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The Problems of the Week How to set up your students’ logins

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Before we get started: • Do you teach one class of students?

or • Do you have more than one class of students?

NOTE:

With a school or district membership, you have unlimited classes and unlimited student logins. What will work best for you?

Once you have thought about how many classes you need, what’s the best name? Suggestions:

Smith –math

or

Smith Period 1

or

Smith 5 th Grade

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Also, let’s think about your students’ logins: • Do you have a

username convention

to follow?

• Do you have a

password

chosen?

NOTE:

Usually if the students’ usernames are unique it’s easier to have them all have the same password. It has to be

5 characters

and so

math5

or something else that’s easy to remember, works well.

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Now that you have thought about: • • •

class

name(s)

usernames

for your students

passwords

for your students we’re ready to get started!

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First let’s login

1. Go to http://mathforum.org

2. Look for the button (near the center of the page).

3. Enter your

teacher

login.

4. You should be on a page that looks like this: 5. Click the

Manage my purchase

link.

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Setting up a class.

1. Now you should be on a page that looks like this: 1. Click the

Select

button next to

Create Class(es)

.

2. You should see this: 3. Enter a name for your class and click

Submit

.

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5. You should be back on this page: 6. Click the

Select

button next to

Create Student(s)

.

7. You should see something like this: 8.

Let’s think about 1. and then 2. on that page.

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9. My sample has two classes listed: Since I just made a new class “Demo 54” to show you how to do this, I’m going to choose it.

10. Next I should read what it explains about

Existing

vs

New

students: I know that my students have not used the PoWs before and so I’m going to start by clicking on

Create New Students.

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11. Now my page looks like this: I have my list of students, usernames, and passwords and I start to type them in the field.

Note:

You could copy/paste if you have a comma-separated list from another document.

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12.

Here’s how it might look: Note 1: I do NOT recommend that you enter email addresses for students. Note 2: Even though you type students’ last names in to set up their logins, their last names will NOT show publicly on our site. If we display a student’s solution, only their first name and last initial are visible.

Note 3: You can do one student at a time, five students at a time or any number of students you would like!

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13. Once I have the information entered, I click the

Preview Students

button and my page looks like this: There are two students’ usernames that I will need to edit so that they are unique. I decide to put a number after each.

Then it is important to click the

Add Students

button!

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14. After clicking the

Add Students

button, my page looks like this: Since I only created 5 students at first, I click on the

add more students or classes

link so that I can repeat the process and make logins for the rest of my students.

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Now that I’ve finished making all of my students’ logins, I can view the list from

My PoW Work as a Teacher

page. Notice that once you’ve created a class and students, your page has a lot more on it!

On the right side of the page, look for the link to your new class and when you click it, you will see your new student roster.