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Navigating Practice HQ in Charter School mode

How Practice HQ looks in Charter School mode: tabs shown and hidden, the Dashboard, the grade reminder, and where each admin task lives.

Written by Jana Hindiyeh

đŸ–„ïž For practices in Charter School mode. For school admins using Practice HQ; the tabs you see also depend on the permissions your practice owner has given you.

This article shows you how Practice HQ looks in Charter School mode: which tabs are shown and hidden, what's on the Dashboard home screen, the grade-advance reminder, the Providers & admins and Settings changes, and where to find each school-admin task.

In this article

1. The sidebar in Charter School mode

The sidebar shows the tabs a school practice uses. You only see the tabs you have permission for.

Group

Tabs

Overview

Dashboard, Analytics

People

Clients (or Patients), Waitlist (if turned on), Providers & admins

Operations

Documents, Messaging, Compliance (if document requirements are turned on), Community (if turned on)

Administration

Supervision (if turned on), Permissions, Settings

Account

My profile (non-clinical admin accounts only)

  • Scheduling, Billing, Payroll and Announcements aren't shown in Charter School mode, including on a phone.

  • Practice HQ search doesn't offer Scheduling or Billing either.

  • On a smaller screen with the sidebar collapsed, Community is labeled Outreach.

💡 Tip: The Clients or Patients label follows your practice's terminology setting. Practice HQ never labels the tab "Students".

2. The Dashboard home screen

Dashboard opens with "Welcome to the Practice HQ!" and shows action items, quick actions and the activity feed.

  • Action items can include Overdue docs (needs the Documents permission) and Unsigned notes (needs the Clinical records permission).

  • Quick actions are Add provider (needs the Providers and admins permission) and Help center.

  • There's no add-client or Create intake form quick action. Clinicians add students with Quick intake. See Adding a student with Quick intake.

  • The activity feed filter has an extra option, COS Events, for community outreach events.

3. The grade-advance reminder

Practice HQ reminds you when it's time to move students up a grade.

  • A card near the bottom of the sidebar says "Time to advance grade levels", with an Advance grades button.

  • It appears if grades have never been advanced, or were last advanced 330 or more days ago.

  • Only people with the Caseload permission see it. It's hidden when the sidebar is collapsed.

  • The reminder appears in the sidebar on a computer. On a phone, use Clients → Settings → Advance Grades.

  • Dismissing it hides it for now. It comes back the next time you open Practice HQ, until grades are advanced.

4. The Providers & admins tab

The provider list adds two columns in Charter School mode.

  • Sessions: the provider's total number of sessions.

  • Incomplete: sessions with a started note that isn't signed yet. A number above zero is highlighted.

  • Click either column header to sort by it.

  • View (N) counts the provider's active students only.

Inviting and managing providers works the same as in any practice. See Adding and managing your team.

5. Settings, permissions and supervision

A few practice-wide screens are trimmed for schools.

  • Settings has Practice details, Locations, Feature settings, Default services, Note templates and Theme & branding. There's no Rooms or Subscription & fees.

  • In Note templates, the Include Health Data option isn't shown. Notes default to the GIRP format.

  • Permissions has no Scheduling, Billing or Payroll rows. The practice owner sets permissions there.

  • Supervision has no billing policies.

6. Where to find each task

Use this table to find where each school-admin task lives and which permission it needs.

Task

Where

Permission

Full steps

Find a student or change their primary provider

Clients

Caseload

Advance grades for the new school year

Clients → Settings → Advance Grades, or the sidebar reminder

Caseload

Invite a provider or admin

Providers & admins, or Add provider on the Dashboard

Providers and admins

Upload a document template

Documents → Add template

Documents

Review analytics by academic year

Analytics

Analytics

Log a community outreach event

Community → Log new event

Community

Set up supervision

Supervision

Supervision

Edit note templates

Settings → Note templates

Settings

Change what staff can do

Permissions

Practice owner

✅ Good to know: Community and Supervision only appear if they're turned on for your school. Contact your Oasys representative if you need one of them.


Frequently asked questions

  • Why don't I see Scheduling, Billing or Payroll?

    They aren't shown in Charter School mode, and neither is Announcements. Their rows are also removed from Permissions.

  • How do I add a student from Practice HQ?

    You can't. Clinicians add students with Quick intake from their own dashboard. See Adding a student with Quick intake.

  • I dismissed the grade-advance reminder. How do I get it back?

    It comes back the next time you open Practice HQ. You can also advance grades any time from Clients → Settings → Advance Grades.

  • What does the Incomplete column count?

    Sessions where the provider has started a note but hasn't signed it yet.

  • I can see a tab but a colleague can't. Why?

    Tabs depend on each person's permissions. The practice owner can change them on Permissions.


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