CommonLit Digital Educator Experience
For educators on commonlit.org
CommonLit Sign-Up
- Can homeschool teachers and tutors sign up for CommonLit?
- 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?
- 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?
- I sent a request to CommonLit and never heard back. What did I do wrong?
Teacher Account Management
- How can I update information on my account?
- 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?
- What should I do if I forgot my email, username, or password?
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 can I use text sets in my classroom?
- Where can I find the Lexile or grade level for each text?
CommonLit's Text Features
- How do students annotate? Can students highlight and add notes or annotations to an assignment?
- What accessibility tools and supports does CommonLit provide for struggling readers and students with IEPs?
- What tools and supports does CommonLit provide for English Language Learners?
- Can I print CommonLit texts and questions?
- Which types of questions can students answer for Library Lessons assigned digitally on the CommonLit platform?
- How can I use CommonLit texts in my instruction?
Create and Manage Classes
- Can I change the class owner of my shared class?
- How can I transfer or move students between classes? Can I transfer or move a student to a new class without losing their data?
- How do I add a co-teacher to my class or join a class as a co-teacher?
- How do I add a student to my class?
- How do I archive an old class?
- How do I create classes?
Student Account Creation
Managing Student Accounts
- How can I remove a student from my class?
- I removed a student from my class by accident. How can I add a removed student back to my class?
- My student has forgotten their password. How do I reset their password? Can students reset their own passwords?
- My student's name changed. How do I ensure their name is changed throughout CommonLit, including their username?
- What should I do if a student has created more than one account?
- Can I merge duplicate student accounts imported from Clever, Google Classroom, Canvas, or ClassLink?
Google Classroom Integration
- How do I connect or disconnect my CommonLit Account from Google Classroom?
- Is CommonLit integrated with Google Classroom?
- How can I import classes and students from Google Classroom?
- How do I add a new Google Classroom student?
- If I import with Google Classroom, how do my students log in to their accounts?
- Can I post assignments to Google Classroom?
Canvas Integration
- Quick Start Guide to Canvas
- Using Canvas Sections with CommonLit
- How will CommonLit import my Canvas courses? What if a Canvas course is cross-listed?
- How do I import a Canvas course?
- If I import my course from Canvas, how do my students log in to their accounts?
- How do I post or add an assignment to Canvas?
ClassLink Integration
- How do I add a new student to my ClassLink synced classes?
- How can co-teachers join ClassLink classes?
- Can I change the name of a ClassLink class?
- I no longer want to use my ClassLink classes. Can I remove them?
- Why can't I log in using ClassLink?
- How often does CommonLit update my ClassLink rosters?
Clever Integration
- What is Clever? Is CommonLit integrated with Clever?
- How do I log in or sign up with Clever?
- How do I import my Clever sections as classes in CommonLit?
- All the Clever classes have long, similar names that are hard to tell apart. Can I change the name of a Clever class?
- I want to connect to Clever but my students already have CommonLit accounts. What should I do?
- I no longer want to use my Clever classes. Can I remove them?
CommonLit Free Reading Assessment
- Does CommonLit offer a diagnostic for the beginning of the year?
- How do I schedule the Free Reading Assessment?
- How should I administer the Free Reading Assessment?
- What does a Free Reading Assessment look like for students? Is there a student preview of the assessment?
- How do I view the Free Reading Assessment data?
- What kind of data will the CommonLit Free Reading Assessment give me?
Target Lessons
- Where can I find the teacher copy of a Target Lesson?
- What is a Target Lesson?
- Are Target Lessons free?
- How do I find Target Lessons?
- How do I teach a Target Lesson?
- How do I assign a Target Lesson?
Creating Assignments
- Can I customize which questions my students can answer on Library Lessons?
- Can I choose which multiple-choice or which short-answer questions students can answer on Library Lessons?
- Can I edit the short-answer questions for an assignment?
- How do I assign a Library Lesson?
- What types of assessments does CommonLit offer?
- How do I assign a lesson to a single student or small group of students?
Managing Assignments
- What do I do if a student needs to retake an assignment? Can I reset or unsubmit a student's assignment?
- My new students are not seeing their assignments even though they joined my class. Why can't they see their assignments?
- Why can't my students use read aloud, translate, or highlight?
- How do my students complete an assignment?
- How can I export assignment scores to my gradebook?
- How do I delete an assignment?
Assessment Scoring
- How are assignments scored? (Long version)
- Why can't I see the Grading page?
- Why can't I release scores?
- Can I view only the multiple choice average or short answer average for a student's assignment?
- Can I choose whether to show my students the correct answers when I release scores?
- How does the short answer grading scale work?
Student Performance
- How can I view data of a student who was removed from my class or moved between classes?
- My students completed their assignments. Why can't I see their scores on Student Performance?
- Can I print or export assignment and student performance data?
- Can I view individual student progress or performance reports?
- Can I download or print off individual student reports for an entire class at once?
- Can I track student performance across assignments or over time?