Teachers
What will I find in my teacher area?
Written by the TestFLE team.
In short
The sidebar of the teacher area leads to Home, Profile, Notifications and the Calendar, then to other entries depending on the moment and the school. Home brings together your students, your classes and the important alerts.
Who this is for, and what you need first
- Who this is for
- Teachers, and school administrators who teach a class, the first time they open their area.
- What you need first
- A teacher account activated by the first connection.
- Your school’s web address.
The steps
- Open your school’s web address and sign in. A teacher lands on the Home page of their area.
- Read the “Welcome” message followed by your name, then choose the “My students” or “My classes” tab.
- To change screens, click an entry in the sidebar, on the left.
- To leave, click “Log out”, at the top right of the screen.
If your account is not activated yet, the first connection of a teacher is done on the sign-in screen.
The sidebar entries
From top to bottom, the sidebar contains the following entries. The first four are always there, and so is “Help”. The others depend on the moment, on the school or on your account.
- “Home”. The starting page, with two tabs: “My students”, a table of the students in the classes you belong to, and “My classes”, the list of your classes. On the right, the “Important alerts” column is described in What are the Notifications bell and the Important alerts for?. Home is also where you open a test: the three dots on a student’s or a class’s row open their action menu.
- “Profile”. A window with your number, your name and the form to change your password. How do I change my password or the screen language? covers it in detail.
- “Notifications”. The bell, with the detail of the events in your classes and of the students whose level is dropping.
- “Calendar”. The calendar of your sessions. How do I read the calendar and add a session to my own calendar? explains it.
- “Live”. Only there when a session is to be followed, with a pulsing green dot.
- “Practice” and “Library”. Only there if the school has chosen these options.
- “PDF”. It only appears once you have opened a student’s sheet. It opens that student’s “PDF documents” list.
- “Admin”. Reserved for teachers who are also school administrators.
- “Help”. Pinned at the very bottom of the sidebar, below a line. It opens the teachers’ section of the Help Center in a new tab, in the language of the screen.
Going further
Understanding the settings and special cases
What changes for a teacher who is also an administrator?
In the teacher area, a teacher who is also an administrator sees their own classes and those classes’ students, like any colleague, and nothing more. The school’s other classes do not appear there: they manage them from their administration area.
When they sign in, they first land in that administration area. To reach the teacher area, they click the “Teacher area” tile. From the sidebar, the “Admin” entry takes them back the other way. An administrator who teaches no class, like Hélène Vautrin in the demo, finds a Home page with no students and no classes.
Why does the “Live” entry appear and then disappear?
“Live” lights up thirty minutes before the start of a class session, or of a one-time attempt, and goes out thirty minutes after its end. It takes you to the screen where you see live where the students are. An unlimited opening never lights it up, since it runs all the time. A one-time attempt with no end date stays followed as long as it has not been taken.
When the entry is missing, there is no session to follow at that moment. How do I follow students live while they take the test? describes the screen itself.
Practice and Library: two options
The rest of the area does not depend on any option. The other entries are the same for every school.
If the buttons to open a test are missing
The sidebar does not change with your rights, but the opening buttons do depend on them. If your school’s administrator has not entrusted you with opening tests, the menu of a student or a class says so (“Your institution has not granted you test opening. You can see the state, not change it.”). Ask them to grant you that right.
Related articles
- How do I change my password or the screen language?A teacher changes their password in the “Profile” window of the sidebar: at least 12 characters, without your username or your email address. You choose the screen language with the four flags in the footer.
- What are the Notifications bell and the Important alerts for?The “Notifications” bell lists the events in your classes and the students whose level is dropping, and the “Important alerts” column on the Home page adds the live test incidents. These are signals to check in class, not a judgement on a student.
- How do I find a student and read the Access column?In the “My students” tab of the home page, search for a student by name, reference, email or class, then filter the list. The “Access” column says in one sentence what the student can do with the test: “Can take the test”, “Blocked”, “Absent” or “Nothing planned”.
- How do I sign in for the first time?A student activates their account themselves, with “First connection” on their school’s sign-in screen. They enter the email address and the school reference given by the school, then choose their username and a password of at least 8 characters.