Creating a New Class/Site
1. Login to the Ed. Portal.
2. Click on the cog in the top left hand side of the page.
3. Click “Create Site”
Make sure school is Hillcrest Christian College. Type in the name of your class. The type of site is a “Class site” unless you are creating an open community site. Select “Yes” (to the question of whether you want to copy from an existing site. Wait a couple of seconds for the list of classes to appear. Select the class you are copying, by finding the existing class and clicking on it. Select “Copy data” Click “Create”.
The site should have been created successfully.
Adding Members (Students/Teachers) to your Site
Once you have created your new site, you need to add your class to this site. This is fairly straight forward.
1. Click on the tab.
2. Click
3. Make sure the school is Hillcrest Christian College.
4. You can either type in the start of your class name…e.g. “Year 8” or find the class from the list here.
5. Click “Add”. On some computers, you need to see the dotted box around the class group
before it will let you add the class to your site.
6. Click “Save”.
7. Your users have now been added to your site.
8. You can also add other teachers to your site as well as make them joint administrators of this page.
9. Click “Add/Remove
Members”
10. Make sure the school
is Hillcrest Christian College.
11. Type in the name of
that person (either their last
name or first name) in the
space provided.
12. Click Search.
13. Once that person shows up, simply click “Add”
14. Click “Save”
Assigning a Fellow Teacher as an Administrator NOTE: You don’t have to assign yourself as an administrator to a class site
that you created. It does this automatically for you.
1. To add a teacher as an administrator to your site, click “Assign Administrators”
2. Wait a few seconds. This
page should appear.
3. Select the name of the
person from the list on the left to
add as an administrator.
4. Click “Add”
5. Click “Save”.
6. That person will now be
able to add to and edit your page
as if it were their own.