User roles & permissions

	Administrator	Teacher	Student
Liaise with Wordshark re the account -details of email address to be kept safe	Only 1 per school address	X	X
Edit school details and settings	Yes	X	X
Add / Edit Groups	Yes	Yes	X
Archive Groups	Yes	only your own group(s)	X
Add / Edit / Archive / Delete Teacher(s)	Yes	X	X
Add / Edit / Archive  Student(s)	Yes	only your own student(s)	X
Reset students in Supershark	Yes	Yes	X
View all Student logins	Yes	only your own	X
Set work	Yes	Yes	X
Create own lists	Yes	Yes	Yes
Share own lists	Yes	Yes
Create own courses	Yes	Yes
View all Student records	Yes	only your own student(s)	X
View own records	No scores are kept	No scores are kept	Yes
Edit own profile	Yes	Yes	Yes
Browse games & play games	Yes	Yes	Yes
Take the Shark Challenge	X	X	Yes
Play Supershark	X	X	Yes
Browse all courses	Yes	Yes	Only in Free Play

'Administrators': 

• There is only one 'Admin' role (the 'Wordshark Administrator') in Wordshark but you can add as many members of staff as needed and they will have 'teacher' roles.

• Administrators have all the ‘pure admin functions’ plus, (by default) Teacher user functions. It is advisable to leave this setting as the default, as deactivating teacher functions is a one-way process.

• The  administrator role can be assigned to someone else by signing in, going to the main dashboard, and clicking on ‘Edit My Profile’. 

Who should be the administrator? 

Often this role is taken on by the SENDCO, the Literacy Co-ordinator or the Head of Department.

Some administrators choose to share their login details with the IT department to help set up the program, especially when there are a lot of students to add to Wordshark. Either way, it's useful to mention 'whitelisting' to the IT department to make sure Wordshark Online isn't blocked, for example, by the school firewall. If the IT department is helping set up the program, afterwards the administrator can simply change the password if they wish.

To give an idea of what the administrator needs to prepare:

1. A list of staff that are going to use Wordshark, and their emails
   
2. Names of 'groups'  that each of the teachers with work with
   
3. A list of students and which of the above groups you wish to place them in
   

The administrator then continues to have full view of all other teachers and all student records throughout the term of the subscription and continues to be the only person who can add additional teachers.

If the administrator does deactivate their teacher functions, (a one-way process), if needed, a separate Teacher account (using a different email) can be set up. 

'Teachers' can:

• Add/edit/share their own groups

• Populate their own groups from a general list or add new students

• Perform teacher functions such as Set Work, reset Supershark, reset Shark Challenge, create lists and courses and share these, look at student records

• Browse games, courses and word lists

'Students' can:

• Access Supershark (default)

• Access Supershark and any Set Work

• Access Supershark and any Set Work, and all other courses – using the Switch button – (but only if granted Free Play by the teacher/administrator)

• Create and access word lists that they create themselves (this is in addition to any lists created for this student) You may prefer to stipulate that an adult must be present, eg to make sure that spellings inputted are correct

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