Getting started
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Your first week
Five things to do in your first week, in the order that saves you time, with the article for each one.
Make one thing, share one link, see what comes back.
Who an account is for
An account is for the person who teaches: a tutor, a teacher, a lecturer, or someone who runs a tutoring business. You make things, and you share them.
The people you teach do not need an account. The sign-in page says so in one line: teachers only, learners join with a code, no account needed. Keep that in mind when you plan your first lesson. You never have to collect a learner's email address or ask a parent to create anything.
The first week, in order
Create your account and confirm your email
Sign up with an email address and a password, or with Google. With an email address, open the confirmation email before you try to sign in: the link works once and lasts 24 hours.
Make a board
A whiteboard is the quickest thing to make and share. On a paid plan it saves itself as you work, and you find it again under My boards.
Build your first ladder
A Quest Ladder is a set of practice steps a learner climbs. Start from a question type, put a few questions in a ladder, and create a delivery to get a link.
Share one link and watch it come back
Send the link to a learner or put it on a screen in the room. Anyone with the link can play, without signing in. Play it yourself first, as a learner would, so you know what they will see.
Decide whether you need a class
A class is optional. It gives each learner their own link and lets you follow each one by a handle rather than as a total. If your school uses Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard or Brightspace, your administrator can connect it instead.
Nothing here has to be done in one sitting, and nothing has to be done in this order. The order is simply the one that gets something useful in front of a learner soonest.
What your learners need
A link. That is all. A plain link to a ladder, a board or a lab asks the learner for nothing. If you later give each learner a personal link from a class, the first time they open it they choose a password, so their work is saved under their handle. They can always choose Continue without saving and carry on without being identified.
Joining without an account explains what a learner sees and what is kept.
If you get stuck
Search this help centre first: the box at the top of the Support Centre searches every article. If the answer is not here, use the Help & feedback corner on the page where it went wrong, or write to us. Getting help and reporting a problem explains which to use when.
Everything in this section
Your account
- Creating your account and signing inThe form, the confirmation email and Google.
- When you cannot sign inEvery message, and what to do.
Your first things
- Making, saving and finding a boardCreate, autosave, save to a file, find it again.
- Your first Quest LadderA question type, a ladder, a delivery, a link.
- Connecting your learning platformLTI 1.3 for an organisation's administrator.
Help