7.3 Roles and modules

What each role a school starts with can do in each part of Kestrel, and where to find its guide and its training.

Written forRegistrarFront officeTeacherHead of house or yearWellbeingCounsellorLearning supportChild safety officerCase managerDeputy case managerNursePrincipal and executiveBusiness managerIT

How to read the table

Each row is a role Kestrel ships. Each column is a part of Kestrel. "Acts" means the role has a capability there beyond reading or running a report. "Reads" means the role can read and nothing more. A dash means the role has nothing in that part. A person's reach is the union of their roles, so someone who is both a teacher and a head of house gets both rows together.

Roles against modules

IT holds no capability on the person record, by design. Administering the system is a different job from reading a child's record, and a school that wants its IT staff to read it grants that on purpose.

Role guides and training

Each role has a guide of the tasks it does, one at a time, in the documentation at "/docs/guides". Families have a guide of their own. The training plan at "/docs/training" has a short course for each role, and each module chapter's training notes name the course to use. This guide is organised by module and by journey, and the role guides are organised by who you are, so use the one that fits the question.

Settings

An administrator changes what a role has on the "Roles" page of Settings, and gives roles to staff on the staff page.

• 5.3 Staff and access
• 7.2 Capability index
• 6.1 What you can see