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A brand new version of smartadmin is now in Beta. We've included lots of new features that have been frequently requested including provisioning guardians to google, pulling profile pictures from your MIS, advanced password control and the long awaited AD sync. Beta smartadmin is available to all current realsmart admins and can be accessed here: https://provision.realsmart.co.uk/

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Automatically sync Parents and Guardians to Google Classroom

Syncs parents contacts from your MIS to realsmart and google classroom

Sync Staff and Students MIS Profile Photos to realsmart and google.

This requires the Optional "Photo read" scope to be allowed in your Wonde Dashboard

Reset passwords for a group of users in smartadmin

User creation and password management

Bulk Reset User Password

This article is for Admins only to reset staff or students passwords in bulk

How To Reset Student Passwords Using Your Teacher Account

Reset a students password

Manually Import Users Via CSV File

Update or create users by csv import

How to add users to realsmart groups

Manage your groups and classes in realsmart

How to change a username- change in google then realsmart.

always update google user 1st when re-naming users

Why are users being removed from manually created groups?

User was added to the MIS But Hasn't Appeared In realsmart

Force users to update their passwords

With new options to set password complexity, expiry duration and number of characters

Create a new user manually

Daily sync automatically creates any new users in your MIS but you need accounts that are not in your MIS. e.g Governors or supply staff etc.

Setting your Default Passwords

admins can change the default for staff and students

Deleting & Restoring realsmart Users

How to delete a user from realsmart and Google, and how to restore the user back to realsmart and Google.

Allow external users to send emails to a groups

Edit a realsmart group setting so external users can email a groups

Temporarily Protecting a group of Users

Chromebook sign in using realsmart QR codes

QR sign in for Primary Schools

Google Classroom - teacher is not appearing in a class

How to check teacher access for Google Classroom in smartadmin

How to add teachers to Google Classroom via smartadmin

There are many reasons you might want to add another teacher to a google classroom for example staff absence, class sharing or a head of department wants access to all subject classes.

Control your google group members roles in smartadmin

Decide which role your Staff should get- Member or Owner of google groups

Password Settings

Set default passwords, complexity, length and expiry duration

Chromebook login using realsmart

simplify chromebook login and sign your users straight into your school website

Restrict the ability for staff to reset students passwords

The default is to allow any staff member to reset any students password

Orphaned Classes in Google Classroom

What to do if you have unexpectedly lost access to a google classroom

QR Code Login into realsmart

Primary schools can easily log into realsmart and Google Workspace using QR Codes

Create a bespoke Google Classroom

Teachers or SLT are requesting bespoke Classes. Create them in smartadmin.

Users are being suspended that should not be -why is this happening?

If a user leaves the school the MIS will suspend the realsmart and google account.

Summer Admin Tidy-up

It’s the Summer Holidays and everyone knows that the summer holidays are a busy time for school administrators with lots of new kit to unbox and install. We have made it nice and easy for you to manage your year end jobs in smartadmin with the easy to follow guide and FAQ.

Smartsync settings guidance

Manage your data syncs

How to add users in bulk to realsmart groups

e.g. adding all of your year 7 students in to a new group

Password Sync

How to setup password sync, to get started please contact us about syncing your Active Directory passwords to realsmart.

How to upload a favicon to your site

Adding groups to groups in smartadmin

Creating a new group combining many existing groups

MFA Admin Guide

Setting up MFA for your users

Manage group settings

Easily manage your group setting in realsmart

Teaching-Staff and Non-Teaching-Staff Groups

Manage your teaching-staff group by staff Job roles.

New Users and Groups Admin role in realsmart

Not all Admins need superadmin access so we've created a simplified Admin role for Users, Groups and Apps management in smartadmin.

Active Directory Sync - Setting up the tool in Realsmart

This article will describe how to setup your data in Realsmart, to sync to your Active Directory install.

Connecting Realsmart to Apple School Manager via SFTP and Uploading Data

This tutorial will guide you through the process of setting up an SFTP connection between Realsmart and Apple School Manager (ASM) and uploading your student, staff, and class data using Apple-formatted CSV files.

Active Directory Sync - Setting Up Our Tool On Your Windows Server

How to setup the tool, and run the tool on your Windows Server

Quickly add users to groups from a csv

Adding users on mass to groups can be really time consuming. Realsmarts csv uploader simpifies and speeds up the process

Specific users are being suspended very often. Why is this happening?

Update users passwords via csv upload

Quickly change a group of your users passwords via a csv import. e.g all year 7s need a special default or a unique password

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