Share with Parents

As the end of the school year approaches, many parents want to see their student's work and progress. Showbie is a great way to document this growth over time. A simple way to share with parents the information, assignments, and projects that have been submitted on Showbie, is by sharing the login information with them.

Since Showbie is accessible on a computer, as well as an iPad, it is very easy for parents to find their student's work. As a teacher, our job would be to provide the parents with their student's username and password. Personally, I have a ton of usernames, passwords, numbers, addresses, and email addresses stored in my brain so there is no way I am going to remember all 20-something of my students. Luckily, Showbie has a solution to his problem.

As a teacher, if you login to Showbie on the computer, a list of your classes will appear. As an example, I will shown my Showbie. Since I am not yet a teacher, I only have fake students, so you'll have to use your imagination a bit!

"Jenny test" is the name of my one and only class. Underneath the title, in gray, it tells you how many students and teachers are enrolled in the class. If you put your mouse over those words, a small icon will appear to the right of the word 'teacher'. Click this icon.

Once you click the icon, a white box will appear, as shown below. This will list all your students and their username. I only have one fake student, Johny Jones, and his username is rsjohny. 

When creating Showbie accounts for your students, I would highly recommend using the same password for all the students. This will reduce the amount of confusion and forgotten passwords. If for some reason your student changed or forgot their password, you can reset it. On the right side of each student's line, there is a drop down arrow. If Johny Jones forgot his password, I would click the drop down arrow and two options would appear, as shown below.

Once you select, 'reset password', a temporary password code will be given to you, the teacher. You will have to provide this code to your student and help them change it back to the desired password. This is why a common password is useful, to avoid this step :)

Once you have all your students login information, create a personal letter or email for each student to take home to their parents. They can login on showbie.com together to see the student's work. In the letter, I would include directions to download the work so the parents can save it, if they wish.

What a great and simple way to share information!