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Note:

This article goes through the process of manually creating accounts for your students using the Managed Accounts feature. If you are using a Learning Management System (LMS), you can integrate Kialo Edu to allow your LMS to automatically manage accounts for you. See the Using Kialo and LTI article for instructions for your LMS.

If you do not want your students to sign up for Kialo Edu themselves, you can create managed accounts for them by using the Managed Accounts feature.

About Managed Student Accounts

• The Managed Accounts feature allows educators and institutions to create and manage Kialo Edu accounts for their students.
• At any time, you are able to:
  • edit the usernames and passwords of your managed accounts;
  • add or remove the accounts from teams you are an Owner or Admin in;
  • permanently delete them from Kialo Edu.
• Managed accounts are able to change their own passwords and avatars. They cannot change their usernames or add an email to their account.
• If creating many managed accounts, you can paste a list of desired usernames, using the syntax of one username per line if desired.
• You can download a list of the username and password combinations of your managed accounts during the setup process.

Tips:

All accounts you manage will be added to each others’ contact lists.

Creating New Managed Accounts

To create new managed accounts:

1. Navigate to the Managed Accounts section of My Kialo.
2. Click Create Accounts.
3. Enter the usernames and passwords for the accounts to create:
   1. If you have an existing list of desired usernames, select Paste multiple usernames. Paste your list into the box using one username per line.
      • For Password, select whether to Create a unique password for each user (you will be able to download a list of username and password combinations afterwards), or Enter one password for all users (you can request students change their passwords after they’ve signed in).
      • Then, click Add Users to import the usernames.
   2. Alternatively, to manually input each account, enter the intended username and password in each respective row. You can randomly generate a password for a user by clicking the dice icon.
4. If you wish to add all newly created accounts to a specific team, select the appropriate team underneath Invite users to team.
5. Double-check your settings are correct, then click Create Accounts.
6. Once the accounts are created, select whether to Download the login credentials of the created managed accounts or Copy to Clipboard. Once finished, click Close.

Editing or Deleting Managed Accounts

Warning:

Deleting managed user accounts is irreversible and will also delete all discussions the user is an Owner of. Take care when using this feature.

To edit an individual managed account’s settings, such as their password, or delete the account:

1. Navigate to the Managed Accounts section of My Kialo.
2. Find the desired username to edit, click the ⋮ Menu icon, then select Edit, Add to Team, or Delete as required.
3. Adjust the settings if appropriate, then click Save or Delete.

If you want to delete or add multiple managed accounts to teams, check the boxes to the left of the relevant managed accounts then select Delete or Add to Team as appropriate.