The Letter Builder and Letter Designer tools allow users to create templates for blank or addressed form letters that can then be generated for students selected through one or more ad hoc filters.
See the Letter Builder and Letter Designer articles to learn how to use these tools.
Letter Designer
The Letter Designer allows users to create letter formats (templates) for their own use or to share with user groups they belong to, depending on user rights.
Letter Designer
If a user does not have any tool rights for User Group Formats, the user will not be able to access any letters in that group or create new ones for that group.
Available Tool Rights - Letter Designer
Subrights in italics.
| R | W | A | D |
|---|---|---|---|
| View existing letter formats. | Edit existing letter formats. | Add new letter formats. | Delete letter formats. |
| User Group Formats: Under Organized To, users can select a user group they are a member of and save letter formats for fellow group members to use. | |||
| View existing letter formats created for the group. | Create and Edit existing letter formats for the group. | N/A | Delete letter formats for the group. |
Letter Builder
The Letter Builder allows the generation of form letters through the selection of a saved letter template and one or more saved student filters.
Letter Builder
Available Tool Rights - Letter Builder
| R | W | A | D |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use Letter Builder tool to select options and build letters. | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Data Warehouse: Allow live data as source | |||
| User can select the "live" database option from the Data Source field. | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Suggested User Groups
See User Groups and Suggested Roles for more information.
