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Teacher Account Settings

Use Account Settings to manage your account: username, password, course and section settings, IDE preferences, download code, and more

Written by Sara Jenis
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Teacher Account Settings allows you to change settings for your CodeHS account and the Courses and Sections you teach. Account Settings include options for your Profile, IDE preferences, Teacher Profile, Courses, Sections, Notifications, AI features, Code History, Permissions, Licenses, and LMS Integrations.

Profile Settings

In your Profile Settings tab, you can change your password, email, and username. You also change your timezone, user icon, set Syntax Highlighting, and enable Accessibility Mode.


Teachers also have the ability to delete their account from the Profile Settings tab.

⚠️ Deleting your teacher account is permanent and cannot be reversed.

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Preferred Language

Set your preferred language under "Regional Settings" in the Profile Settings section.

Note: Not all CodeHS Courses have translations at this time.

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IDE

Set your default Code Editor settings in the IDE tab. You can also change the default Font Settings, Appearance Settings, and Editor Behavior Settings.

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Teacher Profile

Enable/Disable Auto-Archiving Sections and update your teaching experience in the Teacher Profile tab.

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Courses

In the Courses tab, you can see a list of the courses you teach. You can use the pencil icon to change Course names, view Active Sections using your Courses, add a Section, and access the Assignments and Course Settings pages.

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Sections

In the Sections tab, you can see all of your Sections, use the pencil icon to edit a Section’s name, archive or unarchive a Section, lock enrollment, and edit the timezone.

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Click on the three dots under the "More" field to access the Toolbox for a Section.

image displaying the toolbox after clicking the three dots under more in the section settings tab

Notification Settings

In the Notification Settings tab, you are able to control email notifications for when a student submits a Help question, when students send a message with CodeHS Conversations, or when students submit an assignment that needs to be graded by the teacher.

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Click on the bell icon to change how frequent you are notified.

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AI Settings

In the AI Settings tab, you can see if you have access to AI Features on CodeHS. With access to AI features, you view your usage and select which features you would like to be active in your account.

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Code History

In the Code History tab, you can download the code from all of your completed exercises, view your CodeHS uploads, and recover deleted sandbox programs.

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If you would like to print or download the code from a specific exercise, check out these articles:

Permissions

In the Permissions tab, you can see which plan level you have.

Licenses

In the Licenses tab, you can see which CodeHS license you have.

For more information on CodeHS Licenses, feel free to check out this article: Understanding Your CodeHS License πŸ“–

LMS Integration

In the LMS Integration tab, you can see which Learning Management System integration you have.
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Still have questions? Contact our team at support@codehs.com to learn more!

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