Temporary Access to a Teacher Account
An Administrator can gain 'temporary' access to a teacher account to:
- amend/update the e-mail address
- following an admin / teacher 'switch' - share the teacher account own word lists
How to gain temporary access to a teacher account:
- Sign into the program as the Administrator
- Select ‘Groups & Users’
- Select ‘Manage Teachers’
- Locate the teacher and click on the ‘More’ arrow
- Select the user with the key
- A prompt will confirm that an e-mail will be sent allowing access for eight hours. Click OK to gain access:
- You will be taken to the log in screen for the teacher. NB: You have not been logged out as the admin this is a separate login within your signed in account.
- Locate the e-mail with the temporary password and enter this into the login box to sign in as the teacher
- Make any changes then sign off; you will be taken back to the admin account
If you do not wish to access the teacher account immediately you can click ‘Go to dashboard’ instead. You will find the teacher’s details are now displayed in red.
To access the teacher account later:
- Log in as the administrator
- Go to ‘Groups & Users’
- Select ‘Manage Teachers’
- Locate the teacher and click on the ‘More’ option
- The teacher access will now be displayed in red
- Select the key option
- You will be prompted to say that temporary access has already been gained. Click ‘Login’
- You will be taken to the login screen for the teacher
- Enter the temporary password received by e-mail earlier
Transferring 'own word lists' from teacher to admin profile:
Follow steps above to take temporary access of the teacher account then:
1) Go to own lists and share these (one by one) with the admin
2) Once they have been shared go back to the admin profile
3) Clone the lists to make them the admin's own
4) Go back to the teacher account to un-share or delete the original lists
5) Any lists that are part of set work cannot be deleted until the set work has been deletedDeleting the teacher account will delete the set work and own lists for that teacher.
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