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What to do if a student accidentally signs in as a teacher or a teacher accidentally signs in as a student

Dan Amos avatar
Written by Dan Amos
Updated over 2 weeks ago

If you find that a student has signed in as a teacher by mistake, please fix this immediately as it is a privacy issue, and you'll be breaking our terms of service.

1. Student signed in with a Google or Office 365 account

If this is the case, you can just have the student sign out of Book Creator, and sign back in again using the Student tab. They'll get this message:

They'll need to follow the normal process for signing in, entering a teacher's library code to join a library.

Any books they have made will be locked, but you can find them by using the library picker in the top left of the toolbar. You can move these books into any new libraries the student has joined.

2. Student signed in with an email address

To help us fix this, we'll need the following information:

  1. The teacher's email address (to transfer any existing books made by the student)

  2. The email address of the student(s)

Note: if you find that students are purposely creating their own teacher accounts so they have their own libraries, this violates our terms and is a security risk for your students. Please do not allow this.

3. Downgrade students in bulk from the Admin Dashboard

There are situations where whole classes of students accidentally sign-in as a teacher within an organization, and it may be simpler to switch them in bulk.

Simply log into the Admin Dashboard > select the Teachers tab > select the checkboxes next to the users that are affected > select Bulk actions > select Switch to student. This will then automatically downgrade them from a teacher account to a student account on their next login.

4. Teacher signed in as a student 

If you signed in as a student but should have signed in as a teacher, you can update this yourself by logging out, clicking the 'I am a teacher' button and signing in with the same account details as before. You will get this message:


Visit this article for more information on teacher and student accounts.

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