Teacher Desk is a Naviance dashboard, just for teachers, that offers a three-step process for submitting letters of recommendation.
When logging into Naviance, users who have the job function of teacher assigned to them immediately have access to the Teacher Desk. If Naviance assigns you a job function other than teacher, you can still prepare teacher letters of recommendation from the eDocs section of the student folder.
Upload letters of recommendation for seniors starting on August 1. If uploaded before August 1, they are archived during the Naviance downtime in July, and you will need to upload the letters of recommendation again.
The number of steps on the Student Request page may be less than three if your school is not Common App integrated or your counseling department submits the recommendations.
The Teacher Desk dashboard displays a list of your recommendation requests. Use the options to sort, filter, and search to locate specific recommendation requests.
All letter of recommendation requests, regardless of status, including fully canceled requests. A fully canceled request is when the student has canceled the recommendation request for all the schools, not just one.
To display a list of all letter of recommendation requests and manually update the status of a request, including canceling the request, navigate to the teacher recommendation manager.
From the student request page, you can review student information, the requested colleges' tags, the nearest deadline, request details, and the steps to complete the recommendation request.
Requested college tabs are blue, green, or red depending on the status of that school's request.
When fulfilling letter of recommendation requests from Teacher Desk, you are required to complete a maximum of three steps, depending upon the eDocs settings at your school.
The submission status will update. Submission statuses include Requested, In Progress, Submitted, Failed, Canceled, or Blocked. If the status displays blocked, the maximum number of letters for that school may have already been sent, or you did not have a specific request for that college.
You may receive additional requests for specific colleges after you have fulfilled a student's general or specific letter of recommendation requests. Students who made a general request may add more colleges to their list of active applications.
The Teacher Desk does not display letter of recommendation requests for alumni. To display alumni requests, navigate to the student folder or the teacher recommendation manager.
Document submissions to Common App colleges and universities are one and done. If you have already submitted the Common App Teacher Evaluation and letter of recommendation for the student to at least one Common App institution, the documents are automatically submitted to any subsequent Common App requests made by the student. You do not need to take further action in Naviance.
You must manually submit letters of recommendation to each Parchment and Scribbles institution. Submissions to Parchment and Scribbles member schools are not one and done.
Upload a letter of recommendation written for a specific Parchment or Scribbles institution from Prepare in the eDocs section of the Student Folder.
Letter of recommendation statuses vary in Naviance.