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Making a Class, Inviting Students, and Managing the Roster
Making a Class, Inviting Students, and Managing the Roster

Creating a class and inviting students takes just minutes.

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Written by Trevor Register
Updated over a week ago

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Create a Class

  1. Click My Classes

  2. Click +Add Class

  1. Enter the name of your class.

  2. Set the End Date for your class. It will default to 365 days in the future from the date of creation.

  3. Click Create to finalize your class.

Once the End Date for the class arrives, all students will be dropped from your class. This ensures that these enrollments don't count against your seat usage once your class has concluded. Student work is retained and can still be viewed afterward.

Invite students to your class

If you are integrating Pivot Interactives with an LMS such as Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, or D2L/Brightspace, students should instead click a linked assignment within your LMS. This will automatically place them in the correct class and will ensure that their grades are correctly synced.

First, navigate to your class roster and details.

  1. Click My Classes

  2. Click View Class & Roster

The top of this page contains your class details overview.

There are two ways for students to join your Pivot Interactives class:

Distribute the Class Key to students.

Here's how students can use the Class Key to join your Pivot Interactives class:

  1. Navigate to our website at https://www.pivotinteractives.com/

  2. Click Join Class

  3. Enter the Class Key, confirm that the class is correct, then click Continue.

  4. (Optional) If you are on a student-pay license, students will then be prompted for payment.

Distribute the Join Class Link to students.

Here's how students can use the Join Class Link to join your Pivot Interactives class:

  1. Click the Join Class Link.

  2. Confirm that the class is correct, then click Continue.

  3. (Optional) If you are on a student-pay license, students will then be prompted for payment.
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Managing your class roster

From the Class Assignments page, click on View Class and Roster to manage your course. Your student information is located under the course details.

From this screen, you can perform a variety of tasks to manage your roster:

1) Change a student's password

IMPORTANT: A recent change to SSO-managed accounts has changed how instructors and students may reset passwords. If your account is managed by an SSO (Clever, ClassLink, Google, or Microsoft), your password is managed by your SSO provider. You can not reset a student's password if it is set by an SSO. If you have additional questions, please contact us in the chat.

  1. Students can change their personally-set password by clicking Forgot Password on the login page. This will send a password reset email to the address they used to create their account. If the institution blocks outside emails, the student will not receive the password reset email.

  2. Students can also change their password or account email by logging in, clicking their name in the top left of the screen, and clicking Profile. Enter a new password and or email, and press save.

  3. Instructors can change students' passwords or emails by viewing the roster and clicking Update Profile. Enter a new password into the box labeled "password." When the password is changed, the student will receive an email saying the password has been changed, but the email will not contain the password. The instructor must tell the student the new password.

2) Drop or restore students

  1. The class roster is located under the class details in the Students list. Once you see the class roster, click Drop to move students from the list of active students to the list of dropped students.

  2. To restore a student, click Restore next to the student's name in the Dropped Student List.

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