Q:     What are Primary and Secondary accounts?

A: The Primary and Secondary accounts feature allows specific staff accounts the ability to take lunch and attendance for homeroom accounts. This feature can be used to make taking attendance easier for: preschool teachers with multiple homerooms teacher's aides principals with homeroom students homeroom teachers that need admin permissions middle school teachers with block scheduling For example, if a school offers several preschool scheduling options (full day, half day, full week, MWF, etc), then the only way to accurately track those students' attendance was to break them up into separate homerooms. With Primary/Secondary, the preschool teacher can have one 'main' account (primary) and the other homeroom accounts (secondary) will be linked to the main account. From the primary account, the teacher will be able to take attendance and order lunch for all of the secondary accounts. Another example is for staff that are both admin and homeroom. This feature allows them to have two different accounts but since the accounts will be linked, they will be able to perform their homeroom duties from their admin account. Additionally, the accounts that have been flagged as secondary can be hidden from appearing in the FDmail recipient lists and Planner, thus reducing confusion for parents or staff. This allows teachers with multiple accounts to 'hide' their secondary accounts and only log in under ONE primary account.