We recommend that teachers spend some time getting familiar with Studies Weekly Online. If you haven’t logged in yet, read this article for instructions.
This platform can be a great asset for teachers and students as you navigate remote learning, so we want to share our best practices. Here are some tips, tricks, and how-tos to improve your experience once you’ve logged in:
First, as a teacher you need to create a class before you can add students and give them logins. Teachers may create multiple classrooms. If you teach several grades or several classes of one grade, you can set up each as a separate online class.
Watch this video to learn more.
See the written steps in the How to Create a Classroom article.
Teachers can add publications to a classroom they have already created.
From your Studies Weekly Online account:
- On the Account Overview page, click the most recent classroom. Or on the left side navigation bar, click the Classes tab and select a classroom.
- Click the Add Publication Access button.
- In the Add Publication Access pop-up window, select the publication(s) you want to add to the classroom. Teachers should be able to see all the publications for your state. Search or filter by Subject and Grade to narrow it down.
- Click Add.
Teachers can add students to their Studies Weekly Online classes in multiple ways. To find the best option for you click on the hyperlinks below.
- Create one student at a time.
- Create multiple students at once.
- Add students using a CSV import.
- Add Students Using a Join Code.
- Import existing students from one of your other classrooms.
- Transfer students into your classroom from another teacher.
- Use Google Classroom to connect your students.
After teachers create a class, add publications, and create student logins, students are ready to learn.
- Send students their username and password.
- Send them a link to Studies Weekly Online: https://online.studiesweekly.com/.
For troubleshooting student account problems, read these articles:
- How to Login to Your Online Account
- How to Bulk Edit Student Accounts
- How to Generate Student Usernames and Passwords
- How to Transfer Students
Teachers can assign Studies Weekly Online weeks or individual assessments, articles, or other media (e.g., images, audio, video) to students in Google Classroom.
To link your Google Classroom students to Studies Weekly, there are two options:
- Ensure that existing students’ Studies Weekly usernames match their Google Classroom email addresses.
- Import new students from Google Classroom to Studies Weekly.
Note
The option to import Google Classroom students is not available for schools and districts with rostering like ClassLink or Clever.
See the How to Use Google Classroom with Studies Weekly article for more details. Then follow the directions in the How to Assign Content in Google Classroom article to begin assigning content!
For further instructions on using Studies Weekly Online, view the additional Getting Started articles or the search for other articles here.