User roles & permissions
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Administrator
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Teacher |
Student |
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Liaise with Wordshark re the account -details of email address to be kept safe
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Only 1 per school address |
X
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X
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Edit school details and settings
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Yes |
X
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X
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Add / Edit Groups
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Yes
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Yes
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X
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Archive Groups
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Yes
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only your own group(s)
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X
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Add / Edit / Archive / Delete Teacher(s)
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Yes
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X
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X
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Add / Edit / Archive Student(s) |
Yes
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only your own student(s)
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X
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Reset students in Supershark
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Yes
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Yes
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X
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View all Student logins
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Yes
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only your own
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X
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Set work
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Yes
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Yes
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X
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Create own lists
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Share own lists
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Yes
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Yes
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Create own courses
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Yes
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Yes
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View all Student records
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Yes
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only your own student(s)
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X
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View own records
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No scores are kept
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No scores are kept
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Yes
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Edit own profile
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Browse games & play games
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Take the Shark Challenge
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X
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X
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Yes
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Play Supershark
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X
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X
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Yes
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Browse all courses
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Yes
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Yes
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Only in Free Play
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'Administrators':
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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.
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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.
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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:
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A list of staff that are going to use Wordshark, and their emails
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Names of 'groups' that each of the teachers with work with
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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:
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Add/edit/share their own groups
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Populate their own groups from a general list or add new students
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Perform teacher functions such as Set Work, reset Supershark, reset Shark Challenge, create lists and courses and share these, look at student records
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Browse games, courses and word lists
'Students' can:
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Access Supershark (default)
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Access Supershark and any Set Work
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Access Supershark and any Set Work, and all other courses – using the Switch button – (but only if granted Free Play by the teacher/administrator)
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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