Type the school’s admin password. It is the same one that opens any teacher's class from the teacher dashboard — not the tablet password the children know. If nobody has changed it, it is on the setup sheet that came with the machine.
Every child: checked or not, fitted or waiting, the watch list, and what the glasses box needs.
The eye test is run by each class teacher from Other → Vision & Hearing on their dashboard. A child who cannot see the board is measured with the adjustable glasses and given a ready-made pair from the box, from P4 up; younger children sit at the front and are checked again next year. A child a pair from the box cannot help goes on the watch list — recorded, seated at the front, and first in line if an eye clinic or outreach camp ever visits the district. Oldest classes first.
How many ready-made pairs of each strength are in the box. Count it and
type the numbers; every pair a teacher hands over is taken off. Strengths are in
dioptres as printed on the pair, e.g. -1.50.
Counts of what happened on this server — how many children, which tools, which languages. It never shows anything anybody typed, looked up or asked.
The password a child or a visitor types to use the tablet’s tools
without signing in — the translator, the games, the library, the videos.
A child who signs in as a student, and a teacher who signs in to their class, are
never asked for it.
This is the one that gets said out loud in a room of thirty children, so
expect them to learn it, and change it whenever you like — every tablet picks
the new one up straight away, with nothing to restart. Keep it short and easy to say
across a classroom. It is deliberately not your admin password and it opens no
teacher’s class; the app refuses to make it either of those.
Whether a child needs a password to sign in as themselves. Off
(the way every school starts): a child taps their class, then their name, and is in.
On: the first time each child signs in after you switch it on, they are asked
to choose a password and type it twice, and from then on their name alone is not
enough. It is one decision for the whole school, and each child has one password
for all of their classes — chosen once, and a teacher resetting it from any
class changes it everywhere.
Switch it on during a lesson, not between them. Until a child has chosen
theirs, anyone who taps that child’s name can choose it for them — so a
teacher should walk the class through it together. A child who forgets it goes to
their teacher, who resets it from Other → Students & Passwords. Turning it off keeps every
password stored, so turning it back on does not make the class choose again.
A box is set up for one place. That decides which languages the
tablets offer, which language they open on, and which voices the box loads when it
starts. Most boxes are fixed when they are set up and cannot be changed from
this page — a school in Uganda should never be switched to another country by
somebody clicking here. This page will tell you if yours is fixed.
On the demonstration box it can be changed, so that it can be made to behave
exactly like a school box before anything is sent to one. It also offers NLLB Base,
which is not a country: every language the general translation model handles well enough
to show (about 120). About 75 have a voice, which takes a few seconds the first time it
speaks; none has a microphone, and none has been checked by a speaker. Both boxes change when you press the
button. The second box — the one that does the translating and the listening
— swaps over straight away, without going down. This box then restarts itself to
finish, which takes everything off the air for about half a minute, so do it when
nobody is in a lesson. The page will tell you when it is back.
If the line below says anything other than a tick, do not show the tablets to anyone:
a half-switched pair does not break, it answers in the wrong language. That is also why
this box will refuse to restart if the other one did not switch — better to stay
as you were than to go half way.
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You get a spreadsheet with two sheets in it, already filled in with this term: Teachers (teacher, class, subject) and Students (class, student). Edit it in Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice — no internet needed. Type next term's teachers and children over this term's. You never create a class anywhere: a class exists because its name appears in the spreadsheet, so a new P5B is made simply by typing P5B.
⬇️ Download school_config.xlsxChoose the spreadsheet you edited. Nothing changes yet. You get a count of the classes, teachers and children it found, and a list of what would be added and what would go, so you can read it over before anything is done. If it looks wrong, fix the spreadsheet and choose it again.
Every term you finish is kept here, and so is the term you are in now — it is saved automatically the moment before you switch away from it. That is what makes looking around safe: whichever term you go to, the one you left is still in this list. Switch to this term brings back that term’s classes, class lists and the children’s progress exactly as they were. You can also keep a copy of the current term at any time, which is worth doing before a reset if you are at all unsure.