- Create a school account and your first group

The easiest way to create a group in LoopMe is by starting from a predefined content package found in the LoopMe Library. In your group you can then customize the content to your needs. 

But before you start, you need to find out the following:

• Will you create the school's first group and thus a new school account?
  Then you are on the right place - please follow the guide below!

• Has a colleague already created a group and a school account?
  This means that your colleague is the administrator of your school account and he/she needs to give you the rights to create your group within the school account. Click on the link and follow this guide instead.

• Not sure if you already have a school account or not?
  Please contact us at the support and we will help you find out.

Guide: Here's how to create your school account and the your first LoopMe group

• Start your browser (Safari, Firefox or Chrome) and go to www.loopme.io 
  
  
• Click the button GET STARTED 
  
  
  
  
• Click the button TAKE ME TO THE LIBRARY
  
  

• Select a content package by clicking the basket icon
  
  
  
• Click the basket icon at the bottom right
  

• In the menu, click CREATE NEW GROUP
  
  
  
• Since this is the first time that you are using LoopMe, you need to create a personal account. Click the link Register.
  

• Enter your name, email and set a personal password to your account. Click the button REGISTER
  

• Enter a name for your group (for example the name of the class)
  

• Enable the check box The group consist of students
  

• Enable the check box Create the group in a new organization*, and name your school account.
   
   
  Note! 

  You only need to create a new organization (your school account) the first time you create a group. (if you are the first person in your school to start using LoopMe).

  When you want to create your next group in LoopMe, you create it within the same school account. (Choose to create the group within an existing organization and click on your school account in the drop-down menu).

• You will be suggested to use the role titels that comes with the selected content package. Enable these role titles within each drop down list. 
  
   
• Click CREATE GROUP 

Gratulations - You have now created your first group in LoopMe!
All you need to do now is to publish some tasks, set the data retention time, and invite others to your group!


Manage tasks within your group

• In the Task Tab/Manage tasks you can edit the tasks that you were given from the content package. 
  
  
  
• Make your changes within the task and click UPDATE
   
  

• When you decide to publish a task you change the status of the task from Hidden to Published
   
  
  

• If you want to prepare for automatic publisation of tasks you can set publishing dates by using the Calendar. 
   

• As soon as you have published a task, it will be visible as an active task in the Task Overview. Click the Tab Task Overview.
  
  

Set data retention time

According to GDPR you, as an administrator of a LoopMe group,  always need to inform the members of your group, how long you will store data in LoopMe (the loops and the comments). You also need to explainwhy. This is very easy to do, just follow these steps:

• Click the Home Tab for your group. Here you will find an information box for Data retention. As you see, your group already have the setting of 3 months. 
  
  
  

• Click Information and then Change
  

• Scroll down to Retention time and click EDIT
  
  
  

• Select the number of months that you are planning to store the data within LoopMe
  
  
  

• Enter a text describing your purpose with collecting the data / or click the button SHOW EXAMPLE TEXTS and select one of the suggested texts. 
  
  
  
• Click SAVE

Invite others to your group

You can intvite others to your group in two different ways; by giving them an open code, or by inviting them by email.

Using an open code

• Click the Members Tab
  
  
  
• Click the button  Invite member
  
  
  
• Select Open Codes
  
  
  
• For the role that you whant to invite - click Create open code
  
  
  
• The system will generate a code for you that you give to your students
  (This code is valid as long as you don't disable the code).
  
  

Your students enter the group by starting their browser (Safari, Firefox or Chrome),
and go to www.loopme.io 

• They click the button GET STARTED 
  
  
  
• They click the button REGISTER A LOOPME ACCOUNT
  
  
  
• They enter name, email, password - and your open code - then click REGISTER
  
  

Invite by email

• Click the Members Tab
  
  
  
• Click the button Invite member
  
  
  
• Select Send invitations
  
  
  
• For the role that you whant to invite - click Invite by email
  
  
  
• Enter the email address(es) and click Add e-mails
  
  
  
• When you've entered all the email adresses, click Invite
  
  
  
• Your students enter the group by opening the email invitation in their Mailboxes and click the link within the email.
  
  
  
• They enter their name and set a password - then click REGISTER
  

Please Note!

When you want to create your second group in LoopMe - create it within the same organization. You will find the organization in the drop-down menu when you create the next group.