators with a School Admin (Principal) role in Newsela have the ability to remove faculty linked to their school. District Admins have the ability to remove faculty across the district.
To remove a member of faculty
Navigate to the Admin Console
Scroll down to Admin Directories to select 'View schools directory', or click on 'Schools' in the left-hand navigation menu
Click on the name of the school to open the school profile page
Scroll down and click on the hyperlinked Teachers count at the bottom of the page
A list of all teachers at the school will appear. On the right side of the screen will be an X. Click this X , and when prompted, click remove teacher to confirm. The faculty member will receive an email stating that an administrator at their school has removed their account.
*For administrators in bulk rostered districts: Removing a faculty member via this method will NOT remove that user from the school’s shared integration data and they will reappear after the next scheduled sync with Newsela. Please make sure the faculty update is made on the integration side first and contact us contact us if they continue appearing in your faculty list
4. If a student appears in your faculty list, please contact us to change the role to a student, rather than removing them from your faculty list.
Reinstating a member of faculty
Administrators can reinstate a faculty member's association with their school by sending a request through this form. Once reinstated, all classes created for the school will reappear.
Anyone with a valid email address for a school can join a Newsela school. When an administrator removes a faculty member from the school, it does not delete the faculty member's account. The faculty member can sign in and choose a new school. Classes the faculty member created for the school from which they were removed will no longer appear to protect student information.
Update Teacher Information
Teacher information can be updated in the admin console. However, if teachers are using an integration to log in, the information needs to be updated in your integration or within their own accounts.
If information is listed improperly, verify that it is correct in Clever, Google, Canvas, Schoology, ClassLink, or any other platform you use to log in to Newsela. Please Contact us if the problem is exclusive to Newsela.
Impersonate Teachers
Administrators have visibility into assignments and class-based reporting that they can access by impersonating teachers in their districts. This allows admins to provide better support for their teachers by signing in and viewing their account setup.
To impersonate a teacher, head over to the Faculty Directory and click on the 'Impersonate' button next to a teacher's record.
This impersonation feature is view-only, meaning while the admin can see what the teacher will see, the admin can't make any changes in the account.
Admins can download reports when impersonating teachers.
Admins can only impersonate teachers, they can not impersonate other admins.
If a teacher on the Faculty Directory is not yet verified in Newsela's systems, when the admin clicks the impersonate button it will throw an error. Admins can verify their staff members on the systems used for bulk-rostering for an automatic verification to take place in Newsela's system overnight; or they can reach out to Newsela's support team with a request to verify the teacher on the back-end.
Download Directory Data
School and District administrators can download data from the admin console's Faculty Directory. The download will generate a .csv file. Typically, the download will be created within a few minutes and will continue to process in the background even if the admin leaves the page.