CommonLit Digital Educator Experience
For educators on commonlit.org
CommonLit Sign-Up
- Quick Start Guide For Teachers
- I sent a request to CommonLit and never heard back. What did I do wrong?
- 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 cannot find my school in your system during sign up. Can you add my school?
- Why isn't my school-issued email accepted during sign up? How do I sign up?
- Why does CommonLit want to know about my school’s level of technology?
Teacher Account Management
- I have changed schools and want to change my subscription email address, but the website won't allow it. How do I update my email?
- How do I change my school?
- How can I update information on my account?
- How do I delete my account?
- How do I change my preferred state standards?
- Where can I update my profile information?
The CommonLit Library
- Who can I contact about a mistake in a text or with suggestions for the library?
- Why doesn't read aloud, annotations, or translate work on the text Masks by Shel Silverstein?
- Is there a chart of Lexile ranges and the grade(s) associated with Lexiles?
- What are the standards CommonLit uses? Where can I view all the standards?
- Every time I try to open or access a text, it keeps sending me back to the library. Why can't I access this text?
- I want to respect copyright and permission rules. What am I allowed to do with CommonLit reading materials and resources? Can I download and print articles and tests? Can I share them? Can I put your test items in a larger school test?
CommonLit's Text Features
- Can students highlight or add notes to an assignment? How do students annotate?
- Can I try out annotations? How can I model annotations for my students?
- Why does CommonLit use "they" instead of "him" or "her" when referring to the speaker of a poem or one person on the site?
- Is there a parent guide for texts?
- Can I change the Lexile level of a text?
- Do you have accessibility supports for struggling readers, students with IEPs, or ELLs?
Create and Manage Classes
- How do I add a co-teacher to my class?
- What is Clever? Is CommonLit integrated with Clever?
- How do I add a student to my class?
- Is CommonLit integrated with Google Classroom?
- Is there a limit to how many students can be in a class?
- Is there a limit to how many co-teachers I can add to a class?
Student Account Creation
- Quick Start Guide for Students
- If I import with Google Classroom, how do my students log in to their accounts?
- How do my students log in with Clever?
- How should I prepare my students to use CommonLit Digital?
- How do students create their accounts? I don't plan to use Google Classroom or Clever.
- What information does a student need to create an account?
Managing Student Accounts
- Does CommonLit offer a student preview for teachers?
- I have a new student. How do I update my Google Classroom roster?
- Does CommonLit provide a Letter for Families that teachers can send home to parents or guardians about the program?
- My student cannot log in - how do I reset their password? Can they reset their own password without me?
- Why are students who were imported with Google or Clever asked to set a password? Isn't the point of the Log in with Clever or Log in with Google buttons that they don't need to remember a CommonLit password?
- How is a student entered into another classroom the next year after they have signed up using their google account the previous year?
Creating Assignments
- Can I customize which questions my students can answer?
- Can I assign the multiple choice questions as one assignment and the short answer questions as another assignment?
- Can I assign only guided reading mode?
- Can I assign a text to students without any questions? Can I assign only annotations?
- Can I edit the short answer questions?
- Can I choose which multiple choice or which short answer questions students can answer?
Managing Assignments
- What do I do if a student needs to retake an assignment? Can I reset or unsubmit a student's assignment?
- Why didn't my assignment post to Google Classroom?
- Why can't I export scores to Google Classroom?
- Why do students only see the one type of question (just multiple choice or just short answer) when I assigned all assessment questions?
- How can I see if students have started their annotations or guided reading?
- Can I assign different parts of an assignment or different sets of questions at different times?
Assessment Scoring
- Why can't I release scores?
- Why can't I see the grading page?
- Can I release scores without grading the short answer portion of the assessment?
- Can I view only the multiple choice average or short answer average for a student's assignment?
- I am limited in how I can enter grades in my gradebook. How can I change CommonLit percentage scores to fractions for point based grading?
- What do the colors mean on the assignment report?
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?
- My students completed their assignments. Why can't I see their scores on Student Performance?
- Can I view or track data on student performance by standard?