Setting up your system will take about 1-2 hours, before you get started make sure you have these files on-hand and fully completed:

- Your School Logo (in GIF or PNG format, no more than 200 pixels wide)

- Your Front Page Image (in JPG or PNG format, sized by 493 (W) x 290 (H) pixels)

- Classes.CSV Click to download.

- Users.CSV Click to download.
Watch the Setup Video here:
Quick Setup:

1) Login to your school admin section at http://yourschool.eduvo.com/admin (Note: “yourschool” is the sub-domain that you chose on signup, refer to the signup confirmation email if you forgot your sub-domain).

2) On the General tab, you will be able to enter and review your school contact details. Scroll to the bottom to enter your school’s existing webmail URL address, which will give students one-click access to their webmail.

3) Select the Design tab and upload your school insignia (in either GIF or PNG format) and a front page image (in either JPG or PNG format). For the front page image, please note that the dimensions must be exactly 493 (W) x 290 (H) pixels.

4) Select the Users tab, download the “UserTemplate.CSV” file and enter the users (Students, Teachers, Administrators, Alumnus, or Parents) that you want to register with Microsoft Excel. When you’re complete make sure to save the file in CSV (Comma Separated Values) format, and then select the file from your computer using “Browse”, and click “Upload Users”. This will send a welcome email to all users with an auto-generated password. (Note: if you require migration, we can handle this step for you)

5) Select the Courses tab and click “Add semester” to get started. (Note: it’s ok if you are on a quarter, trimester, or annual system, you can adjust the name and timeframe of the period to suit your school’s schedule). - Enter your period name (e.g. Fall 2007, Quarter One 2007)

- Select the start and end dates

6) Select “Bulk Upload Courses”, download the “CoursesTemplate.CSV” file and enter the courses offered for that period in Microsoft Excel. When you’re complete make sure to save the file in CSV (Comma Separated Values) format, and then select the file from your computer using “Browse”, and click “Upload Courses”. (Note: if you require migration, we can handle this step for you)

7) Now that you’ve added courses, you can either register all the classes for a particular student, or allow teachers to add students to their respective classes. If you want to do it student-by-student, select the Users tab and click a student’s name to begin. Or you can instruct teachers to access the Members page of their courses and manually add all of their students using the “Add Students” feature.

8) You’re all done with the school setup! Now you should login to the School 2.0 system at http://yourschool.eduvo.com/ to setup your personal profile. Click here to view that tutorial.

You can enter captions for your photos two ways: 1) If you want to enter many captions at once, go the photo album page and select edit photos, where you can enter captions one-by-one for each photo.

2) If you want to enter a single caption, simply click the photo and click edit caption, enter your text, and save.

On the right navigation menu of your group or class overview page, you can click “Message All”, which will allow you to quickly communicate with all of your members or students.

After logging in to the Admin section, go to the Courses tab, and select Generate Report Cards. You can then track grade submission by class and teacher. Once all grades have been submitted, you can press Generate Report Card, which will update the system and allow students and parents to view the report card after logging in.

On your Gradebook page, click the “Weights” page. You will be able to add weights for a particular assignment, so that you don’t need to re-enter weights each time you grade an assignment.

On your Gradebook page, click the “Submit Grades” button, this will automatically calculate the cumulative average for each student in your class. If you need to predict mock� exam grades (e.g. for IB Mocks or A-Levels), you can enter them here along with comments for each student. Once you click “Submit Grades”, your data will be archived and sent to your School Administrator for a final review before being released.

Only school administrators are able to configure event types. This can be done under the Groups tab of the Admin section, under Group types, where the event categories can be edited.

You can post a message from three places: 1) On your group overview page, directly below the title, you will see the “Post message” button. 2) On your group message page, you will see the same “Post message” button. 3) On an event or assignment page, you will also see “Post a related message” button. In this case, your message will be associated with that particular assignment or event.

On your group or class overview page, directly below the title, you will see the “Add Event” button. If you click that you will be able to add a group or class event, such as a football match or a piano rehearsal.

On your class overview page, directly below the title, you will see the “New Assignment” button. If you click that you will be able to create a new assignment for your class, attach relevant files to that assignment, and notify your students automatically once it has been created.

On the Members page of your group or class, under each user’s contact info you will see the “Remove from group”� button. Clicking that will automatically remove that user from your group or course.

On your Dashboard page, above the Next 2 Weeks table, you will see the “Add Event” button. If you click that you will be able to add a personal event, such as a doctor’s appointment or meeting.

On the Members page of your group, you will see a link to Permissions, once you click that you will see a list of all group members, if you tick the checkbox by a user, they will have admin authority. (Note: they must be an existing member of the group to be given admin authority).

On the Members page of your group, you will see a link to invite new members, once you click that you will be able to search for members at your school and throughout the Eduvo network by name. You can then select “Invite to group”�, which will send them an invitation.

Once you’ve found a group you want to join, simply click “Join Group”, if it is an open group, you will automatically be added to the member roster; however, if it is a private group, your request to join will be sent to the administrator for approval.