Classes & the Academy

• Building and managing Academy courses

  Building and managing Academy courses Courses are the heart of the Academy: ordered sets of slides that students and team members click through to learn. SimplyPrint ships ready-made public courses, and on the right plan you can build your own with text, images, videos, quizzes and live embeds. This guide covers the difference between built-in and custom courses, how courses are organized, and how to create and publish your own.Few readers

• The Academy: built-in training and courses inside SimplyPrint

  The Academy: built-in training and courses inside SimplyPrint The Academy is a learning space that lives right inside your SimplyPrint account. It is where students and team members work through courses on 3D printing, slicing, design and your own internal procedures, and where teachers and admins assign required training, track progress and take attendance. This guide explains what the Academy is, who it is for, how it is built up, and which plan unlocks each piece.Few readers

• Attendance tracking in the Academy

  Attendance tracking in the Academy The Attendance tab lets you open a session and record who showed up - either by letting people sign themselves in, or by marking them present yourself. It is a lightweight register for a class period, a workshop or an onboarding session. This guide covers starting a session, how people sign in, marking attendance, and reading the roster.Few readers

• Course assignments: require courses for your students or team

  Course assignments: require courses for your students or team A course assignment ties one or more courses to a set of people and tells SimplyPrint they need to complete them. You can add a due date, require the courses before anyone is allowed to print, and ask people to sign off that they have understood the material. This guide covers creating an assignment, the options on it, what learners see, and how sign-off works.Few readers

• School classes: organize your students into cohorts

  School classes: organize your students into cohorts School classes let you group your students into cohorts (1.C, Year 9 Design, Robotics Club) so you can assign courses, route prints, set per-group quotas, and roll students forward each year without rebuilding your account from scratch. This guide covers the class list, the class editor, expiry and graduation roll-over, the per-user class limit, and how classes connect to Google Classroom and your SSO.Few readers

• Academy reports: track course progress and completions

  Academy reports: track course progress and completions The Reports tab in the Academy shows you how your students or team are getting on with their courses - who has finished, who has stalled, how long they took, and how they did on quizzes. This guide covers the overview dashboard, the per-course report, individual results, and the "finished suspiciously fast" flag.Few readers

Print approval, quotas & balance

• The quotas & limits feature: control how much your users can print

  The quotas & limits feature: control how much your users can print Quotas and limits let you set boundaries on how much each user or user group can print. You can cap the number of prints, material usage, cost, print time, and more - with automatic periodic resets so users get a fresh allowance each week, month, or on a custom schedule. You can also tie limits to a fixed date range, or just track usage without blocking anyone. This works the same whether you're running a school, a print farmFew readers

• The user balance feature: prepaid printing credits for your organization

  The user balance feature: prepaid printing credits for your organization The user balance feature lets you give each user a prepaid credit balance that gets charged when they print. You can use it to enforce prepaid printing - where users must have enough credits before they can start a job - or as a usage tracking tool for billing and invoicing.Few readers

Teacher, student & admin dashboards

• The student dashboard explained

  The student dashboard explained When a student opens SimplyPrint at /panel/dashboard, this is what they see. The student dashboard is a single, focused page built around three jobs: upload a file, see what's queued, and know who to ask for help. It's the page first-time students land on automatically, with no training needed. This guide walks through every widget on the page, what each one does, and how the student experience changes when you turn things on or off in settings.Few readers

• The teacher, student and admin dashboards: a classroom-ready landing page

  The teacher, student and admin dashboards: a classroom-ready landing page When a class of 30 students opens SimplyPrint, they shouldn't see the same screen as the teacher running the lab. The School plan ships a role-aware landing page at /panel/dashboard that automatically renders a different view depending on who's logged in: a focused upload-and-queue page for students, a control centre for teachers, and the same teacher view with a settings shortcut for admins and partners. This articleFew readers

• Customising dashboard links and the "who to ask" list

  Customising dashboard links and the "who to ask" list Two admin tools turn the student dashboard from a generic landing page into something tailored to your classroom: the Quick links bucket and the Teachers and admins selector. Both live under Settings -Organisation -School settings -Dashboards, and both apply to the student dashboard only. This guide covers how to set both up, what students see, and the small design decisions worth thinking through before you start addingFew readers

• Posting and managing the classroom bulletin board

  Posting and managing the classroom bulletin board The classroom bulletin board is a teacher-to-student broadcast that shows up on both the teacher and student dashboards. Use it to announce printer outages, project deadlines, open-lab hours, build plate changes — anything the whole class needs to know but doesn't deserve an email. Teachers write; students read. This article covers how to post, edit, schedule and delete bulletins, and what students see at the other end.Few readers

• Setting up your school dashboards

  Setting up your school dashboards The teacher / student dashboards work out of the box on a School account, but every setting is yours to tune. This guide walks you through the full configuration screen at Settings -Organisation -School settings -Dashboards: turning each dashboard on or off, picking widgets, choosing status cards for teachers, and previewing your changes before students or staff see them.Few readers

• The teacher dashboard explained

  The teacher dashboard explained The teacher dashboard at /panel/dashboard is the classroom control centre. Approve new student sign-ups, grant quota when a student runs out, see which printers need attention, broadcast a message to the whole class, review pending prints — all without leaving the page. This article walks through every widget on the teacher view, what it does, and how it ties into the rest of SimplyPrint.Few readers

Onboarding & running a school

• InCommon & eduGAIN membership and compatibility - SimplyPrint is InCommon and eduGAIN-ready (via WAYF)

  If your organization or school supports SSO via eduGAIN, InCommon, or WAYF, you can seamlessly use SimplyPrint as a service provider. What is eduGAIN? eduGAIN (Education Global Authentication Infrastructure) is a global service that connects national identity federations to facilitate secure, single sign-on access to academic and research resources worldwide. By linking over 80 federations and more than 8,000 identity and service providers, eduGAIN enables students, researchers, and stafFew readers

• Onboarding your school: getting students and teachers into SimplyPrint

  Onboarding your school: getting students and teachers into SimplyPrint Setting up SimplyPrint for a school or class? This guide walks through the whole workflow, from getting your teachers in first to bringing whole classes of students on board, organizing them, and keeping things tidy term after term. It points you to the right tool for each step so you can pick the path that fits your school.Few readers