Linking Teacher & Parent account

Modified on Tue, 30 Sep at 9:14 AM

Question

Why would I need to link accounts?

Answer

Since email addresses must be unique across Schoology, you may have multiple Schoology accounts if:

You teach at more than one school.
You have multiple roles in your organization, for example:
- You are both a System Admin and a teacher in your school.
- You are a teacher, but also have a parent account in your school.
- You have different levels of permissions for different roles you perform in your organization.
You have children at multiple schools that use different Schoology accounts.
Your district uses Schoology, and you also are part of another organization that uses Schoology for professional development.
You are an instructor in your organization, but you also participate in continuing or higher education courses in a different organization to use Schoology.

In these cases, linking your accounts allows you to switch between them without logging out.

Question

How do I link accounts?

Answer

Log in to one of your accounts (if you use one more than the other, log into your primary account). Then follow these steps:

Select on your name as it appears in the top right corner of Schoology.
Select Settings.
Select Link Accounts.
Enter your credentials for your other account; ie the username or email address and password you use to log into the account you are not currently logged into.
Select Link Account to complete.

Select a Primary email address for linked accounts

A list of your primary account and linked account(s) is displayed in the Link Account area upon completion.

Note: If you have multiple primary email addresses for these accounts, enable the feature to Select a primary email address. This enables email notifications for each linked account to go to the single primary email address listed in this area.

Question

How do I unlink accounts?

Answer

To remove a link with another account:

Select the downfacing arrow in the upper-right of Schoology.
Select Account Settings in the dropdown menu.
Scroll near the bottom of the Account Settings page until you see a list of your linked accounts.
Select the x to the right of the account you want to unlink. This removes the link from your primary account.
Select Unlink Account to complete.

Note: You may only remove linked accounts; you may not remove a primary account. Once you unlink an account, you can still log in to each account separately, using their respective login credentials.

Question

How do I restrict access to Account Linking?

Answer

If you are a System Administrator in a school or organization and you'd like restrict account linking access for certain user (for example, if you do not want to allow students to link accounts), you can disable the account linking permission for specific roles from the User Settings section in the Manage Users area.