Instructors and staff accounts
Who can sign in, what they can do, and plan limits.
There are two kinds of people on your team. A staff account can sign in to the admin portal. A teacher is simply someone you can assign to classes; they do not need a sign-in at all.
Roles
- Admin: full access, including settings, payments and cancelling the subscription.
- Instructor (staff): for teaching staff, who sign in to see the calendar, rosters and the classes they teach. Only an Admin can cancel the subscription.
Add someone
- 1Open Staff Accounts and choose Add Staff Account
- 2Enter their name and email, and choose Admin or InstructorThey receive an email to set their own password: you never see or set it. If that email already has an account with Bright Panda, it is simply linked to your school instead.
- 3Assign them to classesWhen you schedule a semester or a camp you choose the instructor from the list.
Use the menu on a staff row to choose Reset Password (emails them a link to set a new one; their old password keeps working until they use it) or to remove their access. Removing access does not delete their past classes.
The first time a new Admin signs in, they are asked to read and accept the Bright Panda Terms of Service before they can use the portal. A record of each acceptance is kept. Instructors are not asked.
Your plan limits how many teachers, students and staff sign-ins you can have (for example, Starter allows 3 teachers, 50 students and 1 staff login). When you reach a limit you are asked to upgrade.