Creating Teacher and Student Accounts

Creating Teacher and Student Accounts

This article does not apply to schools with a Clever/LiFT integration. All Users, whether Teachers or Students, automatically log into LiFT directly through Clever.


The process for creating and managing LiFT accounts for both Teachers and Students is fundamentally the same. The principal difference is that Teachers accounts are administered in the Facilitator’s Teachers module and Students accounts are administrated in the Facilitator’s Students module. Throughout this article, the use of the term Users will apply to both Teachers and Students, but the steps will be illustrated for both.

The Teachers Module


The Students Module



There are two ways to create LiFT User Accounts: you can add individual Users one at a time, or you can upload multiple Users using a spreadsheet. Adding individual Users one at a time is fairly quick, but if you have a large number of Users, it may be best to upload them all at once using a spreadsheet. Since there are typically fewer teachers than students, teachers are more often added individually and students are more often added via upload, at least at the beginning of a school year.

Option 1: Adding Individual Users to LiFT

Click on the orange Add Teacher or Add Student button.

Add Teacher Button


Add Student Button


A pop-up window will appear. For all Users, you are required to enter a First Name, Last Name and Email Address. You are welcome to add a title for Teachers, or a Grade and Transcript details for Students, but that is not required. In a larger school or district, including a grade helps identify students when searching for them, or grouping them for reports.
New Teacher Form

New Student Form

Once you click on the orange Create button in the lower left corner of the pop-up window, that user account will be created. All User accounts – whether New or Active (already activated) – will appear on the list in the appropriate module.


Option 2: Uploading Multiple Users into LiFT

From either the Teachers module or the Students module, click on the orange Download Spreadsheet button.

Download Teacher Spreadsheet

Download Student Spreadsheet


A pop-up window will appear. Select either an Excel file or a CSV (comma-separated values) file.




You can also select whether you want just a template or data in your spreadsheet. For your first year onboarding users into LiFT, you just need a template. For subsequent years, it is helpful to get your existing data in the spreadsheet to update.

When you’re ready, click on the orange Download button.

Save the resulting spreadsheet to your computer and then open it in your spreadsheet software. Add your users to their respective templates, with one user per row. The first three columns are required (Email Address, First Name and Last Name); the remaining columns are optional. It is important not to add, delete or reorder columns for the upload to work.

Sample Teacher Spreadsheet
Sample Student Spreadsheet

If you are updating existing data in your spreadsheet, do not delete any users who are no longer active; enter “TRUE” in column E to archive them.

When you’ve finished updating the spreadsheet, save the file to your computer. If you are working in Google Sheets, be sure to save the file on your computer in .xlsx or .csv format.

When you are ready to upload, click the orange Upload Spreadsheet button.

Upload Teacher Spreadsheet
Upload Student Spreadsheet

A pop-up window will appear. Review the spreadsheet requirements.

Click on the gray Browse button to locate the file you saved on your computer.

Then click the orange Upload button.

Your successful import will display at the top of your page. You will need to reload the page to refresh the data.

If there was a problem with the upload, you will see an error message. You need to fix the spreadsheet to address the problem, then upload the file again.

What's Important to Understand

The process for creating and managing LiFT accounts for Teachers and Students is fundamentally the same except in different modules – either the Teachers module or the Students module.

There are two ways to create user accounts: individually or by uploading a spreadsheet.

You are required to enter a valid Email Address, a First Name and a Last Name. The Email Address should be the school or district’s email address, particularly if your school uses a Google Workspace environment.


Well done. You have just created new accounts for your users. The accounts now need to be activated before your teachers can access LiFT. Please read the next article for assistance with account activation.


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