ManageBac+ Community Onboarding Webinars
Explore a collection of on-demand webinars designed to help schools successfully introduce ManageBac+ to educators, students, and parents. These resources provide practical guidance, implementation advice, and platform navigation tips for every member of your school community.
Whether you are preparing for your first ManageBac+ rollout or supporting new users each academic year, these webinars offer guidance from both experienced educators and the ManageBac+ Support team.
The sessions are tailored to different audiences, helping schools establish best practices while ensuring students and parents feel confident using the platform.
Overview
The Educator Perspective
How to prepare your community and teachers to work together during implementation
This session features experienced Middle Years Coordinator Hope Forgey from the International School of Denver, who shares their school's implementation timeline along with practical strategies for introducing ManageBac+ to students and parents and maintaining engagement throughout the school year.
Guest presenter: Hope Forgey, Middle Years Coordinator and Design Teacher. Hope has worked at the International School of Denver since 2009, helped establish the school's IB programme in 2011, achieved IB authorisation in 2013, and has used ManageBac+ since the programme began.
The Support Team Perspective
How to onboard your community with ManageBac+
Best practices for opening access to students and parents, including login, training, activity monitoring, and mobile access.
This webinar provides guidance from the ManageBac+ Support team on preparing your platform before granting access to students and parents. It also covers practical approaches for introducing the platform and supporting your school community during onboarding.
ManageBac+ for Students
How to navigate, track deadlines, and submit coursework
This webinar is designed for students using ManageBac+ on both web and mobile devices.
The session explains platform navigation, tracking deadlines, submitting coursework, and includes useful tips for both new and experienced users.
ManageBac+ for Parents
How to navigate and monitor your child's academic progress
This webinar is aimed at parents and focuses on navigating ManageBac+ effectively.
The session explains how parents can monitor their child's activities, attendance, behaviour, and academic progress through the platform.
Best Practices to On-boarding your Community
Access our Demo Account
To explore our Demo Account, where you can log in as a student or parent point of view, please email support@managebac.com for credentials.
Admin users can access this account by navigating to Settings and clicking on the "Demo Sandbox" image on the right panel:
We recommend using this platform to become familiar with what each user type can see. To learn more about each user view, see What do Students & Parents See on ManageBac+?
Add a fake Student & Parent
Add fake/dummy/test users to your schools account, and log in from their perspective. You can then use that user during orientation evenings with your parents or introduction sessions with students, or to create your own school-specific custom tutorials
Note: You will not be charged for adding test/fake/dummy user accounts.
Follow onboarding guidance & webinars
Every new academic year, we run webinars on different user experiences and how to open to your community. Please find our On-Demand Webinars here: https://events.faria.org/on-demand-webinars
To learn more, see Introducing Parents & Students to ManageBac+
Upload Student and Parent Handbooks
You can add handbooks to ManageBac+ which serve as an overview as to how you will be using ManageBac+ within your school, what users are expected to do, how often they should login etc.
Please find example guide below which you may wish to adapt to your needs
We suggest to add:
- Add your own schools name and logo
- Add your schools unique ManageBac+ URL
- Add in your own FAQs depending on how you wish to use ManageBac+
Frequently Asked Questions
When should welcome emails be sent to students and parents?
Welcome emails can be sent as soon as students and parents have been imported into ManageBac+, or after you have introduced the platform through activities such as assemblies, orientation sessions, or training materials. Password links included in welcome emails remain valid for 30 days.
For guidance on resending welcome emails, refer to the linked Help Centre article.
Does parent access to unit plans affect how teachers write them?
Parents can view the front page of published units, including titles, dates, and general information such as MYP Key Concepts. Increased visibility has encouraged teachers to provide more complete and informative unit overviews.
Can students and parents view every unit?
Not necessarily. Teachers can prevent a unit from being visible by marking it as Draft when creating or editing the unit. Only published units are available to students and parents.
How can schools send regular updates to parents?
The Parents Association includes a message board that allows schools to send communications to all parents or to selected year groups via email.
In Summary
- Access webinar resources tailored for educators, support staff, students, and parents.
- Learn best practices for successfully introducing ManageBac+ across your school community.
- Use the accompanying FAQs to support common onboarding and communication questions.
These webinar resources provide practical guidance to help every member of your school community make the most of ManageBac+.