Teachers come in on seats. This article is how an invitation works, what a teacher can do once they are in, and the one thing worth deciding before you send twenty of them.
Watch: Inviting your teachers
1 min 19 s · presented by Jason, Mandarin Temple's AI tutor
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- Hi, I’m Jason, Mandarin Temple’s AI tutor. Here’s how to invite the teachers who will run your school’s classes, and how seats work.
- Teachers is the first tab, and the place you invite each teacher by name and the email address they sign in with.
- Teachers appear in this list once they accept their invitation, so a brand-new school starts with nobody here yet.
- Each teacher takes a seat, and the line under your school’s name counts them: here, no teacher seat is used yet.
- The free workspace has one teacher seat. To invite your whole team, you start your free trial from Billing.
- Here, the School plan shows five teacher seats included, with more you can add as your team grows.
- In Guide, the first step says the same: add each teacher by email, and they get a link to join your school.
- Its Go to Teachers button brings you straight back to this form, ready to send the next invitation to a colleague.
- That’s how teachers join: one invitation and one seat for each. Next, set up the classes they will teach.
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Seats
- The School plan — 5 teacher seats included — Plus 1 admin. More teacher seats are $15 a month each, added from Billing in your dashboard.
- Starter, Growth or Scale — 5, 10 or 25 — Schools still on an older plan keep its seats; switching to the School plan is in Billing.
- Enterprise — as many as you need — Arranged rather than listed.
A seat is occupied by a teacher who has accepted. Pending invitations do not consume one, and removing a teacher frees theirs immediately. Inviting past your seats is refused, with a link to add one.
Sending an invitation
- Use the address they will sign in with — The invitation is keyed to it. A personal address when they will use a school one means the invitation never attaches.
- Send it — They get a link. Nothing changes on their side until they accept.
- They arrive already set up — The invitation carries both the teacher role and your institution, so there is no second step where they pick either. An existing account gains the role; a new one is created with it.
What a teacher can do
- Run their classes — Roster, assignments, timeline, messaging and the Learning Lab, for the classes they own.
- Set homework — Pointing at real content with a due date, with completion measured from the learner’s own checkpoints.
- See their learners’ progress — The same figures the learners see about themselves.
- Study themselves — A teacher account is also a learner account.
What they cannot do is administer the institution — seats, billing, imports and institution-wide analytics stay with admins.
Moderators
A school’s classes can have moderators, which a tutor’s circle cannot: another adult teacher at your school, appointed by the class’s teacher or by you from the Moderators section on the class’s page. A moderator can take a message or a post out of the room. They cannot remove or mute anyone, set work, or see progress — and the role ends if they leave the school.
Worth using rather than handing out admin: admin is billing and imports, and someone who only needs to help keep one class in order needs none of that.
Before you invite the whole department
- Decide who owns which class — A class has one owner. Sorting that out on a whiteboard first is faster than reassigning afterwards.
- Invite two people — Check they arrive as teachers, attached to your institution, and can see their class. Then send the rest.
- Confirm the addresses — School addresses that nobody reads are the reason invitations vanish. Ask, do not assume.
Common questions
No. A seat is taken when a teacher accepts, and freed immediately if you remove them.