StudentKeeper: Quick Start Guide

This article provides essential resources to help you navigate and make the most of your StudentKeeper instance. Whether you're just getting started or looking to deepen your understanding, you'll find helpful links and overviews on signing in, managing classes and groups, using session controls, monitoring student activity through captures, and collaborating with notes. Use this guide as a central hub to explore key features and tools available to educators and administrators.

Table Of Contents:

1. Signing in to StudentKeeper
2. Classroom Navigation
3. Group Management
4. Session Controls
5. Captures
6. Notes

1.  Signing in to StudentKeeper

Manual Sign-in

StudentKeeper supports manually adding users. Please see this article for instructions:

• Roles and Permissions: How to Create and Edit a Custom User Role

Once activated, these users will use the email/password fields to login. 

Single Sign-On (SSO) Users

• Google SSO / Microsoft SSO is currently available for districts who have set it up. Please confirm with your administrative staff on which method you should use. 

2.  Classroom Navigation

Please review the following articles for Classroom functionality: 

• Starting and Stopping a Class
• Student Thumbnail View in Active Sessions
• Active Session Tools
• Allow and Block Lists

3.  Group Management

Groups (classes) can be imported through a sync with your SIS (Student Information System) and/or manually added. Synced groups and manually added groups can both be edited. Please see this article for more information: 

• Creating and Editing Groups

4.  Session Controls

Control of your class can be pre-configured through Session Controls. These controls can be set to apply automatically when you start a session, or manually when needed. For more information, please review this article: 

• How to Create, Edit and Delete Session Controls

5.  Captures

Captures are a safeguarding tool that can monitor student devices for trigger words or phrases that are set up from teachers (for local class monitoring) or from administrators (for certain groups or whole organizations). For more information, please review the following articles: 

• Generating Captures through Session Controls
• How to Create Notes through Captures
• Captures Overview (coming soon)

6.  Notes

Notes are easy-to-use collaboration tools for educators to efficiently manage both concerns and positive feedback for students. For more information, please review the following articles: 

• How to Create and View Notes
• ARIA Note Assistant