Add a student

Usually your server administrator is able to pre-load your Manhattan classroom with the students who are registered for your course. Even then, there will be occasions when you will want to add additional students to your classroom. Although your server administrator can set up things differently, typically teachers are only allowed to add people to their classrooms if they already have a Manhattan account. When you click on the Add a student hyperlink, you'll see this form:

The form allows you to search for the user to add as a student by their ID number, their real name, or their username. As shown in the above screenshot, you must enter at least two characters in your search criteria - that's to limit the results to a reasonable number on servers that have thousands of users. In the above example, the letters "jj" were entered. After clicking the Search button, the results of your search will be shown at the bottom of the same page as the search form.

Here's the results of our search for "jj" which, again, is shown at the bottom of the same page:

Three people matched our search, one of whom is already in this particular class. To add a person from the list, simply check the box next to their name and click the Add new student(s) button. You'll get a page that verifies they have been added to your classroom as students:

In this example, we searched for "jj", knowing that the person we wanted to add had those characters as part of their username. More often, you will simply type in the person's first or last name when adding a student. Also note again that the most typical server configuration prevents teachers from adding completely new Manhattan accounts to the server. Generally, as a teacher, you can only select from a list of people who already have Manhattan accounts because they are, or were once, members of another classroom. Your server administrator can easily add completely new students to your classroom.