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# Creating your own groups for Myndr with the School-specific extension

If your school uses the School-specific extension, you can manage your groups yourself. Here is a short explanation of how that works and what to keep in mind.
Not sure whether your school uses this installation method? Go to the Myndr dashboard, click the people icon in the top right and choose **Organisation details**. Then check under **Modules** which method you are using.

### 1. Go to the Myndr dashboard.

Sign in to the [Myndr dashboard](https://admin.myndr.nl).

### 2. Go to **Groups**.

Click **Groups** in the left-hand menu.

### 3. Create a new group.

Click the "New group" button:

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A pop-up window appears. Fill it in:

- **Name**: A name that is easy to tell apart. The year group is often enough (e.g. Group 7).
- **Description**: An optional extra description of the group.
- **For younger students**: Tick this for groups with students who cannot read yet. This gives them a picture-based sign-in and also makes sure the group is shown on the first sign-in screen. If this box is not ticked, the students get a number-based sign-in and have to click **Show other groups** when signing in to see their group. To make it as easy as possible for the young students, we show their groups first.
- **Code refreshes on**: This indicates how often the sign-in code changes. Normally this is every day, but you can set this differently per school and per group.

Click **Save** to create the group.

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### 4. Add a picture (optional).

You can add a photo or picture to make the group recognisable. But you don't have to: a photo of every teacher of the group is also shown, if one has been set. So you can say "When signing in, choose group Hippo", or "When signing in, choose the group with my photo".

1. Click the three dots of a group.
1. Click **Add picture**.
1. Click **Choose file**.
1. Choose the photo you want from your computer.
1. Drag the handles to position the photo nicely.
1. Click **Save**.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/5/d/8/5/5d85cd828c1b4400/foto-uploaden_13hhaeq.png)

### 5. Add teachers to the group (optional).

To make the group recognisable, you can link teachers to the group. If the teachers have not been created yet, you need to do that first. You can then skip this step and instead choose the groups while creating the teachers. Both directions work the same way. See the next step for creating teachers.

1. Click the three dots of a group.
1. Click **Assign teachers**.
1. Tick **Teaches class** if this teacher teaches this class.
1. Tick **Manage** if the teacher is also allowed to manage the switch in the Myndr dashboard and view statistics.

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1. Click **Save**.

### 6. Create teachers (optional).

When you create teachers, you can decide who teaches a particular group and who can manage the switch and view statistics in the Myndr dashboard.

1. Click **Team** in the left-hand menu.
1. The correct tab, **Teachers**, is already active. If not, click the tab.
1. Click **New teacher**.

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1. Enter the teacher's email address.

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1. Click **Next**.
1. Enter the teacher's name. Only the first name is required. Note: this step is skipped if the email address already exists.

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1. Click **Next**.
1. If you want to upload a photo, click **Choose file**, or skip this and click **Next**.

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1. Choose the groups you want to link this teacher to.

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1. Tick **Teaches class** if this teacher teaches this class.
1. Tick **Manage** if the teacher is also allowed to manage the switch in the Myndr dashboard and view statistics.
1. Click **Save**.