Teams & Public

PAH

Hello,
I am a teacher that is looking at trying Onshape with my grade 9 class. I created a team (currently empty). It shows on my home page public.
1. Does that mean the students work will be publicly available? I am concerned with the privacy laws we have. 
2. Next step for me is to add the students email. I do not see a button or way to add people to the team. Is there a guide to help me?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Paul

brian_brady

Paul,

You will need to have each student sign up for an Onshape Educational account. Once that is done, you will be able to add them into your team. After they convert their accounts to educational, they will be able to create private documents and they will not be seen by anybody except themselves and those they choose to share with.

PAH

Thank you to all that answered. I have sent a request to change my account to educational. I am now working through the lessons.
Thank you,
Paul

brian_brady

Paul,

You will need to have each student sign up for an Onshape Educational account. Once that is done, you will be able to add them into your team. After they convert their accounts to educational, they will be able to create private documents and they will not be seen by anybody except themselves and those they choose to share with.

lana

@PAH
It looks like you yourself need to upgrade your account to EDU

owen_sparks

@lana Would it be possible to have a differentiation between a student and a teacher account?  It'd be nice to see who is who on the forum and further down the road each might have different permissions as far as sharing / tools etc.

Cheers, Owen S.

brian_brady

owen_sparks said:

@lana Would it be possible to have a differentiation between a student and a teacher account?  It's be nice to see who is who on the forum and further down the road each might have different permissions as far as sharing / tools etc.

Cheers, Owen S.

Nice idea. Ideally something like Enterprise for schools/classes. The instructor is the admin. I would not mind at all if I had to provide a specific link to my instructor profile on our school website as proof that I am instructor in order to use the additional features. Would/could "enterprise for education" allow instructors to sign-up students if they don't have accounts? How does that work for enterprise users?

lana

I don't think we'll want to verify if the person opening teacher account is actually a teacher. We could just ask that teachers change their name in Onshape account to say <login>(teacher) - that would show up in the forum. 

PAH

Thank you to all that answered. I have sent a request to change my account to educational. I am now working through the lessons.
Thank you,
Paul

john_doubleday

Yes I am doing this at the moment. Good to read, thanks