Every school will have at least one nominated School Administrator who will manage and oversee the Discovery Education account for the site. The School Admin has access to different areas of the Discovery Education platform to the designated, through their Admin Dashboard.

The Admin Dashboard can be accessed through the main Discovery Education menu on the left-hand side of the screen.

This will open an area only accessible to School Admins where the school's Discovery Education account can be managed.

School Details

The first page visible on the Admin Dashboard provides an overview of the school.

By clicking on the numbers next to the account groups, the user will be given a list of the admins, teachers, students or classrooms respectively.

For each user, their name, Discovery Education username, email, user ID and role will be displayed.

By clicking on the ellipsis icon under Actions there are several options for editing and managing that account.

For Teachers, the School Admin has the option to:
Archive the user
Edit the Profile - e.g. updating name or email
Impersonate - log into their account as the user - this is useful if a teacher is sick and adjustments need to be made with assignments etc
Reset Password - this involves a manual reset where the password is then communicated directly to the teacher
Reset Password (email) - this involves a reset password link to be sent to the teacher's email address
Issue Sign In QR codes - creation of a QR code which can then be scanned by the teacher to access their account

For Students, the School Admin can manage the school accounts in the same way except because emails are optional for students, passwords can only be manually reset.

Licenses/Subscriptions

At the base of the School Details tab, product tiles show which current subscriptions the school holds.

By clicking on the tile, you will be able to view the license details for that subscription, including the start and end date.

Adding Users

Although most user accounts will be added through the Wonde integration or Bulk Import, it is also possible to create user accounts through the Admin Dashboard.


Click on the Manage School button and then select Add User.
Use the drop-down menu to select what type of account (role) that you would like to create.


Tap Add User and you will be shown confirmation that the account has been successfully created.


By clicking on View Profile, you will be shown a summary of the details related to that account.
Tapping the edit/ pencil icon will allow you to edit any details.

When creating a student account in this way, ensure that the required fields are all completed.  A student email is only required if your school will be using Google or Microsoft SSO to log into Discovery Education.

Managing Classrooms

It is also possible for the School Admin to add extra classes and to edit existing classes through the Admin Dashboard.  This is accessed through the Classrooms tab of the top menu.

After clicking on Search a list of all classes within the school will be shown.  Clicking on the class name will bring up the roster and other class details.
Within this area, a student can be unenrolled from the class, or extra students can be manually added to the class.

To edit the class name, teachers and description, the user should click on the pencil icon next to the Class Details header.

The School Admin can also manually add a new class through this page by clicking on Add Classroom after navigating to the Classrooms tab.

More information on how to create a class can be found here.