Who Has Access to Your Accounts?

My husband and I have been moving this past month, and now that we're semi-settled into the new homestead, I've had to update our address and contact info on all our personal accounts. And it got me to thinking: how often are administrators updating who has access to make changes on their school social media, website and other public-facing accounts?

As part of your back-to-school process, you need to incorporate this bit of important housekeeping to ensure access is secure and up-to-date. So what sort of things should you check? Consider the following:

• Review the list of who has editing/admin rights to any account that publishes public information. That includes any social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, etc.), your school or district's website, your mass notification system (AKA robocall) and any other tool you use to communicate with parents and your community.
• Remove any users who are no longer with your district. If the person is still within the district but at a different school, he/she no longer needs access to your school's Facebook page, for example, so that person needs to be removed as well.
• Make sure at least two people are administrators on ALL accounts. If only one person has access to the accounts and something happens to that person, it's a pretty big hassle (if it's even possible) to access the sole account to publish content and give rights to alternate staff members.
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