With a SpacesEDU Administrator account, you automatically have full access to view and manage the classes for your school or district. Just select a school at the top left of your screen, and click the Classes link to get started.
From this page, you can see:
The Class Name for all active classes at your school
Clicking the Class Name header will change the sort order
For classes with a name imported via rostering, the imported name will be shown below the display name for the class
Note: this list does not include archived classes
The names of any teacher(s) linked with the class
The class grade(s)
The number of students and family members linked with the class
Schools using the Reporting Spaces feature also have a button to open the class Reporting Space on the right-hand side of the screen
Clicking on a class name will open a new tab with the class you've selected, including the same Spaces and People pages as what teachers in the class would see.
Once you've finished working with a class, simply close the tab or change tabs in your browser to return to your admin account.
You can have multiple class tabs open, but to avoid unintentionally updating the wrong class, we recommend closing the tab once you've finished working with a class.
What can I do with the class view as an administrator?
With a few exceptions outlined in the next section, the class view for administrators generally works the same way and has the same access as teachers in the class.
From the Spaces page, you can access the Class Space and Feed, and any additional Spaces in the class.
This section allows administrators to directly engage with students in each class, by viewing posts, commenting and reacting, and adding or updating curriculum tags.
Comments from administrators are labelled:
Administrators can also download media attachments, update proficiency levels on posts, and manage curriculum tags and goals for a class. They can also delete any comments or posts in a class.
For schools using Reporting Spaces, administrators have full access to each Reporting Space, with the option to add or remove posts from students' Reporting Spaces.
Both the Spaces page and the People section include valuable options to manage class settings, and help troubleshoot questions from other staff.
This includes adding or removing students from individual or group spaces, and archiving classes.
For classes that are not rostered via SIS Sync, admins can access the class code to invite students, and invite co-teachers from the class view. However, the Staff and Students pages within the admin account provide a more direct way to update the students and teachers for each class.
What can't administrators do in the class view?
There are a few limitations to be aware of with the class view in the administrator account.
As a general rule, it allows commenting, reacting, and editing any content or settings within classes. It does not allow creating new posts, Spaces, or messaging.
If administrators do require this access for certain specific classes, they can always add themselves as a co-teacher - either with an invitation in the People tab, or via the Staff page in their admin account.
The Create option at the bottom right for teachers to create new posts or activities is not available for administrators, nor is the option to copy posts.
Admins do not have access to the Messages or Portfolios features within the class view.
Admins also do not have direct access to view or edit activities for a class. However, they can view activity instructions for published posts by clicking the activity name at the top of the post.
There are also elements of the teacher account that do not exist in the class view, simply because they are not applicable:
The 'Home' button to view all classes is not present at the top left. To open another class, simply close your browser tab and return to the tab with the Classes page in your admin account.
There is no option to leave the class, since administrators have access to all active classes at the school. To remove an unwanted class for all administrators and co-teachers, you can click the class name at the top left, then Archive Class.
The Notifications section is not available, because admins do not receive notifications for all class activity within their school(s). Notifications can be viewed within the Admin and/or Teacher interface, if the administrator is also a co-teacher for some classes.