Adding Your Students’ Data Yourself
If you would like to upload your student data yourself, you will first need to message us with:
- The email address of the person you would like to administer the account.
- A short code* you would like to use and the number of Child Accounts you would like to add.
*A short code is a unique identifier of four or more letters for your school, which will be used in children’s login details. For example, Redfern Public School uses the short code ‘redfern’ with logins ‘redfern1’, ‘redfern2’, and so on. Be mindful that it’s not too difficult for your youngest students to remember.
Once you have a confirmed short code
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Where to find this: Log in › Manage Accounts
- Add your teachers.
- Scroll down and add the class names that will require Child Accounts.
- In the top right of Manage Accounts, you will see the requested number of Child Accounts have been created and listed as ‘spares’. Click the orange use them now link.
- Follow the wizard that opens to assign the accounts to your students.
- On the last step of the wizard, you will be able to download login information and also personalised letters to send home to parents and guardians. Remember, students can use their accounts at home and school, through the website or our app.
- Although we run a Placement Test, you may want to suggest to teachers that they use their own assessment data to place children. Our test will only place children up to Level 7 (CVCC/CCVC words). If the level is too easy or too hard, children will lose interest and motivation. Here is how to change children’s levels and our orders of sounds.
- Use our Implementation Checklist to organise and action the tasks involved in ensuring every child is playing and getting in their much-needed phonics practice.
