Administration - Glossary

You can add teachers to your Tynker license by clicking the Add Teachers button on the teachers tab of the Admin page. You can add teachers individual...

Active licenses are found on the admin page under the licenses tab. Here you will see all of the licenses that you have, and all of the courses that t...

An agreement between the user and Tynker on how Tynker will be used by both parties.

A license gives you access to certain courses within Tynker for a specified period of time, and your license details can be found on the license tab o...

By importing multiple teachers, you are adding multiple teachers at the same time. You can do a mass upload using google sheets or a CSV file. There a...

The export option allows you to download all of the information that Tynker has regarding its user(s) for your school or district.

These are additional terms of use for educational institutions that outline in detail how students' records are managed and used.

You can add students to your Tynker license by clicking the Add Students button on the students tab of the Admin page. You can add students individual...

When you export teachers, this will download all of the teachers that are in the dashboard into a csv file.

Deactivating a teacher revokes teacher access to Tynker and removes the class. However, all of the projects created by the teacher are saved. Deactiva...

Activating a student gives them complete access to their Tynker student account.

The privacy policy provides detailed information on how information is used at Tynker.

When you “enable the community” you are allowing students to share projects publicly. This gives their parents/guardians and classmates to see what th...

When you “disable the community” students will no longer be public, and they will no longer be able to share their projects with their parents/guardia...

School metrics allows the administrator to see an overview of class progress for groups or individual teachers.

You can import all of your school data very easily. You can upload them using google sheets or a CSV file. There are also templates included to make t...

When you bulk unarchive a class, you are activating multiple classes that were previously stored and in a state of inactivity. This can be done by sel...

When you archive classes, you are saving them for future use. This places multiple classes in a state of inactivity. However, these classes will still...

This area in the first section of the admin page such as: the school name, address, and website.

When you deactivate students they will no longer have access to Tynker. However, their projects will still be saved. Deactivating a student does not f...

Activating a teacher gives a teacher complete access to their Teacher account.

You can assign classes to teachers using the Class page of the admin dashboard.

A Tynker Administrator can move students to other classrooms in the school through the bulk action menu in the top left.

The Delete option within the Privacy tab allows you to delete all of the information that Tynker has regarding its user(s) for your school or dist...

Check the following things with your district or schools ClassLink administrator: Are we currently sharing data with Tynker? Has Tynker been added to ...

Create a token for Tynker in Canvas Click on Account in Canvas Click on Settings Scroll to Approved Integrations Click on the New Access Token Fill in...