How to bulk register and monitor multiple teams
If you are a teacher and want to bulk register multiple teams and/or monitor the teams at your school then we have systems to do that. You will first need to register as a teacher using the form on the left hand side of the login page. The link is in the menubar at the top right.
Follow along below to find out how to bulk register student accounts, to link additional ones and to monitor them.
The Student Teams tab allows you to manage all the teams linked to your account and view any that are registered at your school but not yet linked. They are there because: you registered them with the bulk registration tool (Invite Teams); or the team captain has entered your 6 character Monitoring PIN code in their account; or because you are registered at the same school.
To create a new team simply enter a team name and hit the Create Team. This will set it up as an inactive team in our system, listing it in the box below with a Team Registration PIN and a Team setup password that you can give to the team captain for when they register their personal account. They need to sign up as a user on the site and choose the option to “Join an Existing team” when asked, entering the password and PIN provided by you. Once they have done that the team will show as active and they will be able to submit their entries.
This list shows all the teams linked to your account and whether or not they are active. Here we have set up a new team, Harry’s Best and Brightest, which is still waiting for someone to join it, while The Big Cats has a team captain and is ready to go!
At the top of the page you can check which team you are monitoring and switch back to your own account.
If a pupil has already set up a team without your help and you would like to monitor it anyway, then provide them with the monitoring PIN shown at the top of you list. Once the captain enters that on their team tab their team will also appear in this box.
Any teams registered at your school that are not listed in the monitoring box above will be listed here. Unfortunately we can’t give you any more info than the team name for GDPR reasons, but it might help you to track down other cipher challenge enthusiasts and maybe you can persuade them to add your monitoring PIN to their account so they will move up into the Monitoring box!
Clicking on an active team in the monitoring box will take you to a page where you can monitor and administer their account. You can switch back from that view to your own account using the big red button on that view.
While viewing the team you can change the team captain, view their submissions, print their certificates and read any messages Harry has sent the team. You can also delete the team, but this is irreversible and we do not recommend it!