With our recent launch of Subscriptions, many Tripline features are now only available with a paid subscription. However, in order to continue allowing educators around the world to use Tripline with their students, we’ve developed a special process to grant special access to Tripline at no charge.
Step 1: Request Educator Access for yourself
- If you don’t have one already, create a Tripline account for yourself using your official email address (e.g., jkeating@welton-academy.edu) Note that .edu isn’t required, but the email should have the same domain that your institution uses.
- If you’re creating a new Tripline account, be sure to verify your email address in Tripline. You’ll get a verification email after signup and there are links on the site. It only takes a second.
- Using your official email account, send an email to support@tripline.net with the subject line “Requesting Educator Access”. Include your Tripline username, a link to your institutions’s website, and let us know approximately how many students you have and what sort of project you’re working on. If you’re ready now, you can click the button below, or you can send us an email manually later.
- As soon as we verify your request, we’ll grant you special access and email you back. Turnaround will be quick during US business hours, but may take longer if you’re outside the US due to time zones.
Step 2: Create placeholder trips for each student
- In your Tripline account, create placeholder (empty) trips for each student. It’s probably best to add their name or initials to the title so you remember which is which. You can keep the trips private if you’d like.
Step 3: Add students to the trips you created for them
- Have each of your students create free Tripline accounts. Make sure you know which email address they use for their accounts or ask them for their Tripline username. Note: It’s not required for them to verify their email addresses, but they can if they want.
- Go into each of the placeholder trips you created in Step 2 and invite each student to their individual trip as a Traveler using the Add People feature. It’s probably easiest to invite them using their email address, but you can invite by Tripline username as well.
- Each student will receive an invitation to their individual trip by email. If they don’t have access to email, they can log in to Tripline and they’ll see the invitation on the Home page Inbox section. If they’re already logged in, just have them refresh the Home page and the invitation will show up.
- Once they accept the invitation, they’ll have access to edit the trip on their own and it will show up in their list of trips. The only thing they won’t be able to do is delete the trip.
That’s it. A bit more effort on your side, but not too much. We’ve already tested this process with several teachers and they’ve told us that it worked smoothly. If you have any trouble, please email us via support@tripline.net.
We’re excited that so many educators are using Tripline and we’re committed to making it available to you at no cost forever. From our perspective, every student that knows a bit more about geography makes the world a better place, and that’s worth a lot to us.