This guide helps you close out last year's Stile Subjects and set up for the year ahead. If you are new to Stile or need a refresher after the break, see Getting Started with Stile and the self-paced training modules in the Professional Learning Hub.
Step 1: Clean up last year's Subjects
Hide quizzes and tests
Students can still access old work and see released answers unless you hide them. Review what is still visible and hide anything you do not want students to access anymore. You may want to leave some Sessions open, such as unit glossaries or major projects.
Archive your Subjects
Archive last year's Subjects regardless of whether you plan to reuse the Sessions or start fresh. Archiving removes the Subject from students' home pages while preserving their work in a read-only state.
Note: Subjects with co-teachers can only be archived by your school's Stile Admin. If you need to leave a shared Subject, archive your Class or Classes within it, duplicate the Subject if you want to keep the Sessions, then remove yourself as a co-teacher. See Add another teacher to your Subject or remove a co-teacher.
Stile content is regularly updated, with the latest versions always available in the Stile Library. If you heavily customised Sessions from the Stile Library last year, duplicate your Subject to get a clean copy without any student work to use this year. If not, create fresh Subjects and pull the latest versions from the Stile Library. See Duplicate a Subject.
Step 2: Create new Subjects and Classes
Create new Subjects from your side menu if you did not duplicate from last year. If you teach the same content to multiple groups (e.g. 7D and 7G), create one Subject for the whole cohort and organise students into separate Classes via the Students page. See Create a new Subject and Create, archive, and manage Classes.
Step 3: Add Sessions to your Subjects
Add units from the Stile Science Library or your school library and organise them to suit your teaching plan.
Before students enrol, review which Sessions will be visible by default. Most Sessions from the Stile Library are released by default. Use the Hide All button on a Folder to hide everything at once, then release only what you want students to see first, such as an intro Session or pre-test.
Step 4: Enrol your students on day one
Give students time on the first day to log in, reset forgotten passwords, or create new accounts. Use the Class code from your Students page to get them enrolled quickly. See Add students.
To reduce login friction across the year, consider setting up Single Sign-on (SSO), which lets teachers and students log in using their existing school credentials. See Single Sign-on school integration.
You can also create temporary passwords for students who cannot access their accounts. See Reset a student password.
