With your Group Educational Subscription, Wordsmyth provides 2 services for you:
(1) School URL: for example, www.wordsmyth.net/school/your_school_name/
The school URL is an access point for dictionary services for your students. Using this URL, your students have access to all subscriber features available (including Ad Free pages). No login is required.
(2) Class URL: for example, www.wordsmyth.net/school/your_school_name/class/class_name
The class URL is used by students only to have access to activities assigned by the Teacher. Each student has to be logged in to the Class. But registration in a Class is much easier than normal Wordsmyth user registration. Only the name is a required field. Students can easily implement this kind of registration by themselves.
The School URL is your students’ access point for all Wordsmyth dictionaries
Each Wordsmyth Education Group subscription comes with a unique School URL, which will look similar to www.wordsmyth.net/school/your_school_name. This School URL is where you and all your students get access to full Wordsmyth premium features, ad-free.
The school URL allows young students to use Wordsmyth to its full potential without requiring registration with an email address. This means that students are not required to log in on your School URL, and Wordsmyth doesn’t collect your students’ personal information. Only teachers need to register with Wordsmyth, in order to get access to the Teacher Tools.
Please note:
- Be sure to stay on your school URL all the time. When you or your students go to the main Wordsmyth URL (www.wordsmyth.net) instead of your school URL, you won’t have access to subscriber privileges.
- For teachers, your personal data are all saved with your Wordsmyth account. When you are logged in, your look-up history and your wordlists are available for you wherever you are, on the main Wordsmyth website (www.wordsmyth.net) or on your school URL. If you move to a new school, your personal data will still be available on your new school URL as soon as you log in to your Wordsmyth account.
The Class URL is for students to access their vocabulary assignments
When you create a class, a Class URL is created. This Class URL is to be shared with your students. Please see this help document – Teacher Tools: classes – for more information about class creation. The Class URL is where your students view and complete their assignments. If you are a teacher using Teacher Tools on your school URL, your class URL will look something like this:
www.wordsmyth.net/school/your_school_name/class/class_name
Students have to log in to their respective classes. But registration for a class is very simple, and does not require an email address. The name is the only required field. If you want to register your students, please read this help document – Teacher Tools: Students – for more information.
You can also share this Quick Start Guide for students to help your students to register themselves and get started on their assignments. The guide is written in simple language, with screenshots. Your students should be able to read it without too much trouble.
Relink class URLs to School URL
Individual subscribers also have access to teacher Tools, which are often used by parents with their children. If an individual user creates a class on the Wordsmyth URL (www.wordsmyth.net), the class URL looks different:
www.wordsmyth.net/teacher/your_user_name/class/class_name
Sometimes, a teacher may try out Wordsmyth Teacher Tools with an individual subscription, and later decide to upgrade to an Education Group subscription. Sometimes, a teacher with an existing group subscription accidentally creates a class on the Wordsmyth URL, since the interface looks the same. In those cases, you can easily move your class to your school URL.
- Be sure you are on your school URL, logged in to your account.
- Go to the “Classes” page, clear the filter to see all the classes you created.
- click on the class you want to move to your school URL; inside the popup class information window click [edit]
- Click the blue prompt text on the top: [Link the class to school URL for “Wordsmyth” and unlink from your personal Teacher URL], and your class will be moved to your school URL.
