How to Add a Co-Teacher

Adding a co-teacher allows you and another teacher to assign articles and monitor students’ activity. As a co-teacher, you will be able to take the following actions:

  • view your co-teachers assignments

  • see your shared students' annotations, write responses, and quiz scores

  • create assignments to a shared group of students

Both teachers must be associated with the same school on Newsela. Follow these steps to add a co-teacher for different types of classes:

Adding a co-teacher to a Newsela classroom, created with a class code

  • Navigate to your Settings by clicking your initials in the upper right-hand corner and selecting Settings

  • Select Class Directory on the right hand side of the settings page

  • Select a class you wish to add a co teacher to 

  • Select the Teachers tab

  • Click the blue Invite Co-teacher button in the right hand corner

Note: Once you add a co-teacher, you cannot remove the co-teacher.

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Adding a co-teacher to a Google Classroom in Newsela

  • In Google Classroom, add your co-teacher. The co-teacher will need to accept an email invitation from Google Classroom.

  • On Newsela, have your co-teacher also import the Google Classroom in their Class directory. Both teachers need to have imported the Google Classroom.

Note: Both teachers must select the same Google grade level when importing to Newsela. If one teacher removes the class on Newsela, it will also be removed from the co-teacher's Newsela account.


Adding a co-teacher to a Clever classroom in Newsela

Co-teachers in a Clever classroom on Newsela must be added in Clever.

For more information on how to sync a co-teacher to a Clever classroom in Newsela, you can refer to Clever's Support Center: https://support.clever.com/hc/s/articles/115000988748?language=en_US


Adding a co-teacher to a Canvas classroom in Newsela

Co-teachers in a Canvas classroom on Newsela must be added in Canvas.

For more information on how to sync a co-teacher to a Canvas classroom in Newsela, you can contact your school's Canvas administrator.

Adding a co-teacher to a Classlink classroom in Newsela:

Co-teachers in a Classlink classroom on Newsela must be added in Classlink.

For more information on how to sync a co-teacher to a Classlink classroom in Newsela, you can contact your school's Classlink administrator.

Adding a co-teacher to a Schoology classroom in Newsela

When you'd like to add a co-teacher to a class you've imported via Schoology, they will need to be added in Schoology to be co-teachers for that classroom in Newsela.

Please contact your Schoology admin to add co-teachers to courses in Schoology.