CommonLit Digital Educator Experience
For educators on commonlit.org
CommonLit Sign-Up
- Quick Start Guide For Teachers
- Why isn't my school-issued email accepted during sign up? How do I sign up?
- I cannot find my school in your system during sign up. Can you add my school?
- Can homeschool teachers, parents, guardians, and tutors sign up for CommonLit?
- Why does CommonLit want to know about my school’s level of technology?
- I want to bring CommonLit to my school. Are there any steps I need to take to authorize my teachers to create accounts prior to a professional development session?
Teacher Account Management
- How can I update information on my account?
- Where can I update my profile information?
- How do I change my school?
- How do I change my preferred state standards?
- I did not receive my confirmation email — what should I do?
- What should I do if I have not received a reset password email?
The CommonLit Library
- Who can I contact about a mistake in a text or with suggestions for the library?
- How do I find texts?
- Do you offer Spanish texts?
- How can I browse the library by theme?
- How do I search for texts by book title?
- How can I use text sets in my classroom?
CommonLit's Text Features
- How do students annotate? Can students highlight and add notes or annotations to an assignment?
- How can I use CommonLit texts in my lessons?
- How can I use paired texts in my classroom?
- How can I use related media in my classroom?
- How can I use the discussion questions in my lesson?
- Discussion Questions: Which types of questions can students answer through the CommonLit platform?
Create and Manage Classes
- How do I add a co-teacher to my class?
- How do I add a student to my class?
- How do I create and manage classes using Google Classroom?
- What is Clever? Is CommonLit integrated with Clever?
- All the Clever classes have long, similar names that are hard to tell apart. Can I change the name of a Clever class?
- Can I change the class owner of my shared class?
Student Account Creation
Managing Student Accounts
- My student has forgotten their password. What should I do?
- What do I do if my student cannot remember their username?
- How do I remove a student from my class?
- What should I do if a student has created more than one account?
- What should I do if my student appears twice on my class roster?
- How can a student with an existing account add another class code to join my class?
Google Classroom Integration
- Is CommonLit integrated with Google Classroom?
- How can I import classes and students from Google Classroom?
- Can I post assignments to Google Classroom?
- Can I export or share scores from CommonLit on Google Classroom?
- If I import with Google Classroom, how do my students log in to their accounts?
- Does CommonLit provide materials to train or guide teachers on its Google Classroom integration?
Creating Assignments
- Does CommonLit offer a diagnostic pre-assessment?
- Can I customize which questions my students can answer?
- How do I share an assignment to Canvas, Schoology, or another LMS?
- How do I share an assignment?
- Is the pre-assessment available as a PDF?
- Why can't my students see the pre-assessment?
Managing Assignments
- What do I do if a student needs to retake an assignment? Can I reset or unsubmit a student's assignment?
- How do my students complete an assignment?
- How can I edit an assignment?
- Why is the text partially blurred on my students' assignments?
- How can I leave feedback or make comments on my students' annotations?
- How do my students see their assignment scores and writing feedback?
Assessment Scoring
- How do I grade students' written short-answer responses?
- How does the short answer grading scale work?
- Is there a rubric for grading short answer responses?
- How is the total score calculated, including part a/part b multiple choice questions and short answer questions? (Short Version)
- How are assignments scored? (Long Version)
- How many points are each multiple-choice and short-answer question worth?
Student Performance
- Can I track student performance across assignments or over time?
- Can I view individual student progress or performance reports?
- Can I print or export assignment and student performance data?
- Can I view or track data on student performance by standard?
- My students completed their assignments. Why can't I see their scores on Student Performance?