Tutor User Guide
Everything a tutor can do, explained step by step with pictures of the real screens. Taking the register, setting and marking work, and seeing how your students are doing.
27 articlesLast updated 12 October 2026
Start readingGetting started
Sign in, find your way around, and set up your own account.
- Welcome — what a tutor account can doWhat you can do as a tutor, and what you will not be able to do.
- How to sign inOpen the system and sign in with your username and password.
- Understanding your dashboardThe first screen you see, and what each number means.
- Understanding the left-hand menuWhat each group in the menu contains, so you can find any screen.
- How to update your profile and passwordChange your picture, your details, your password and your timezone.
Your classes
Your courses and groups, the timetable, who is enrolled, and taking the register.
- How to see your coursesThe subjects you teach, and what the statuses mean.
- How to use your batch workspaceOpen a group to see its students, sessions, register and details in one place.
- How to use the timetableSee your classes in order, and join an online class.
- How to see who is on your classesEvery student enrolled on the groups you teach.
- How to take the registerMark who was present at a class. This is the task tutors do most often.
- How to mark class performanceRecord how each student took part in a class. These marks count towards their final result.
- How to share a class recording or videoPut a YouTube, Vimeo, Zoom or other video link on a class so your students can watch it.
Setting and marking work
Assignments, quizzes, examinations, the grade book, and how students are doing.
- How marking fits togetherRead this first: where marks come from and what happens to them.
- How to set and mark an assignmentCreate coursework for your class, publish it, and mark what comes in.
- How to build and run a quizCreate a quiz, add questions and answers, set how it runs, and see how students did.
- How to schedule an examination and record resultsSchedule an exam, publish the schedule, enter marks for the whole class, then publish results.
- How to use the grade bookEvery mark a student has earned on a batch, and how to add one.
- How to see how your students are doingEvery student in a batch with their current percentage and grade, and the working behind it.
- What transcripts and grading schemes are forTwo screens you can look at but not change, and what they are for.
Files, messages and reports
Share material, post notices, talk to your students, and see how your classes are doing.
- How to share files with your classUpload material and share it with a course, a batch, a class or a person.
- How to post an announcementPut a notice in front of your class, with a start and end date.
- How to start a discussionA conversation thread attached to one of your courses.
- How to send a messageWrite to your students and to administrators, without email addresses.
- How to manage notificationsSee what the system has told you, and choose what you keep receiving.
- How to use reportsSix ready-made reports covering the classes you teach.
- What Academic setup is forReference taxonomy that categorises courses, semesters, and departments.
Solving problems
The questions tutors ask most often.