Add and manage students

When you're done, the right people have a place on your course, and you can see how each of them is doing.

Who can do this: the account owner and editors, on the Academy plan. Only the account owner can delete a student from the Academy.

Students don't need a Chirp Builder account. They sign in on your Academy's pages with their email address and a code we email them.

Add students yourself

1. Open the course and click the Students tab.
2. Under Add students, type one student per line: an email address, or a name and email such as "Ada Lovelace, ada@example.com". Or click Load a CSV (1) to load a CSV or text file with an email column (save a spreadsheet as CSV first).
3. Email them an invitation (2) emails each of them a link to the course. It's on for a published course; turn it off to add them quietly. Before the course is published, nobody is emailed.
4. Tick I have these people's permission to add them and to email them about this course.
5. Click Add students.

You can add up to 500 people at a time, and up to 200 invitations go out at once: use Resend invite for anyone not emailed. Each student has the status Invited until they start the course.

Let students join on their own

Choose how in Course details, under How students join:

• They ask, you approve: students sign in on the course's page and click Ask for a place. Their request is at the top of the Students tab as Asked to join. Approve (1) gives them a place and emails them a link to the course. Decline (2) removes the request without telling them; they can ask again. We email the account owner about new requests, up to 10 an hour for each course.

  

• With a course code: on the Students tab, click Make a code. Give the code to your students; they sign in on the course's page and enter it. New code replaces it (the old one stops working), and Remove turns it off.

Look after your students

The list shows each student's status, progress and when they were last active. The labels at the top count them: Invited, Asked to join, Active, Completed and Access ended.

• Resend invite (1) emails the invitation again to someone who hasn't started.
• End place (2) takes away a student's access to this course. Their progress is kept, and Restore gives the place back.
• Delete removes the student from your whole Academy, with all their places, progress and certificates (their check pages stop working). It can't be undone; type their email to confirm.
• Click a student's name to see their record: see Reports and student records.
• Download CSV saves the list with each student's progress and quiz results.
• With more than five students, Find a student searches by name or email.

To give students a place on several courses in order, use a learning path.