Schools
Roster & Profile Management
Create, archive, and unarchive student profiles. How seat limits work in a school account.
Non-Alpha school student profiles are created and managed in the web dashboard. The iPad app is for students; staff don't add or edit students from iPad.
Creating a student profile
- Sign into the dashboard as an
owneroradmin. - Open Students → Add student.
- Enter the student's first name, last name, and the email address they will use to sign in on iPad.
- Save. The profile is ready to use immediately.
Each student needs a unique email
The student's email is how they receive their one-time sign-in codes. Schools often issue students a school-managed email (e.g. firstname.lastname@school.org). If a student doesn't have one, ask your IT team to create one before adding them to Scribble.
How seats work
Each non-archived student profile uses one seat. Staff accounts do not use seats.
- Adding a student fails if you've hit your seat limit. Contact us to expand the limit.
- Archiving a student frees their seat. You can add another student to take their place.
- Unarchiving an archived student consumes a seat again (and fails if you're at the limit).
Archiving a student
When a student leaves the program — moves to a new school, graduates, or stops practicing — archive their profile.
Archiving:
- Ends the student's iPad access immediately.
- Keeps their full learning history, in case they come back.
- Frees their seat so another student can use it.
Find the student under Students, open their profile, and tap Archive.
Unarchiving a student
To bring back an archived student, open Students → Archived, find them, and tap Unarchive. Their progress picks up where it left off.
Deleting a student
Deleting is permanent and removes the student's learning history. Use archive unless you really need to delete. Deletes happen from the same student page.
Bulk imports
Need to add a whole class at once? Contact support@usescribble.com — we can run a bulk import from a CSV.
Last reviewed May 11, 2026