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Let older students have their own login
A screen recording of Pearspark doing exactly this in a sample school, and the same 10 steps written out below in the labels you'll see on screen.
How to let older students have their own login
- 1Click Settings under Administration in the sidebar, then open the "Planner & families" section
- 2Scroll to "Student logins" and read what a student account shows and what stays with parents
- 3Tick "Allow student logins"
- 4Set "Youngest grade allowed" (for example "Grade 6 and up") — no student below it, or with no grade on file, can sign in, whoever entered their email
- 5Click Save
- 6Each parent now sees a "<child>'s own login" card on their child's page in the family portal: they type the child's own email and click "Give <child> a login"
- 7Or type an address yourself: open the student, click Edit, fill in "Login email" and click Save changes
- 8Until a parent approves, the student's page shows the login with "Waiting for a parent to approve" (an imported address waits the same way)
- 9The parent opens their child's page in the portal and clicks "Approve <child>'s login"; the invite goes out then, and Send invites skips these students until they approve
- 10To stop all student sign-ins, untick "Allow student logins" and click Save
Part of Family & student portals
One login per parent, covering every child: grades, attendance, this week's plans, library books, and invoices — and a student portal that answers "what do I owe and when."
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