Guided paths

Set up your school

由浅入深

yóu qiǎn rù shēn — “From the shallows into the deep”

Your school workspace, teachers, classes, student lists, seats, analytics, and your obligations for learners’ data.

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A guided path · 7 chapters

Seven chapters, in the order a school is usually set up. Each ends with the place in your workspace where you do it.

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At the top sit your school’s name, its plan, and how many teacher seats and student places are already in use.
A new school can explore for free, with room for one teacher and up to ten students, and no card needed.
Eight tabs below hold the work itself: teachers, students, classes, join requests, imports, analytics, billing and your school’s own settings.
Select Classes: this is where your school’s classes will appear, whether you create them yourself or your teachers do later.
The red bar above opens summaries. Overview counts your seats, students and classes, with shortcuts to invite teachers and import students.
Guide sets out the order that works best: invite your teachers first, they create classes, then you import your students into them.
When you’re ready, you start your free trial from Billing, and everything you have already set up comes with you.

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.

Classes lists every class in your school, with its level, its teacher and its students, and Open takes you inside.
Each class has its own join code, and anyone who joins with it counts as one of your school’s students.
You can create a class yourself, as your teachers can: select Create a class, then choose a name, a level and who can find it.
Each new class uses fifty credits from your school’s balance, or from your own if the school’s has run out.
Inside a class you see its members, and you can invite students by email.
An invited student gets a link by email, and nothing changes on their account until they accept.
Moderators are other adult teachers at your school, who can take a message or a post out of the room.
They can’t remove or mute anyone, set work or see progress, and this school has no second teacher to appoint yet.

Import takes a CSV or Excel file of your students’ names and email addresses, up to five hundred rows at a time.
Each new student is emailed their own link to set a password, so you never handle anyone’s password yourself.
Choose the file in this box, then press Import students. Nothing is created or sent until you press it.
Once your classes exist, you can enrol everyone into one, or add a Class column so each student lands in the right one.
Add a Parent email column as well, and each parent is invited to link their own account to their child’s.
The line under your school’s name counts your students against the limit: this free workspace holds ten.
In Guide, Students claim accounts explains the rest: each student shows as Invited until they have set their password.
Go to Students lists them, and shows whether each holds a curriculum seat, with lessons, or a platform seat without.

Billing starts with what you have now: the free workspace, with one teacher and up to ten students, and no time limit.
Each meter shows what is in use against your limit, for students, teachers and administrators.
Two plans follow: the Starter pack, priced per teacher with students free, and the School plan, priced per student.
The School plan costs two hundred and ninety-nine dollars a month, with five teacher seats, plus each student on a sliding scale.
The Starter pack suits up to three teachers and fifty students, at twenty-nine dollars a month for each teacher.
Paying yearly gives two months free. Monthly billing has a minimum term of six or twelve months, at the same price.
When you start, your seven-day free trial begins, and nothing is charged unless you keep the plan past it.
Billing also holds your school’s shared AI credits, which your teachers draw on when their own run out.

Adoption comes first: how many learners are attached to your school, how many have practised, and how many were active in the last thirty days.
Practised means real answers, not a single sign-in, which makes it the stricter number, and the more useful one.
Outcomes are medians: how much your learners have mastered, and how much they still recall three weeks after a review.
The school uses medians rather than averages, so one very active learner cannot move a figure meant for everyone.
Your classes are listed alphabetically and never ranked, and each one is compared only with its own previous thirty days.
Movement is the change in the share of right answers, in points, so a class that started low can still show its progress.
A class with fewer than five learners practising shows no movement at all, and says so: too small to report.
And results from the optional research tasks never appear here, whatever individual learners have agreed to.

It starts with the learner. Their learning record, product analytics and research are three separate decisions, and research stays off unless they say yes.
The optional tasks are research too. They open only if the learner agrees, and what is shared is de-identified and never sold.
Her teacher sees the class: who has practised, the medians, and who would benefit from attention, each with a reason rather than a ranking.
Opening a learner shows the same panels she sees about herself, so they are both reading the same picture.
Under Ethics, some things a teacher never sees, whatever the learner agrees to: research results, and anything she wrote in her own words.
In a class of three, group figures are withheld, because a median over three people is really one person’s own result.
The school sees adoption and medians across its classes, listed alphabetically and never ranked. A class too small to report says so.
A parent sees one card for each child, never a combined figure.
On her daughter’s page: where she is, and what would help most, in plain words.
And under Activity, one panel is left out for parents: the replay of every page their child opened.

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Everything else is done from here.
Doing this needs a school administrator account.
Teachers run the classes.
Doing this needs a school administrator account.
Classes group your learners and teachers.
Doing this needs a school administrator account.
Add a whole class list at once.
Doing this needs a school administrator account.
Seats and a plan that fit the school.
Doing this needs a school administrator account.
How the school is doing, once learners are studying.
Doing this needs a school administrator account.
Your obligations for learners’ data.
Doing this needs a school administrator account, a teacher account at a school, a tutor account or a parent account.

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