As the school year begins, there is always a lot to figure out. Students are changing classes daily while getting into the rhythm of the school year. Amplify’s Onboarding Portal allows you to manage the logistics of your classroom as you prepare for and start the school year. As a teacher, you can use the portal to confirm your roster data, rename your sections, and create temporary student accounts for students who aren’t rostered correctly or don’t yet have an account.
Confirm Your Roster
As the first day of class approaches, it is important that all students hit the ground running. In order to do this, they must be rostered correctly in Amplify. The Onboarding Portal will allow you to look at each of your classes and make sure they contain all of your students. Once you have confirmed that your students are all there, please select “Yes” at the bottom of the screen to confirm that your roster entry data is correct. If there are students or sections missing, select “No” and notify your Roster Administrator of the missing student(s) or sections. You can also reach out to Amplify’s Customer Care Analysts for additional help at 1-800-823-1969 or through Amplify Chat.
Renaming Sections
When using Amplify, it is important to know which sections are which as you navigate through our platform. Each section will display with the name given by your district. These names can often be a long code that may be confusing. To ensure that you recognize each section, you can click on the Display Name for each section and name it whatever you’d like. Please note that this Display Name will show throughout the application and will be visible to students as you project.
Create Temporary Student Accounts
Throughout the school year, students are often added to your classroom. When this happens, your Roster Administrators are hard at work getting them set up with their school emails and properly enrolling them. Unfortunately, sometimes this doesn’t happen before the student joins your classroom. When students don’t have a login but are in your class, you can create a temporary student account by clicking “Add a Student” in your selected class to be used temporarily by this student.
Please note that these temporary student accounts are just that—temporary. They are not meant to be permanent but merely for students to follow along with the rest of the class. Any work submitted by students using a temporary account will not transfer to their permanent account. All work should be completed ON PAPER because you will not be able to see any work done online in either the Gradebook or Reporting for these temporary student accounts.
Once you have created the account, the username and password will appear at the top of the section. Hand this out to the student. The student can then click the “Log in with Amplify” button to log in with his or her temporary credentials. Upon logging in, the student will also be presented with a prompt notifying him or her that the account is temporary and that all work should be completed on paper.