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国产精品 Substitute Access: Secure learning continues even when teachers are out
April 14, 2025
Quinn Fusting
Digital learning gives teachers and students many exciting ways to engage and learn. But what happens when a teacher is absent and a substitute is in charge? Without reliable school accounts or application licenses, there isn鈥檛 a secure way for substitutes to access key curriculum. When substitutes can鈥檛 continue lessons because they don鈥檛 have access, student learning suffers. That’s why we built Substitute Access – one additional way we’ve secured all identities, access, and data via 国产精品.
Lost instructional time and security concerns
From daily classroom interruptions to growing teacher absenteeism 鈥 student instructional time is at risk. With the majority of K-12 classrooms relying on digital learning, schools face a new challenge with how to grant substitute teachers access to curriculum while a teacher is out. Even though substitutes are often technically district employees, many schools accept that substitutes can鈥檛 use their learning applications, diverting students from their structured lesson plan. But what if schools didn’t have to accept this compromise of learning loss to stronger cybersecurity protocols?
A new, secure pathway for substitute teachers
With 国产精品 Substitute Access, teachers can securely grant substitutes access to important learning applications and keep learning on track while they鈥檙e out. Using tools they use everyday on 国产精品鈥-Teacher Pages and Badges鈥攖hey can quickly and easily share access to just the resources substitutes will need in class, without the security concerns (like usernames and passwords on stickies or in emails). Once the teacher grants access, substitutes can access applications as the primary teacher 鈥 ensuring that learning continues. 国产精品 who may have devoted application licenses to substitutes in the past won鈥檛 have to consider that in budgeting anymore. Watch a demo below.
Availability and enhancements
Substitute Access is free to districts and available now. To get started, 国产精品 Admins should turn it on in their dashboard. Key product enhancements give 国产精品 Admins and teachers more customization options and exciting features on the way will give 国产精品 Admins even more control.
Features available today:
- 国产精品 Admins can turn on Substitute Access for specific schools in the district.
- Teachers can provide short-term substitutes with access to the applications on their Teacher Pages using a Substitute Badge. Learn more here.
- Teachers can customize Substitute Badge expiration dates up to 14 days.
Enhancements ready by Back to School 2025:
- 国产精品 Admins can track Substitute Badge login information in 国产精品鈥檚 updated Access Logs
- 国产精品 Admins can select specific applications to block from Substitute Access
Manage Substitute Access for your schools
As the identity platform for education, we鈥檙e thrilled to release this feature that will secure more digital identities in school communities and power digital learning, even when the teacher is out.
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