Your students' access codes

When you manage your own list of students, they sign in without an email address and without a password: each one uses a personal Access code that you generate and hand out.

A class’s sign-in cards, ready to print and cut out.

One code per student, one shared link

From a student’s page, the Access code action opens everything you need:

• a sign-in link (and its QR Code), shared by all your students,
• a short code, personal to each student.

The student opens the link or scans the QR Code, types their code, and arrives in their space. Nothing to install, no email address. Under the code, the sign-in address is also written out in full, for a computer with no way to read a QR Code.

A student’s access code: shared link, QR Code and personal code.

Handing out the codes

Two ways to pass them on:

• Student by student: from their page you can Copy link, Copy code, or Print a small card.
• For the whole class: on a class’s page, Print login cards opens the Sign-in cards to print window. It produces one card per student, to print, cut out and hand round.

The same window carries two export buttons, Export as CSV and Export as JSON. They give you the list of students with their codes, for a mail merge or labels. The CSV file also carries the sign-in address on each line.

Regenerating a code

If a code goes missing, Regenerate creates a new one. The old one is invalidated straight away, so the student has to use the new one. If they are signed in at that moment, on the website or in the app, they are signed out.

Regenerating every code at once

When a batch of cards has gone round, or at the start of the year, you can redo the codes in bulk. The action is called Regenerate all codes, in the Actions menu, and its reach depends on where you launch it:

• from a class’s page, it only redoes the codes of that class,
• from the Students page, it redoes those of all your students.

Launched from a class, the confirmation names the class. The others are not touched.

Caution

The old codes stop working immediately, and signed-in students are signed out on the spot, even in the middle of a lesson. The cards already handed out have to be reprinted. This action cannot be undone.

Whatever your plan

If you work outside an establishment, access codes are open to you even on a free account. Creating students without being able to give them a way in would make no sense. The free account’s limit is on the free project, not on credentials. See The free project.

Note

In a space where learners sign up themselves, there is no access code: everyone signs in with their email address and their password. See Pupils or students.

On the student’s side, the steps to follow are described in Signing in to Moiki.