Once you have purchased Goodnotes Classroom, you will need to activate your school's license. If you are the Owner of your school's License, follow this easy guide to activate and share codes with your Teachers and Students.
Owners and Admins
Before you get started, it is important to understand the difference between Owners and Admins.
Owners
The Owner will the the person responsible for completing the initial set-up. They will likely be the person who had direct contact with our Sales Team or your Reseller and would have received the Referral Code or Activation Link directly from them after purchase. There is usually only one Owner connected to a License.
Admins
An Admin is a Role. Any Goodnotes Account on your server can be converted to an Admin Role which will give them access to the Goodnotes Admin Console and allow them certain permissions to make changes to your Classroom setup.
Activating Classroom
Activating Classroom is simple! Just follow the steps below to get up and running:
- Head to the Goodnotes Admin Console from the link provided by your sales rep
- Sign in using your school's SSO (Microsoft, Google or Apple)
- If not automatically activated, then you may have received a Referral Code to input from your sales rep
- Read and Agree to the Terms and Conditions
You are now logged into the Admin Console and can start setting up your Institution! Learn more about this here: Using the Goodnotes Admin Console.
My school uses the same domain as other schools in the area!
If your school uses the same domain as other schools in your district or region, you and your Teachers can still sign up with your SSO login, you will simply be asked to also input an org join code.
This code will be given to your school by the sales rep who helped you get onboarded. If this code is not working, please contact Support and let us know, we may need to unblock your school as another school in your district may have signed up first so we simply need to manually clear things up on our end!
Adding Admins
These will be your IT Admin Staff or other higher-ranking Teachers who may need to access User Management or Identity Provisioning Tools.
You can do this in the Goodnotes Admin Console, if your desired Admin already has a Goodnotes Account set up with your School domain, please go straight to Step 2:
For Owners (or whoever is in charge of the initial set-up)
- Ask the user to download Goodnotes Classroom and create a Goodnotes Account using their school domain. You can send them this article if they are having problems: Easy to follow activation guide for Teachers OR send them the instructions below.
- Find the newly created Account and choose the down arrow next to their Role (this should currently be set to Student)
- Change this to Admin
For the new Admin
- Open the Goodnotes Classroom app
- Create a Goodnotes Account by signing in with any of the SSO methods
- Read and Agree to the Terms and Conditions
- Let your existing Admin or Owner know you have completed the steps and they are ready to convert you to an Admin account!
Learn more about User Management here: Convert an Account's Role