Once you've added a co-teacher, you may want to know what exactly a co-teacher can do. Co-Teachers are able to perform most of the same tasks as the main teacher of a class. See the tables below for more information.
💡 Tips:
Once a co-teacher is added to a class, we highly recommend that the co-teacher is made aware that they are now a co-teacher on that class, and that they will now see the class tile in their Classes module. This helps to avoid confusion and the accidental archiving or deleting of classes!
If you are the co-teacher of a class, the main teacher must login with Google SSO at least once in order to enable any Google features available for that class.
Classes
This section outlines the abilities of co-teachers in regards to classes.
Co-teachers can:
Change the class name.
Create, edit, or delete student groups.
Add or remove students from student groups.
Create, edit, or delete recognitions.
Assign recognitions to or remove recognitions from students.
The main teacher will receive a notification on their notification feed if the co-teacher gives a recognition.
Add notes to the student profile
Add information to the Family Communication log.
*Archive and/or delete classes
❗ *If a co-teacher archives or deletes a class from within their account, it will also archive or delete that class from the main teacher as well. To avoid confusion and accidental deletion, we highly recommend reminding your co-teachers not to archive or delete classes unless they are specifically asked to do so.
Co-teachers can't:
Add additional co-teachers.
Remove themselves as a co-teacher.
Assessments
This section outlines the abilities of co-teachers in regards to assessments.
Co-teachers can:
Assign and/or unassign assessments (including those that were assigned by the main teacher).
Assign to student groups (including those that were created by the main teacher).
Grade assessments
Edit the content of assigned assessments that were drafted from within their own account.
Access Manage Assignees for assigned assessments.
Edit the assigned assessment settings, such as due dates and start dates.
Using Google Docs in Rubric Assessments:
Assign rubric assessments to make a copy of a Google Doc for each student.
❗ The main teacher must login with Google SSO at least once for the co-teacher to have this capability, and the co-teacher must be the owner of the document.
View the student's Google Docs that have been assigned in a rubric.
If the co-teacher has permissions to view and/or edit the folder in Google Drive, they will be able to access the documents.
Co-teacher will have the student's Google Docs in their Google Drive.
If the co-teacher has permissions to view and/or edit the folder in Google Drive, they will be able to access the documents.
Add grades to a rubric assessment that has a Google Doc attached.
Co-teachers can't:
Edit the content of assigned assessments that were drafted in the main teacher's account.
View/preview draft assessments created by the main teacher.
Draft lessons are unique to the account they were created in; only the creator of the lesson can view it. If you'd like to view the draft of a lesson made by another teacher, you can ask the teacher to share the lesson with you.
Lessons
This section outlines the abilities of co-teachers in regards to lessons.
Co-teachers can:
Assign and or unassign lessons (including those that were assigned by the main teacher).
Assign to student groups (including those that were created by the main teacher)
View student progress on assigned lessons.
Edit the content of assigned lessons that were drafted from within their own account.
Access Manage Assignees for assigned lessons.
Edit the assigned lesson settings such as due date and start dates.
Co-teachers can't:
Edit the content of assigned lessons that were drafted in the main teacher's account.
Draft lessons are unique to the account they were created in; only the creator of the lesson can view it. If you'd like to view the draft of a lesson made by another teacher, you can ask the teacher to share the lesson with you.
Gradebook
This section outlines the abilities of co-teachers in regards to the gradebook.
Co-teachers can (for all students in the class(es) they co-teacher):
View the gradebook, both whole-class and individual student.
Edit grades and statuses.
Add + (plus) assessments.
Edit + (plus) assessments.
Class Board
This section outlines the abilities of co-teachers in regards to the class board.
Co-teachers can:
Publish a post on the class board.
Student and family accounts will receive a notification if the co-teacher publishes a post.
Comment on a post on the class board.
As long as the post has commenting enabled.
Edit published posts on the class board.
Co-teachers can't:
Edit scheduled posts on the class board (that were created by the main teacher).
Mailbox
This section outlines the abilities of co-teachers in regards to the mailbox.
Co-teachers can:
Send a message to students or family members. The message will appear in the Family Communication Log
Receive replies to messages sent from the mailbox. Replies are only sent to the original sender of the message, not both the main teacher and co-teacher.
View sent messages. Co-teachers can view the sent section of the Mailbox; it will only show the messages sent from the co-teacher. Co-teachers will not have messages sent by the main teacher in their sent mailbox.
Co-teachers can't:
View messages that were sent by the main teacher
Be CC'd on a message sent by the main teacher (and vice versa).
Blog
This section outlines the abilities of co-teachers in regards to the blog.
Co-teachers can:
Publish a post on the class blog.
Comment on a post on the class blog.
Edit posts on the class board that they created.
Co-teachers can't:
Edit posts on the class board made by the main teacher (and vice versa).
Other
A few other co-teacher capabilities throughout Otus are listed here:
Co-teachers can:
Add notes that can be included on the student's report card.
Add grades for grade passback.
Co-teachers can't:
Be listed as a teacher on the report card.