Adding students to a class

Students belong to a class, not to a single assignment. However somebody gets in — they read a code off the projector, they click an email invite, you create an account for them — they land on that class’s roster and they are in every assignment that class has, the ones you have already published and the ones you publish next term.

All of it lives behind one set of controls, and you can reach them from two places. A class page has a How students join tab and a Co-teachers tab; an assignment’s Share button opens Share assignment, which shows the class the assignment is ASSIGNED TO (1) and then the same two tabs (2) below it.

The rest of this page describes the class page. The dialog behaves identically — anything you change in one is in effect in the other, because both are editing the class.

Let students join themselves

The How students join tab opens on the class access code (1) and the join link (2). Both do the same job, so hand out whichever suits the room: Copy code to paste the five characters into a message, Copy to send the link. The card names the page students type the code into, mindomo.com/join, so you can read that aloud with the code.

New (next to Copy code) issues a fresh code. The Students can join with a code toggle (3) governs both the code and the link at once, and Students join from shared classroom devices (4) changes how sessions behave for everybody in the class.

Caution

New takes effect immediately and without asking. The old code and the old link stop working the moment you click it, so anything you have already written on the board, mailed out or printed is dead — reissue only when you actually want to lock out whoever has the old one.

Scan to join

The Scan to join card holds the same join link as a QR code. Project fullscreen puts it on the big screen, Download saves the image so you can drop it into a slide, and Print produces a paper copy for the wall. Students open it with a phone camera.

Turning self-service off

Switch Students can join with a code off and the code, link and QR cards disappear altogether, replaced by a line explaining what changed: Joining with the code is turned off — the class code and join link won’t work.

Info

Turning the code off does not close the class. Every method in Add students below still works — invites, generated accounts and CSV imports all bypass the code entirely. This is the setting for a roster you want to control yourself, not a way to freeze the class.

Shared classroom devices

Students join from shared classroom devices is for a trolley of laptops or a lab bench rather than personal accounts. With it on, sessions on those devices end after the school day, a student who has sat idle has to confirm who they are before carrying on, and switching to the next student is one tap. It applies to everyone who joins the class, including students signing in with their own account.

Add students yourself

Under ADD STUDENTS are four ways to put students on the roster without them doing anything. Each one is a row that opens when you click it.

Invite by email

Paste addresses into the field (1) — separated by commas or new lines — and each one turns into a chip as you go. Then Send invites (2).

A summary dialog counts what happened and lists every address, each tagged with the outcome — (new account) for an address Mindomo has not seen before. The row’s own note explains the difference the tags record: an address that already has a Mindomo account is added to the class instantly, and everyone else joins once they click the invitation and create an account with that same address.

Create accounts (no email)

This row exists for younger students and classrooms where nobody has an email address. Paste names instead (1) — again separated by commas or new lines — and Create accounts (2) makes one account per name, each with its own four-digit PIN, and enrols them all in the class.

You get a sheet of names and PINs back, with Download CSV (1) and Print (2).

Caution

Accounts created. Hand out the PINs now — they are not shown again. Take that literally: close this dialog without saving the sheet and the PINs are gone. Download or print it before you click Done. A PIN can be reset afterwards from the roster, but it cannot be looked up.

A name that is already on the roster is skipped rather than duplicated, and the sheet says so above the table: 1 name(s) were already in this class and were skipped.

Import a CSV

Invite by email and Create accounts (no email) both have an Upload CSV mode (1) alongside Paste, with the same drop zone (2): drag a file onto it or click Choose a file. The file wants one entry per row — one email, or a column named email, for invites; one name per row, or comma-separated, for accounts — and may be up to 5 MB.

Choosing the file starts the import; there is nothing else to click. A card appears above the roster tracking it, and the roster fills in underneath while it runs, so you can carry on working or close the dialog and come back.

A names import ends the same way a pasted list does, with the PIN sheet, and the finished card carries a View logins action for as long as it is on screen. The card goes away once you dismiss it, so treat that as the same one chance to save the PINs.

Add from Google Classroom

If your roster already exists in Google Classroom, this row imports it. The first time, Connect Google Classroom sends you through a Google sign-in and returns you to this same page; after that you pick one of your Google Classroom courses and bring its students across. See Google Classroom for what else the integration does.

Add Students from school

School accounts get a fourth row that draws on the roster your school administrator maintains — including students with PIN accounts — so students who already exist in the school do not have to be created twice. If nobody has been added to the school yet, the row says so: You haven’t yet added students to this school. School administration covers filling it.

What the roster tells you

Whichever route they came by, students land on the class’s Students tab. An email invite sits at Invited (1) until the student accepts it; anyone who is actually in the class reads Joined (2). Accounts you created show No email (PIN account) where the address would be.

Selecting rows puts a bar at the top of the list with Select all, Reset PIN and Remove from class — removing a student keeps their assignment work.

Co-teachers

The Co-teachers tab invites colleagues the same way the student rows do: addresses into the field (3), then Send invites. Each one appears as a row (1) with an Invited pill until they accept, and the × (2) removes them again.

A co-teacher can do nearly everything you can: they see the roster and can view and grade student work. What they cannot do is delete the class.

Where to go next

• Joining a class — the code, the link and the PIN from the student’s side.
• Create an assignment — publishing work to the class you have just filled.
• Reviewing & grading — following what the class does next.
• Assignments — how assignments and classes fit together.
• Google Classroom and School administration — the two rosters Mindomo can import from.
• Teacher package and School package — the plans that include classes.