Global Deployment Settings Overview
School Data Sync
The toggle lets you choose whether you want your profile to continue syncing. Turning off SDS will disable syncs and restrict all access to the service and the toolkit until you turn it back on. Turning on SDS does not start a sync, but merely enables it to continue syncing.
Email notifications
This option enables you to opt in to receiving sync status updates on a daily or weekly basis. A sample of the e-mail can be viewed at E-mail Notifications.
Student personal data protection
These options allow school districts to implement access and other protections for student personal data using Microsoft's SDS in Office 365 and Azure Active Directory. More information can be found at Student Data Protection.
Course group sync
This setting allows SDS to create Course security groups and manage their memberships.
Security group sync- teachers and students
These options allow SDS to create and manage a number of security groups based on the synced information. Additional information can be found at SDS Created Security Groups.
Password administration role for teachers
This setting allows SDS to create Students of School Administrative Units (AUs) for each school synced. Note that this feature is not yet supported for SDS V2 sync profiles.
Manage education insights
Education Insights Premium provides real-time analytics of student progress and activity within their classes. With the timely data provided, educators and education leaders can focus time and energy on taking actions that improve the learning climate, drive student success, and help learners thrive. Information about the data being collected be found here.
Collect activity data for Insights
This option is turned on by default and enables the collection of student activity within Teams to be used in Education Insights. If disabled, we delete all collected data and stop collecting future data. This data cannot be restored.
Note
Collect activity data for Education Insights is enabled by default for all NEW tenants.
Sync organizational data from SDS
This option enables Education Insights Premium. Education Insights Premium is available for purchase. When enabled, we sync the user metadata, roles, classes, and organizational hierarchy with Education Insights Premium. More about Education Insights Premium.
