Manage Classrooms (Teachers)

Teachers can create, view and manage classrooms using the Manage Classrooms tools in your Discovery Education dashboard.

If your district/school creates and updates student and educator accounts and classrooms using Bulk Import-Single Sign-On or another tool like Clever or ClassLink, all changes to classrooms should be made by your district IT staff.

Any manual changes to classrooms, student, or teacher accounts you make in your Experience dashboard will be eliminated in the next data sync.

Opening the All Classrooms Page

If you don't see the navigation pane on the left side of the screen, click the Global Nav icon on your Homepage.

When the navigation pane opens, select Classrooms.

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Creating a New Classroom

Any manual changes to classrooms, student, or teacher accounts you make in your Experience dashboard will be eliminated in the next data sync.

These directions begin from the All Classrooms page. If you are not sure where to find this from your Discovery Education Home page, click here to jump to directions.

From the All Classrooms page, select Create Class.

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When the Create Classroom window opens, type the classroom name and description (optional) and click Save.

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When the Manage Classroom page opens, click Edit Theme, select the image you want to add to your classroom, and click Save.

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Need to set up student sign-in methods? Click an article title below to open instructions.

Adding and Removing Students from a Classroom

Any manual changes to classrooms, student, or teacher accounts you make in your Experience dashboard will be eliminated in the next data sync.

There are a few ways to manually add and remove students from a classroom. Click the links below to open the directions you need.

If students have already been created in Discovery Education, you can enroll them in your classroom instead of creating a duplicate student account. Click here to open instructions.
Click here to learn how to create a student if they do not already exist in Discovery Education.
Click here to open directions to remove students from a classroom.

Adding and Removing Co-Teachers from a Classroom

Any manual changes to classrooms, student, or teacher accounts you make in your Experience dashboard will be eliminated in the next data sync.

Click the links below to open the directions you need.

Updating Classroom Name and Description

Any manual changes to classrooms, student, or teacher accounts you make in your Experience dashboard will be eliminated in the next data sync.

These directions begin from the All Classrooms page. If you are not sure where to find this from your Discovery Education Home page, click here to jump to directions.

From the All Classrooms page, click the three dots next to the name of the classroom you want to update and select Manage this class.

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When the Manage Classroom page opens, edit the classroom name and/or description and click Save to save your changes.

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Click Classrooms in the left navigation pane to see your changes on the All Classrooms page.

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Generating Individual or Classroom QR Codes

Students can use QR codes to sign in to Discovery Education regardless of the way they sign in with a text password. Teachers can generate or regenerate student QR codes for all or multiple students in a classroom using the Bulk Generate QR Code tool.

Teachers: Before you generate QR codes for students, make sure you understand the following:

The QR code you generate now will replace the QR codes your students may be currently using to sign in.
When teachers generate QR codes for a class they can save the class list of QR codes. This is the only time teachers will be able to do this for this set of QR codes. Do not skip this step.

Click the links below to open the resources or help article you need.

Learn more about QR sign-in codes in codes for students.
Generating and Printing QR Codes for a Classroom (Teachers)
How can I help students who lost their QR code?

Generating Individual or Classroom Direct Sign-in Text Passwords

Teachers can set or reset the Direct Login text passwords for all students in a classroom using the Bulk Reset Password tool. When teachers generate student passwords in bulk, they can also save a classroom list of student usernames and passwords.

Teachers: Before you set or reset passwords for your class, make sure you understand the following:

The passwords you create will replace the passwords your students may be currently using to sign in using Direct DE Login (They will not replace Single Sign-On (SSO) passwords).
When teachers set or reset passwords for a class they can save the class list of students' usernames and passwords. This is the only time teachers will be able to do this for this set of passwords. Do not skip this step.

Click the links below to open the resources or help article you need.

Articles in this section

Opening the All Classrooms Page

Creating a New Classroom

Adding and Removing Students from a Classroom

Adding and Removing Co-Teachers from a Classroom

Updating Classroom Name and Description

Generating Individual or Classroom QR Codes

Generating Individual or Classroom Direct Sign-in Text Passwords

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