The Administrator account, available with SpacesEDU Pro, provides a range of features for managing staff accounts, including:

• Inviting new teachers or administrators
• Editing account details and resetting passwords
• Managing access to schools and classes

This article outlines the various levels of administrator access in SpacesEDU and how you can use the administrator account to manage staff access.

Administrator Account Types and Access Levels

District Administrators (Full Permissions):

• Manage all schools within the district
• Approve/edit staff
• Invite district/school admins and teachers
• Use teacher accounts for any school
• Run rostering imports (Note: Only SpacesEDU Support can create full-permission district admin accounts)
• Create or modify Portfolio Templates, if this feature is enabled for your district

District Administrators (Limited Permissions):

• Same access as 'Full Permissions', except:
• Cannot invite other district admins or run rostering imports
• Cannot create or modify Portfolio Templates

School Administrators:

• Manage staff/students for their school(s)
• May have access to multiple schools
• Admins with full permissions can invite other school admins, run rostering imports
• Admins with limited permissions can only invite teachers
• School Admins cannot create or modify Portfolio Templates

Approving and Inviting Staff

Teachers from any school can access the free version of SpacesEDU. Once a school or district has licensed SpacesEDU Pro, new teacher accounts must be approved by an administrator (or imported through rostering) to ensure that only authorized personnel have access to the school.

If you have access to a SpacesEDU Admin account, you will receive notifications via email for any new teachers requesting approval for schools within your district.

You do not need to approve accounts for teachers that have been imported via rostering - only teachers that have manually signed up for an account, or been invited by a co-teacher.

To approve a request:

1. Open the email and click View
2. Log in to your admin account
3. If the list of teacher requests does not immediately populate, click the red Teacher Requests button
4. Click the blue Approve button to approve or reject the request with the grey X, or click Approve All Accounts to approve all pending requests
5. Within the pending requests screen, you will see two types of accounts:

a. Active Accounts are the teachers who have already logged in and created an account, but are not yet approved for access to the school

b. Invited Accounts are teachers who have been sent an invitation by another co-teacher, but haven't logged in yet

c. The Approve All option will only approve the requests on the tab you're viewing (either Active or Invited)

Who do I need to approve?

Teachers require approval when they create a new account at a licensed SpacesEDU Pro school, or when another teacher invites them to a class at a school where they haven't been approved.

The approval step can be bypassed in one of two ways:

1. With a rostering import, any teachers included in the rostering data are automatically approved for access to their school(s)
2. Staff invited by an admin are automatically approved

To invite a new staff member from an Admin account:

1. Open the Staff page in the left-hand menu
2. Click Add Staff
3. Select the school(s) you wish to provide access to, or choose the district name for a district admin invite ( only available if you are a district admin with Full Permissions)
4. Select the account type (Teacher/Admin)
5. Optional - for teachers, you can select classes to give access to at the time of the invitation
6. Click Send Invite

Staff members invited using the steps above will receive an email notification prompting them to create their account.

Additional notes:

• If a staff member already has an account with the same email, these steps will update their existing account, not create a new one.
• If they don't receive the email invite and sign up manually at spacesedu.com, they'll still be automatically approved as long as they use the same email address as the invitation.
• When enabling SpacesEDU Pro, we'll need to set up at least one district admin account, and the admin will approve any existing free teacher accounts.
• If staff used a personal email when signing up, ask them to update it in Account Settings or follow the instructions below to update their email.

Managing Staff Accounts

This section explains how to complete some common staff management tasks from the Admin account.

For districts using SpacesEDU Pro with SIS Sync, teachers are automatically added to their new school and removed from their previous school using the rostering data. In other words, with SIS Sync you don't need to worry about manually updating schools for most teachers as an administrator, but you do still have the option to manage staff from your account.

How can I update a teacher's account if they've changed schools?

To update the school(s) for a staff member (teacher or school admin):

1. Open the Staff page
2. Find the staff member and click the menu button (three dots) on the right
3. Click Edit Account
4. Click the Schools and Accounts tab
5. Click Add School Record
6. Select their new school and account type, then click Add Record

Additional notes for updating school associations:

• We recommend that you keep the teacher's association with their old school if they still need access to previous class information.
• When you're sure a teacher no longer needs access to their old classes, you can delete their previous school association by clicking the delete icon (trash bin) and typing 'delete' for confirmation.
• You can also click the Delete Account option to fully delete their teacher account if they are no longer employed with your district/school.
• Removed or deleted teachers will immediately lose access to their classes, posts, and other content from that school.
• Students can still access posts from those classes in their All Work Feed if their school uses SpacesEDU Pro. Teacher posts will no longer display the teacher's name, and instead show 'Deleted' or 'Removed' User.
• If necessary, you can give a teacher admin access by adding an admin record.
• District Admin records can only be added by District Admins with Full Permissions.
• When updating a district admin account, you can't add a School Admin record because they already have access to all schools.
• District admins also have teacher access for all schools by default.

How can I add a teacher to a class, or remove one?

As an admin, you can add or remove teachers from classes with the following steps:

1. Click Staff on the left-hand side of the page
2. Find the staff member and click the menu button (three dots) on the right
3. Click Edit Account
4. Click the Schools and Accounts tab
5. Click the Edit button (pencil) on an existing teacher record, or add a school record if needed
6. Click Edit Classes
7. Check off any class(es) you want to add the teacher to, or uncheck any that you want to remove
8. Click Save Changes

Additional notes for class management:

• Once removed from a class, teachers can't access any class content. They can rejoin if an admin adds them or a co-teacher invites them.
• If you see no teacher names below a class, it means there are no active teachers—either they've all been removed or the rostered teachers for the class haven't logged in yet.
• Archived classes don't show when adding classes from an admin account. Teachers will need to unarchive them first.
• This feature is handy for admins when teachers accidentally remove themselves from a class. Admins can quickly add them back using the steps above.

How can I update a teacher's name or email address?

To update their name or email, staff can log in, click their initials or avatar at the top right, then select Account Settings.

Admins can also update this information:

1. Go to the Staff section on the left-hand side of the page
2. Find the staff member and click the menu button (three dots) on the right
3. Select Edit Account
4. Update the necessary fields and click Save Changes

Additional notes when updating teacher information:

• Updating a teacher’s email address will prompt them to validate the new address.
• Even for schools using Single Sign-On (SSO), you can update an email using the steps mentioned above. For instance, if a staff member initially signed up with the wrong email or their school email changed, you can correct it.
• However, it's not advisable to change an existing account's email to a different email from their SSO username. While it may not stop them from using SSO to log in, it could lead to future issues with duplicate accounts.

How can I reset a teacher's password?

Resetting Non-Single Sign-On Passwords:

• Click Staff on the left-hand side
• Find the staff member and click the three dots menu
• Select Reset Password
• Enter the new password twice and click Reset Password

Resetting Single Sign-On Passwords:

• Single Sign-On (SSO) passwords can only be reset through your IT department or account management system (e.g., Google Workspace, Microsoft Azure AD).
• Please contact your IT department for assistance with SSO password resets, or follow their established password reset process.

Still have questions about using your Admin account? Send us a message in the bottom left corner of your screen, or check out one of these related articles:

• How can I manage students with my administrator account?
• Importing Class Rosters with CSV Import Setup

Updated on: 28/05/2025