Adding Students to Your Class

Adding Students to Your Class

Once you have created a class, add your students so you can start generating report comments.

Add a Student

1. Open your class from the Classes page
2. Click Add Student
3. Enter the student's name
4. If your school uses preferred names, you can also enter a preferred name (see below)
5. Choose their pronouns (he/him, she/her, they/them)
6. Click Add Student to save

Editing a Student's Details

Spotted a typo in a name, or need to change a student's pronouns? You don't need to delete and re-add them.

1. Open the class and find the student
2. Click the pencil icon on their row (on a computer, it appears when you hover over the row)
3. Update their name, preferred name or pronouns
4. Click Save changes

Their reports and review history stay attached.

Pronouns

Pronouns are used by ReportRocket to generate grammatically correct comments. Selecting the right pronouns ensures the generated text reads naturally.

Preferred Names

If your school has Two-Name Comments enabled (a school admin setting), you will see a Preferred Name field when adding or editing students.

• Enter the name the student goes by in the classroom (e.g. "Alex" for "Alexander")
• Leave it blank if the student uses their enrolled name
• ReportRocket uses your style guide to determine how each name appears in generated comments
• Your school admin can also include preferred names when they import classes in bulk

See Using preferred names for more details.

When a Student Changes Class

If a student moves to a different class in your school, ask your school admin to move them rather than adding them again. A move keeps every report, draft and review pack attached to the student. See School administrator overview.

Deactivating vs. Deleting

Deactivate

For students who leave the school:

• Their reports are preserved
• Their school pool seat is freed if no reports have been generated for them yet
• You can reactivate them later

Delete

For a student added by mistake:

• Only offered when the student has no reports in any class or semester
• This cannot be undone

See Deactivating students for more guidance.

Adding a Whole Class at Once

Teachers add students one at a time. If your school uses ReportRocket, your school admin can instead create classes with all their students from a spreadsheet, in School Admin > Classes > Bulk Import. See School administrator overview.

Next Steps

• Using preferred names
• Deactivating students
• Creating your first class