There are four ways to add students to your course:

In the remainder of this article we explain each of these methods in detail. In addition, we list some Frequently Asked Questions on adding students.

The easiest way to add students to your course is by publishing a link that automatically grants access to the course. You can publish this link on your online Learning Management System, or you can email this link to your students.

When the students follow this link, they will be asked to create an account. This account then immediately has access to your course.

Remember, everyone with access to the link has access to your course.

To create such a link you need to log in to your teacher dashboard.

If you are a teacher in the selected course you can edit the course-link for this course (tutors do not have access to this functionality for now). This can be done by clicking on the edit course link button:

This will transfer you to a new page on which you can create a new course link if there is no course link:

or you can edit the existing course link:

As you can see from the screenshot above you can de-activate an active course link, or activate an inactive course link after creation. With this functionality you can, for example, close or open the enrolment of students in a course.

To add students manually, you need to log in to your teacher dashboard.

1. Log in at the platform

2. Click on 'Monitor' in the upper right of the screen

You can now start adding students.

3. Click on 'Add Student'

4. Fill in the name, email address (and student-id) of the student.

NOTE: The student-id only needs to be given if your organisation allows for processing student-ids within Grasple. Reach out to us for questions about this.

5. Click 'Add Student'

6. You should now see the student appear in your list of students

NOTE: if you are unable to sent an invite because it has already been used, but you want to force a new invite anyway, read the following article on how to do this: How do I force a new student invite if the previous one is used?

You can also add multiple students by uploading a CSV file.

1. In the teacher dashboard for a new course, click on 'Add Students by CSV'.

2. Upload a CSV (comma separated values) file, that has the full name, email address, (student-id) and (optionally) the group of the students you want to give access.

NOTE: The student-id only needs to be given if your organisation allows for processing student-ids within Grasple. Reach out to us for questions about this.

Below you see an example CSV file structure for an organisation without student-id and with groups. Also you can see the interface for uploading the CSV which indicates which columns should be included.

Secondly, you see an example CSV file structure for an organisation with student-id and with groups. Also you can see the interface for uploading the CSV which indicates which columns should be included.

You can see student ids are required in the instructions when uploading.

3. After uploading the file you can check whether everything is parsed correctly before adding the students to the course.

You can also check whether all the imported information has been split into columns correctly. After you've checked that all the columns are correct you can upload the students. If you get errors*, correct the file, refresh and try again.

*If you get an error message saying: 'there are rows with too few columns (less than 2)', check for every row if name and email are filled in correctly and no field is left blank. Sometimes there's an unnoticed white space at the end of the file that causes the error.

4. Check whether adding the students to the course has been successful by checking the summary info and errors.

You can see the following information:

5. Send the students an email immediately or wait and send the email later when your course starts.

They will receive the following email:

6. When you want to send the email later, from your monitor dashboard, click "send invitations" and then "to all uninvited students"

That's it!

Grasple is supported by many LMS integrations (Blackboard/Canvas/Brightspace/etc.). This allows your students to directly access the materials in the LMS course. You can find more info on how this works for each LMS right here.

It is also possible to invite students to your course without sending an email invitation. You can do so by using an organisation identifier. This is especially useful in an exam setting. Want to know how this can be done? This article gives you a step-by-step explanation.

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