Add Student
- Last updated on December 15, 2020 at 7:17 AM
Publishers, school/district admins, teachers, and individual teachers can add students in the classes. These students can perform various activities, like reading the content, making notes, adding bookmarks and highlighting within the content, completing assignments, etc. Refer to the role of student for more details.
It is mandatory for the school/district admin or individual teachers to have a sufficient number of licenses to roster students and teachers.
Follow the below steps to add a student:
1. Log in to the portal
2. Click "Roster" on the left-hand side menu.
3. Click "Student" in the sub-menu.
4. (a) If you want to add one student at a time, click "Add Student."
(b) If you want to add students in bulk, click "Bulk Upload."
5. Click "Add Student."
You will be redirected to the "Add Student" page.
All the * marked fields are mandatory. The rest of the fields are optional.
6. Fill in the following information (All the * marked fields are mandatory, other fields are optional and can be left as is)
- Enter the first name and last name of the student.
- Enter the Username. The Username should be unique. It can be an email address, although it doesn't need to be. You can create arbitrary usernames to protect student privacy.
- Enter the password. You can either type in the password or select "Generate" to auto-generate a password. Select the box "Keep the same password for other students" if you wish to provide the same password to all the other students. Passwords should be between 6-20 characters.
- Click inside the "Assign Classes" box and select the class you want to assign to the student. You can also select and assign multiple classes by holding the CTRL button and clicking on each class. These class names will already exist on the portal. If the class does not exist in the class list, you will need to add the class first, before adding the student.
- Click inside the "Grade Name" box and select the grade you want to assign to the student. You can also select and assign multiple grades by holding the CTRL button and clicking on each grade. The "Grade" field is optional, you can leave it blank.
- Click the "Assign Language" drop-down to select the language. The language here refers to the assessment language. The student will be able to access assessments in a particular language, as selected from the drop-down list. The "Assign Language" field is optional, you can leave it blank.
- Enter the Parent's or guardian's email address. By doing so, the Parent account will be created and an email will be sent to the Parent, to allow or deny permission for their child to access the portal. A student cannot log in to the portal if the parent has denied permission. This field exists on the portal to comply with COPPA and GDPR (Optional field). Refer to the role of parent for detailed information.
- Click the "Add More" link if you wish to add more students from the same screen. You can add a maximum of 5 students through "Add More."
7. Click "Save."
All the students added will be listed on the "Manage Students" page.