Can Young Students create their own account?

john_doubleday

I am a Design & Technology teacher in Australia. I am about to start a new unit where the students use drawing boards to draw the project, before starting the prac  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbXiuyb3-iI
Question 1: Can young students (Year 7 in Australia about 11 to 13 years ) create their own account if they have  a school email address.??? Tinker CAD they could not.  
Question 2: We are an ipad school. So do you think an 11 year old could draw the 2 D model plane in the link (above)

brucebartlett

Hi John,

I don't think there should be any problem with the students creating an account. However sometime they maybe locked out from using Onshape on the schools network. You will just have to make sure cad.onshape.com is available for them to have access with your IT department. 

If you start them with a simple sketch like the plane, could be a bit tricky for some as their are quite a few constraints to add to get it full defined. I.e turning all the line to black however would be a good challenge and some would crack it in no time. Once the side profile is drawn you could then get them to extrude it and make a drawing with dimensions.  Certainly all posible on an iPad with the touch screen however I'd prefer to us the browser based version with a mouse. 

Heres a start for your plane project https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a6c1ae599c38d130a4989d5b/w/46b23255b4d5d5b34cd2dbe0/e/e6d6c9b640e9c7f4def08d74

NeilCooke

Hi @john_doubleday - section 4 of the terms and conditions of use state that you must be 13 years of age to create an account. This is consistent with services like Facebook and I guess, TinkerCAD. If you have any questions relating to this you should contact compliance@onshape.com

https://www.onshape.com/terms-of-use

NeilCooke

I will pass your query on 

john_doubleday

Thanks both of you for such good service. I have sent  this question to compliance@onshape.com. We will see.
cheers
johnD

NeilCooke

@austin_haywardhave them check their spam/junk email filters.

If they are not receiving activation emails to complete registration, could your IT department be blocking the email? If this is the case, you can whitelist our IP / domain.

To whitelist Onshape email notifications:

Domain: outbound-email.onshape.com

IP address: 167.89.77.213

brucebartlett

Hi John,

I don't think there should be any problem with the students creating an account. However sometime they maybe locked out from using Onshape on the schools network. You will just have to make sure cad.onshape.com is available for them to have access with your IT department. 

If you start them with a simple sketch like the plane, could be a bit tricky for some as their are quite a few constraints to add to get it full defined. I.e turning all the line to black however would be a good challenge and some would crack it in no time. Once the side profile is drawn you could then get them to extrude it and make a drawing with dimensions.  Certainly all posible on an iPad with the touch screen however I'd prefer to us the browser based version with a mouse. 

Heres a start for your plane project https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a6c1ae599c38d130a4989d5b/w/46b23255b4d5d5b34cd2dbe0/e/e6d6c9b640e9c7f4def08d74

NeilCooke

Hi @john_doubleday - section 4 of the terms and conditions of use state that you must be 13 years of age to create an account. This is consistent with services like Facebook and I guess, TinkerCAD. If you have any questions relating to this you should contact compliance@onshape.com

https://www.onshape.com/terms-of-use

john_doubleday

The students all have ipads and school email. I believe there should be no problem with students accessing Tinker Cad or Onshape  from the school network only that IT may have to allow access for just those 2 web applications. If that were the  case, is there a system in Onshape to allow/create a Class, site or access area? because of the under age thing?
Thanks for your prompt reply both.

NeilCooke

I will pass your query on 

john_doubleday

Thanks both of you for such good service. I have sent  this question to compliance@onshape.com. We will see.
cheers
johnD

john_doubleday

brucebartlett said:

Hi John,

I don't think there should be any problem with the students creating an account. However sometime they maybe locked out from using Onshape on the schools network. You will just have to make sure cad.onshape.com is available for them to have access with your IT department. 

If you start them with a simple sketch like the plane, could be a bit tricky for some as their are quite a few constraints to add to get it full defined. I.e turning all the line to black however would be a good challenge and some would crack it in no time. Once the side profile is drawn you could then get them to extrude it and make a drawing with dimensions.  Certainly all posible on an iPad with the touch screen however I'd prefer to us the browser based version with a mouse. 

Heres a start for your plane project https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a6c1ae599c38d130a4989d5b/w/46b23255b4d5d5b34cd2dbe0/e/e6d6c9b640e9c7f4def08d74

Yes I think you are right. I will have to leave it until I get more confident myself. Learning curve is always steep for very different CAD programs...thanks for the tip.

austin_hayward

Hello My students are having problems creating an account with their school email.  Is there any solution to create accounts for the students.

NeilCooke

@austin_haywardhave them check their spam/junk email filters.

If they are not receiving activation emails to complete registration, could your IT department be blocking the email? If this is the case, you can whitelist our IP / domain.

To whitelist Onshape email notifications:

Domain: outbound-email.onshape.com

IP address: 167.89.77.213