Creating and managing 6K groups
As a teacher in the 6K practice room, create a group for your own class, take children in, keep the name list and dissolve the group again.
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In the 6K practice room the children don't all practise in one big pot but in groups, usually one per school class or choir. You create a group as a teacher, and the children attach themselves to it by name. This guide shows how to create a group, who gets in, what the name list tells you and how to dissolve it again at the end.
Only teachers may create groups. Everything you do in your group (appointments, name list, attendance) always applies to that one group only, never to the whole 6K practice room.
Prerequisite: the teacher key
You become a teacher by redeeming the teacher key from 6K UNITED!, not by someone promoting you in the app. Two routes lead there:
- You enter the teacher key as your access code right when you join. Then you're a teacher from the start.
- You joined with the general 6K access code and later choose Create group. cori then asks for the key at that point and upgrades you afterwards.
Teacher keys can have a limited number of redemptions and an expiry date. If yours is rejected even though you haven't mistyped it, get in touch with 6K UNITED!. cori can't issue a new key. A key from an earlier season won't work either.
Creating a group
In the app, go to Settings at the bottom of the 6K practice room; in the browser, click the cog at the top right or the Calendar tab. As long as you're not in any group, you'll find the two entries Join a group and Create group there.
If you're not a teacher yet, the teacher key prompt appears now. After that you move on to the name.
The name doubles as your group's address: the children later type it in word for word to find you. So pick something distinctive and easy to dictate. cori suggests school name and class as a pattern, for instance Lincoln School – Class 4B.
Done. You're automatically the lead of this group. In the app the Group tab with the name list plus Calendar appear at the bottom; in the browser, the Calendar tab.
If the name already exists, cori reports: “A group with this name already exists.” That's not a bug but by design. With two identically named groups, the children wouldn't know which is the right one. Add something extra, such as the school name or the town.
If you don't have a proper cori account yet, cori slots the account creation in once at this point and then creates the group automatically with the name you typed. The reason: without an email address or a Google or Apple sign-in, your group would be out of reach for you after switching devices or signing out.
How the children get in
There is no separate group code. The children join with the general 6K access code and then look for your group by name:
Say or write the group name exactly as you created it. The search only finds the exact name, not parts of it. Upper and lower case don't matter.
In the app, cori asks “Find your group!” right after joining; in the browser, the children choose Join a group in the settings. For a match, cori shows how many are already on board.
A tap on Join in, and the child is in your group. They show up in the name list straight away.
If a child can't find the group, the spelling is almost always to blame: hyphens, full stops and spaces have to match.
The name list
As a teacher you get an extra tab at the bottom of the app with your group. It lists all the children with their names and, if they've given one, their voice. As long as nobody has joined, it says: “No children have joined yet.” In the browser you see the children of your group under each appointment, in the “Who's coming” overview.
The bin icon next to a name removes a child from the group in the app, after a confirmation prompt. Their responses to your appointments disappear along with them. It doesn't throw them out of the 6K practice room, though: they can attach themselves to a group again right away, yours included.
The name list is fetched live from the server and isn't mirrored onto the children's devices. So children don't see their classmates' names in cori.
One group per person
Everyone in the 6K practice room is in exactly one group. If a child joins another group, they automatically leave the old one. No extra step is needed, and you don't have to remove anyone beforehand.
The same goes for you as a teacher: as long as you have a group, cori no longer shows the entries for creating and joining. So a single account can't run two groups side by side. Anyone looking after several classes currently needs a second teacher with their own account, or has to delete the existing group first.
Dissolving a group
As the lead of the group you don't leave it, you delete it:
Your group's name sits right at the top, with the Delete group action in red next to it.
cori asks once more; in the app it also requires the group name as confirmation.
The group disappears for everyone involved, together with all of that group's appointments.
The children themselves stay in the 6K practice room and keep their songs, videos and practice progress. Afterwards they can join another group.
What's next?
- Appointments for the group: Appointments in the 6K practice room
- What the children practise: Songs, videos and sheet music in the 6K practice room
- Roles and settings: Roles and settings in the 6K practice room
- Joining explained: Joining with the 6K access code
- Securing your account: From a 6K account to a full cori account
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