DreamBox Learning Training Guide

Table of Contents
1. Logging In to Your DreamBox Account 2. Creating a Classroom 3. Adding New Students 4. Adding Teachers 5. Copying or Moving Students 6. Student Access to DreamBox 7. Accessing Parent Invitations 8. Deactivating Classrooms 9. Hiding Expired or Deactivated Classrooms 10. Unused Seats and Licenses Review 11. Changing Student Passwords Picture or Text

* This document is intended for both administrators and teachers. The images displayed throughout the document read Administrator Dashboard; however, those using the Teacher Dashboard can follow the same instructions. The only difference between the Teacher Dashboard and the Administrator Dashboard is that the Administrator Dashboard has an extra tab for school reports (where administrators can view all of the classrooms within their school at the same time). All other features are the same.

1. Logging In to Your DreamBox Account

To log in to your DreamBox account and access your Dashboard, navigate to http://www.dreambox.com/ login, enter your email address and your password, and click the Login button. If you forget your password, click the Forgot your password? link to receive an email from DreamBox containing instructions on resetting your password.

Enter your email address and password, then click Login.

Click the Login link to access the login page.

You can also access the login page from the DreamBox Learning home page. Navigate to www.dreambox.com and look for the Login link in the upper right corner of the page.

2. Creating a Classroom
To create a classroom, click the My Account tab in your Dashboard in the upper right corner of the page to view your account options.
Click the My Account tab in the Dashboard to view your account options.

Click Create a Classroom to display the Create a new classroom page.

Click the Create a Classroom link in the menu on the left side of the page to display the Create a new classroom page. On the Create a new classroom page, enter the required information: city, zip/postal code, grade, classroom name, and activation code. Once you have read the Terms of Use, select the checkbox and click Submit to display the Manage Students page, where you can begin creating your classroom.

Enter the classroom information and click Submit to display the Manage Students page.

3. Adding New Students

Click the Manage Students tab in the Dashboard to go to your classroom list.

Each DreamBox classroom will hold up to 35 students in a single class. To add a student to your classroom, enter the students information on the Manage Students page accessed by clicking the Manage Students tab in your Dashboard: first name, last name, username, password, student ID, gender, grade, and whether or not the student is an Intervention student. When you are done, click the green Save changes button.

Click Add student to create an additional new student line.

Enter student information on the blank line, and then click Save changes.

You can add students up to a maximum of 35. To add another student, click the Add student link, enter the students information on the blank line that appears below the other students information, and then click the green Save changes button.

4. Adding Teachers
To add a teacher to an existing classroom, click the My Account tab in your Dashboard in the upper right corner of the page. Using the blue View drop-down menu, select the classroom to which you want to add a teacher. Click the Add/Remove Teachers link in the menu on the left side of the page. Enter the teachers information, and then click the green Add teacher button.

Click the My Account tab in the Dashboard to view account options. Click Add/Remove Teachers to view the Add a teacher form.

Select the class to which you want to add a teacher.

Enter the new teachers information and click the Add teacher button.

If the teacher you added does not have a DreamBox Learning account, the system automatically creates one for him or her, and he or she receives an email with instructions on accessing the account. You can add more than one teacher to a classroom. For example, a classroom may have the following all listed as teachers: a teacher, a math consultant or math coach, an assistant teacher, and/or a coteacher. All teachers in a classroom have the same privileges and can add and manage students within the classroom, view student progress, and access the student play Internet address.

5. Copying or Moving Students

To copy or move a student, click the Manage Students tab in your Dashboard in the upper right corner of the page. Click the Move/Copy Students link in the menu on the left side of the page, enter any of the students information (such as first name), and click the Find button to locate the student. For best results, use only one of the search criteria available. Once you have found the student, select the checkbox to the left of the students name, and choose the destination classroom from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the list. Finally, click either Move selected students or Copy selected students.
Click the Manage Students tab in the Dashboard. Then click Move/Copy Students to access the form to copy or move a student.

If the student you wish to copy or move is not in one of your classrooms, or you are not assigned as a teacher to the destination classroom, then you need to ask the destination classrooms teacher to grant you access to that classroom. To grant you access, the teacher must click the My Account tab in the Dashboard and then click Add/Remove Teachers on the left side of the page. (Refer to 4. Adding Teachers for further instruction.)

Select the students you want to move or copy. Then select the destination classroom and click Move selected students or Copy selected students.

6. Student Access to DreamBox

Every school has a unique DreamBox Internet address that allows teachers and students to have 24/7 access to DreamBox. To display your DreamBox Internet address, click either the Manage Students tab or the Student Reports tab in your Dashboard.

Click the Manage Students tab in the Dashboard to display your DreamBox Internet address near the middle of the page.

Click the Student Reports tab in the Dashboard to display your DreamBox Internet address near the middle of the page.

Clicking the Internet address displays a login page where a teacher, parent, or student can log in. We recommend saving this Internet address to your students desktop for easy access.

7. Parent Invitations

Click the Manage Students tab in the Dashboard to display the Print Parent Invitations button near the middle of the page.

Parents can use Parent Invitations to set up home access to view their childrens lessons and progress reports. The invitation provides the schools Internet address, which allows parents to access DreamBox. To access Parent Invitations, click the Manage Students tab in your Dashboard. Click the green Print Parent Invitations button to open a PDF file containing a parent invitation letter for each student in your classroom to take home.

8. Deactivating Classrooms
To deactivate a classroom, click the My Account tab in your Dashboard to view your classroom subscription information. Then select the classroom you wish to deactivate by using the blue drop-down menu.

Click the My Account tab in the Dashboard to view subscriptions. Select the classroom to deactivate, and click the Deactivate license button.

Click the green Deactivate license button to deactivate the classroom. Those student seats that were a part of that classroom will now be available to apply towards other classrooms in your school. Deactivation also removes the classroom from the school Internet address.

9. Hiding Expired or Deactivated Classrooms

To hide an expired or deactivated classroom, click the My Account tab in your Dashboard. (For information on deactivating classrooms, refer to 8. Deactivating Classrooms.) Click the Manage Class List link on the left side of the page to display a list of your classrooms.

Click the My Account tab in the Dashboard. Then click Manage Class List to view a list of your classrooms.

All expired and deactivated classrooms should appear in the Expired Classrooms list. Click the Hide link for the classroom that you wish to hide.

Click the Hide link for the classroom you wish to hide.

Hidden classrooms can be viewed by pressing the Show hidden classrooms button at the bottom of your classroom list.

10. Unused Seats and License Review

To find out how many student spaces you have remaining in a classroom, click the Manage Students tab in your Dashboard. View the classroom list, just below the Print Parent Invitations button in the middle of the page. In the classroom list, you can see how many students are registered, how many seats remain, and how many deactivated students you have (if any). The number of seats remaining indicates how many more students you can add to an individual classroom.

Click the Manage Students tab in the Dashboard and select a class from the blue dropdown menu. The classroom list tells you how many seats remain.

To review your school licenses, click the My Account tab on your Dashboard. Click the Review license allocation link on the left side of the page to view all active and inactive licenses and to see how your activation codes are being used.

Click the My Account tab in the Dashboard.

Click Review license allocation to view your activation codes. Each activation code shows the amount of unused seats.

11. Student Passwords Picture or Text

Student passwords for Kindergarten and first grade default to picture passwords whereas second and above default to text passwords. To change from one password type to the other click the Manage Students tab on your Dashboard. A drop down box just above the Print Parent Invitations button in the middle of the page will allow you to change passwords between picture and text.

Click the Manage Students tab in the Dashboard and select Picture or Text Password from the white dropdown menu.

Once text password is selected the password column will change to allow manual input of passwords for each student. Click the green Save changes button to save and apply the password changes.

Enter in the text password for each student and click the Save changes button.

A list of all students, user names, and passwords is available under the Student Reports tab in the Dashboard. Click the Classroom Roster Report to view a printable list.