How to run your group, start to finish.
Plain documentation for every part of the instructor experience, what each control does, what each number counts, and what to do when something looks wrong.
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- Dashboard, grading, seats, reader
- Last updated
- September 24, 2026
Teacher access, the demo classroom, and turning a trial run into a real class.
How instructor approval works, and how to request it
Instructor approval is free for instructors and reviewed by a person, usually within one business day. Here is what you fill in, and what unlocks.
Read the guide6 minOverviewTry the demo group: a full class in about 90 seconds
Open a practice group with 18 synthetic students and weeks of realistic activity, so you can judge the Teacher Dashboard before you commit a real class to it.
Read the guide6 minHow-toTurn your demo group into a real class
Adopt turns the demo you have been exploring into a real group with its own group code, without touching the demo or its practice students.
Read the guide5 minCreating a class, inviting students, student accounts, and seats.
Create a class: every setting on the wizard, explained
Walk the Create group wizard screen by screen: practice or real, the name, the answer-release checkbox, and the account defaults every new class inherits.
Read the guide6 minHow-toInvite students: the group code, the link, and what students see
Three ways to get a class onto your roster (an emailed invitation, the group code, or a paste of your whole class list), and what the student experiences.
Read the guide6 minHow-toCreate accounts for students who cannot use email
Make accounts for students whose inbox never reaches them, and hand out a temporary password on paper. The passwords are shown once, so print or download them.
Read the guide6 minTroubleshootingMy students are not receiving their invitations
The usual cause is a teacher account still being verified, which holds invitations until approval. How to tell, and what to do in every other case.
Read the guide6 minOverviewSeats: what they are, how to give one, when they expire
A seat is one student's paid access to your class textbook for a year. Here is how students get one, how you hand them out, and what the expiry date means.
Read the guide6 minOverviewConnect your LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle)
What grade passback does today, how your LMS admin sets it up with Questiva, and what a student sees when they launch a graded activity from Canvas, Blackboard, or Moodle.
Read the guide5 minThe smart grader, holding and releasing scores, overrides, and written answers.
How the smart grader works, and what it does not do
The smart grader checks a student's real QuickBooks Online export against an answer key and shows you every check it made. Here is exactly how it scores.
Read the guide6 minHow-toAdjust a student's grade, or force a pass
Set any chapter exam grade yourself from the student page, including an exam nobody has sat, count it as a pass, note why if you want to, and undo it later.
Read the guide6 minOverviewHow chapter quizzes are graded, and how to reopen one
The four quiz modes, what a student sees in each, which attempt counts, and how to give one student another attempt.
Read the guide6 minHow-toHold grades for review, then release them to students
Turn smart grading off for a class and every QuickBooks submission waits for you. Here is what students see while you hold, and how releasing posts the grade.
Read the guide6 minHow-toReopen a chapter exam for another attempt
The chapter exam closes after its attempts are used, and only you can reopen it. Here is where the button is, what the student gets, how a class-wide reopen differs from a personal one, and how to read the paper before you decide.
Read the guide6 minTroubleshootingA student says their score is missing
Almost always the grade exists and is waiting for you to release it. Here is how to confirm that, release it, and rule out the other three causes.
Read the guide5 minHow-toOverride a rubric check and adjust a score
Flip a single rubric check from matched to not matched (or back), record why, and let the attempt's score recalculate, without re-marking the whole submission.
Read the guide5 minHow-toRead what your students actually wrote
Your class's written chapter-review answers collect in one queue. Read them, mark them, send one back, and leave a note, without touching anyone's score.
Read the guide6 minWhat every number on the dashboard counts, and where to look when one looks wrong.
Reading your Teacher Dashboard: what every number counts
A tile-by-tile guide to a class in your Teacher Dashboard: what each number counts, over what window, and exactly what a student has to do to move it.
Read the guide7 minTroubleshootingWhy does average completion show 0% when students are working?
Average completion counts chapters a student has finished: read through, hands-on steps ticked, checkpoint quiz passed. Here is what moves it, what does not, and what to check when it stays at zero.
Read the guide4 minOverviewThe student record, section by section
One student's standing in your class: their grade, their engagement, the four categories across the book, and their work chapter by chapter, one click at a time.
Read the guide6 minClass controls and shaping the book to your syllabus.
The group controls: grading, quizzes, answers, reader, progress
What each switch and dial in Class settings does, what a student sees in each position, and how it resolves when a student is in more than one of your classes.
Read the guide7 minHow-toChoose which chapters your class sees
Pick the book for your class, set how far into it your class goes, and order the chapters you keep, without changing what a student's plan lets them open.
Read the guide6 minOverviewWhat Lite and Standard open for your students
The two plans split on whose QuickBooks company the work is in. Here is which chapters each one opens, what disappears with a locked chapter, and how to run a class where students hold different plans.
Read the guide4 minModern and Classic reading modes, and the Instructor's Manual.
Modern and Classic reader: what your students get
Students read the textbook two ways: Modern, a structured e-learning version of each chapter, and Classic, the exact printed page. What each one gives them.
Read the guide6 minOverviewThe Instructor's Manual inside the reader
The reader's Manual button opens the guide for the chapter you are on: what students do, the smart graders, the exam, the files and the teaching notes, with the author's manual one click away at the same chapter. Teacher-only, per title.
Read the guide5 minAsk us directly.
A real person on our team reads every message and replies within one to two business days. If something in your classroom is not behaving the way this guide describes, tell us. That is a bug, and we want it.