Enroll Your Students

Before your class can do anything in your Sleedu course, your students need a way in. This guide shows elementary teachers how to set a class enrollment key — a simple password students type once to join your course — and how to help students find your course and enroll themselves. The whole setup takes about five minutes, and you only do it once per course.

The example below uses a 3rd Grade course, but the steps are the same for any elementary grade level.

Step 1 — Open your course and go to Participants

From My courses, open your grade-level course. Across the top you will see tabs: Course, Settings, Participants, Grades, Activities. Click Participants. This is where everything about who is in your course lives.

Step 2 — Open the Groups page

On the Participants page, click the dropdown menu at the top left that says Enrolled users. In the list that opens, choose Groups.

Step 3 — Select the Students group

Your course comes with three groups already made for you:

Students — your whole class joins through this group.
Support — for students who need extra time or extra attempts. They go here in addition to the Students group.
Teacher Assistant — for a classroom aide or helper.

Click Students in the left box so it is highlighted, then click Edit group settings at the bottom.

💡 Keep the groups as they are. Do not rename these groups or create new groups based on ability level or program status. Only you can see who is in the Support group — never discuss group membership with students.

Step 4 — Set your enrollment key

On the group settings page, find the Enrolment key box. Click the eye icon to see what you are typing, then enter your own key and press Enter to save. This key is the password your students will type to join your course.

💡 Make the key easy for young typists. Use short, lowercase words with no tricky spelling — something like room12-stars. Avoid capital letters, and avoid characters that look alike, such as the letter l and the number 1, or the letter O and the number 0. A key a 3rd grader can type on the first try saves you a whole class period.

Step 5 — Tell students how to find your course

Now your students need to find the course and type the key. Give them your course short name — this is your course ID. You can see it under Settings → Edit course settings. In this example the course ID is 3rd-grade. Students go to Home, search for the course ID, open the course, and type the enrollment key you gave them.

💡 Even easier: share the course link. Copy the web address of your course page and post it where your students already look — Google Classroom, a class website, or a QR code on the board. Clicking the link takes students straight to your course, so all they have to type is the key.

Step 6 — If a student gets stuck

With young students, a few will mistype the key or search for the wrong course name. That is normal, and you have two easy fixes:

Help them at their screen. Walk them through Home → search the course ID → type the key. Watching them type usually reveals the problem in seconds.
Enroll them yourself. Go to Participants → Enrol users, search the student’s name, and add them directly. No key needed — you have placed them in the course by hand.

You can always return to Participants later to check who has joined, add a student who was absent, or fix an enrollment that did not work.

✅ You are done when: your Students group has your own enrollment key, your students know the course ID (or have the link), and every name appears under Participants. Next up in the Start Here path: setting up your gradebook for your first month.

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