There may be times when you wish to turn off certain DB features for individual children, or groups of children. Staff and admin users are able to turn on/off certain DB features, giving further control to the teacher to ensure online safety rules are being followed.

Whether you want to permanently disable certain features for the children, or just disable them during the school holidays, it is important that your staff feel confident with how to do this.

Individual member restrictions include the ability to disable:

• Pupil mugshot changes – pupils will not be able to change their profile picture
• Pupil nickname editing – pupils will not be able to edit their nickname
• Pupil publishing to the homepage – pupils will not be able to publish personal blog entries to the class homepage
• Pupil webmail – pupils will not have access to webmail at all
• Pupil webmail (composing) – pupils will not be able to send emails but can still receive them (useful if you still want their class teacher to be able to email them)
• Pupil file uploads – pupils will not be able to upload documents into their ‘My Work’ area

To disable certain features for an individual user please follow these steps:

• Enter the school’s administration area via the grey admin tool box on your staff homepage (found in the quick links tile)

• Open the relevant folders (by clicking the + on the folder icon) until you find the user account you wish to edit
• Click on the pencil icon opposite the user’s name
• Open the ‘Settings’ tab
• Tick the features you wish to disable
• Click ‘Save Changes’