• School Administration (For schools with multiple classrooms)
• How to add and remove school admins
• How to enroll students and add teachers (Membership Groups)
• How to create a classroom
• How do delete a classroom
• Classroom Management
• How to add and remove teachers to a classroom
• How to add and remove students to a classroom
• How to rename classrooms
• How to view classroom stats
• How to share formatting and outlining templates with a classroom
• Assignments
• The two ways to create assignments
• Approach 1: Creating assignments via a script template
• How to find the assignments you have created
• How to re-send an assignment (or add a new student)
• Approach 2: Creating an assignment that students will submit their own scripts to
• Students can submit scripts to the assignment
• Assignments with production components
• How to give feedback on a script

School Administration (For schools with multiple classrooms)

If you have been granted school-wide admin privileges, you can access the school management portal by:

1. Navigating to the desk and clicking on your username in the top left
2. Clicking on [school name] management

On the school management portal you will see the (1) school name, (2) membership groups, and (3) current classrooms for that school listed on the left.

(NOTE: If you are an admin for multiple schools, you will see multiple schools listed on the left. Select the school that you wish to manage.)

How to add and remove school admins

If you have school admin privileges, you can add and remove other school admins. These admins will in turn be able:

• Add and remove other school admins
• Create, rename, and add students and teachers to membership groups
• Create, rename, and add students and teachers to classrooms
• View classroom stats
• Manage templates for the classrooms

To add a school admin, enter their email address under School Admins and click Add admins

You can list multiple email addresses separated by commas, or drop a .csv/.txt file onto that area.

To remove a school admin:

1. Click on the … menu next to their name.
2. Select Remove

3. Click Ok to confirm.

How to enroll students and add teachers (Membership Groups)

To enroll students and add teachers, first create a membership group for them. You can then add your students and teachers to the group.

1. Enter the name of the membership group under Create Membership Group
2. Click Create Group

You will see the group added in the left sidebar underneath the name of the school.

To add students and teachers to the membership group, click on the Membership group name.

This will take you to a screen where you can add your teachers and students.

• Add the teachers in the top field and then click Add teachers
• Add the students in the bottom field and then click Add students

You can enter multiple email addresses in either field or drag and drop a .csv or .txt file onto the appropriate field.

If the Arc Studio account did not exist prior to this, then the school will own the account. It will be noted with the School owned tag. If there was already an Arc Studio account associated with that email address, it will remain a personal account owned by the student or teacher. This will be noted with a Personal account tag.

How to create a classroom

Once you have added your students and teachers in their enrollment group, you can create classrooms and add the students and teachers to them.

To create a new classroom, enter the classroom name and select Create Classroom

The new classroom will be added to the list on the left.

How do delete a classroom

To delete a classroom:

1. Select the classroom from the list on the left
2. Click on the Info tab
3. You will see the DANGER AREA at the bottom.
4. Click Unlock and re-enter your password

After you re-authenticate by entering your password, the Delete Team button will be unlocked. Click on it to delete the classroom.

You will then be asked what to do with the accounts that are owned by the classroom. You can:

• Release owned accounts (The individual students will have control of their accounts moving forward.)
• Delete owned accounts (The individual accounts and all of the scripts owned by those accounts will be deleted.)
• Cancel

Classroom Management

School admins and teachers can add and remove students and teachers from classrooms.

To access the classroom management portal:

1. Navigating to the desk and clicking on your username in the top left
2. Then clicking on:
1. [school name] management (if you’re a school admin)
2. [classroom name] management (if you’re assigned as a teacher for just one classroom)
3. Classroom management (if you’re assigned as a teacher for more than one classroom)

This will take you to the Classroom Management Portal. All the classes for which you are assigned as a teacher will be listed on the left. Click on the classroom you want to manage.

This will take you to the Members page for the classroom. You will see a field to Add teachers and a field to Add students

How to add and remove teachers to a classroom

To add teachers to a classroom, enter their email addresses in the top field and click Add teachers.

You can enter multiple email address or drag and drop a .csv or .txt file containing the email addresses into the field.

To remove a teacher, select the … menu next to their name and choose either Make student or Remove from this classroom

How to add and remove students to a classroom

To add students to a classroom, enter their email addresses in the second field and click Add students.

You can enter multiple email address or drag and drop a .csv or .txt file containing the email addresses into the field.

To remove a student, select the … menu next to their name and choose Remove from this classroom

How to rename classrooms

To rename a Classroom:

1. Select the classroom on the left
2. Click Info
3. Enter the new name
4. Click Rename

How to view classroom stats

You can view stats on a classroom including:

• The number of teachers
• The number of students
• How many students and teachers have been onboarded
• How many students and teachers have been recently active

To view the stats:

1. Select the classroom on the left
2. Click Info

How to share formatting and outlining templates with a classroom

You can select formatting and templates that you have created or imported and make them available to all the students and teachers assigned to the classroom.

To make templates available for everyone in the classroom:

1. Select the classroom on the left
2. Select Templates
3. Toggle on the templates you want to share with all classroom members

Please also see our help center articles on how to create templates:

Assignments

Arc Studio lets you create and organize all the student assignments for your classroom. To see the assignments for a class:

1. Click on Classrooms in the left sidebar on the desk
2. Then choose the classroom (every classroom in which you have been added as a teacher will be listed).

The two ways to create assignments

There are two ways to create an assignment for your students:

• You can create an assignment via a script template that you as the teacher create. A copy of the script template will be created for each student, and the teacher is automatically included as a collaborator to monitor the student work and give feedback. (Note: In this approach the students need to do their work in the copy the teacher creates for them. They should not create new scripts or import scripts.)
• You can create an assignment where students can submit scripts they have imported into Arc Studio or created themselves in Arc Studio.

Approach 1: Creating assignments via a script template

To start, create a new script and fill it out with whatever information you wish to share with your students.

Students will receive an email invitation to accept the assignment, as well as an in-app notification, as shown below. They will need to accept the invitation to work on the assignment.

How to find the assignments you have created

Teachers can find the assignments they’ve created by clicking Classrooms and then choosing the classroom.

How to re-send an assignment (or add a new student)

To re-send an assignment, or add someone new, just click on the student management icon for the assignment in the top right.

This will launch the pop-up window where you can choose students to send the assignment to via the checkboxes or adding their email addresses in the field at the bottom. Once you’re done, just click Add students.

Approach 2: Creating an assignment that students will submit their own scripts to

If students will be creating the scripts themselves in Arc Studio or importing the script file into Arc Studio, you can create an assignment and invite your students. They will be able to submit to that assignment.

Students can submit scripts to the assignment

Via the dashboard:

Via their classroom:

Finally, students can also submit a script to an assignment by clicking the … menu for a script in their main script list and selecting “Submit to assignment”

Assignments with production components

If the assignment is going to have a production component in Arc Studio (breakdown, schedule, shot list/storyboards) then the students need to submit their assignment as a project, not a script. If they submit it as a script only, you as the teacher will not have access to the production component.

• If the student only has a script (they haven’t done their breakdown or created a schedule) they need to create a project and add their script to the project. Then they can submit that project as an assignment.
• If the student has already started their breakdown, the project will have already been created. They can submit that project as an assignment and the teacher will have access to both the script and production portions of the project.

How to give feedback on a script

To leave a comment on a student’s script, simply highlight the section of the script and click the comment bubble on the palette bar. (The palette bar will either be at the bottom of your screen or appear when you highlight the work.)

You can use @ to notify the student of the comment by selecting their name. (The student’s name will only appear if they are a collaborator on the script.)

You can also create custom tags for the comments, which make it easier to filter through comments later.

For more on comments check out our guide!