Accessing your account details and school settings

Within the school account and settings space, teachers are able to view details regarding their school, check what settings have been applied to their school, access the Enrolment Portal and view/manage accounts in their school. For a comprehensive overview of each of these sections, read on below.

Accessing the Settings space

In order to access the Settings space where you’ll be able to view information relating to your personal account, as well as your schools account, click the gear icon towards the bottom of your left hand navigation when signed in.

Your account details

Your details page shows your username, first name, last name, email and status. Teachers and School Administrators can reset their passwords from here.

Reset password

Click the Reset password and the Reset Password dialog box appears. Click Send reset password email to continue.

An email with the reset password link is sent. Follow the steps to reset password.

Student passwords can be reset from the People page.

Your Teacher Certification

Here you can find an overview of your current teacher certification level, along with other teachers in your school. The EP Teacher Certification represents the skill level of a teacher using Education Perfect, taking into account how experienced they are in using key features.

You can find out more about this here.

School details

Here you’ll see key information like school name, location, and the academic year your school is set to follow. This information is editable by School Administrators.

School settings

The Settings tab shows a number of settings options, with your school’s current settings. This includes whether cheers or scoreboards are enabled for students, and whether teachers can share content externally. Invite settings for teachers and students can be configured from here. This information is editable by School Administrators.

Enrolment Portal

Our Enrolment Portal makes it easy to securely add classes to Education Perfect. Processing is quick, which means your students and teachers have access to EP as quickly as possible. This enrolment method is suitable for school-wide enrolments, single classes, student account creation, teacher account creation and everything in between! You’ll even be able to update existing classes and account details. More information regarding our Enrolment Portal can be found here.

People in your school

The People tab shows all EP accounts for your school. Here you can filter by role and status, and add new teachers or students. Clicking into a user takes you to their profile where you can edit some of their details, like name and email. If a user is deactivated, you’ll be able to reactivate them within their account. You can also reset students' passwords from here. Teachers will need to do this from their end via the Forgot Password flow from the login page.

Adding teachers and students

In the People page of the accounts area, School administrators and teachers can add both teachers and students.

Click Add, and select either Teachers or Students.
In the Add teachers dialog box, enter the teacher details. Note that the settings configured are by the School administrator, where the accepted domains and invite instructions are given.
Follow the same steps for inviting students by clicking Invite, select Students.
Enter the first name, last name and email address. Click Add.
Repeat to add multiple teachers/students. The teachers/ students are added to the list below.

You can edit the teacher/student details by simply clicking the list name at the bottom and edit, it automatically saves the details.

Click Send invite(s).

Please note:

Email addresses entered must be listed in the accepted domains
First name/ last name cannot be blank

Reset password for students with email address

In the People page, open the profile of a student that needs a password reset.

Click Reset password and the Reset password dialog box appears. Click Send reset password email to continue.

An email with the reset password link is sent to the student. They’ll need to follow the steps to reset their password.

Reset password for students with no email address

In the People page, open the profile of the student that needs a password reset. The Student details page appears. Click Generate temporary password.

The Reset password dialog box appears with a temporary password that the student can use. Teacher can copy this password and hand it over to the student.

Deactivate a teacher or a student

The deactivate option allows you to disable access to the teacher or student in a scenario where the teacher or student has left the school. You can always reactivate these accounts when required.

In the People page, open the profile of the teacher or student that needs to be deactivated. The profile details page appears. Click Deactivate.

The Deactivate confirmation dialog box appears to confirm the action. Click Deactivate.

The account is now deactivated.

Note that deactivating a teacher or student will remove them from all classes.

Reactivate a teacher or a student

You can always reactivate deactivated accounts when required.

In the People page, open the profile of the teacher or student that needs to be reactivated. The profile details page appears. Click Reactivate.

The Reactivate confirmation dialog box appears to confirm the action. Click Reactivate.

The account is now reactivated, however please note that the teacher/ student must be added to the class manually.

In order to add the teacher or student to their required classes, you can do so via the Classes area by locating the desired class and accessing the People tab. Here you will be able to search for their account and add them to the class.

Deactivating and reactivating a Teacher or a Student

Non-admin teachers can deactivate and reactivate student accounts.
School Administrators can deactivate and reactivate both teacher and student accounts.

School Administrators

The School Details area provides access to functionality for School Admins. This is a user type for school staff, and is tailored towards IT departments or administrators, and provides functionality to manage the school’s account. See more about this new role here.

School admins are able to manage their school’s subscription as well as having access to a new reporting area, which gives insights to how your school uses EP.

For any questions, contact our team.