Accounts and roles

You can access the Applied Digital Skills curricula in the role of a teacher, co-teacher, or student. Using your Google account on the Applied Digital Skills website allows you to choose which role applies to you and interact with others. 

Teachers and co-teachers can build classes, assign lessons, make announcements, and review student work. Students can access their lessons, complete assignments, and receive feedback from their teachers.

We recommend that parents and guardians using Applied Digital Skills with their kids use the platform as a teacher, while people learning independently use the platform as a student.

Create an Applied Digital Skills account

Switch account roles

You may sign up for your Applied Digital Skills account as a teacher or a student.

These steps can be used to switch roles for reasons such as:

• A student accidentally signed up as a teacher.
• A teacher would like to switch to a student account.

You can change the role associated with an account by following these steps:

1. Sign in to the Applied Digital Skills account. Make sure to use the same email address that was used to set up the Applied Digital Skills account.
2. Navigate to My profile (either in the side menu of your dashboard, or by clicking on Teacher or Student in the top right corner of the page).
3. View the account type (teacher or student).
4. Click on the Switch to Student or Switch to Teacher link under the account type.

Use Applied Digital Skills without setting up a class or signing in

Signing in with a Gmail address is required to be able to complete lessons. While you can view the lessons and videos without signing in, you will not be able to complete the projects using Google Workspace (Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc.).

Most lessons can be completed using different applications if Google Workspace is not suitable. As a teacher, you can modify the projects by instructing the students to watch the videos and apply what they have learned using a different application (for example, other word processing or presentation programs).

While using other software programs will allow students to practice some of the digital skills they have learned, students may not be able to perform some tasks that are taught in the videos, such as making comments on other students’ work or collaborating on projects in real time.

Download account data

You can download a copy of your Applied Digital Skills data directly from your student or teacher profile. This is helpful if you want to have a backup of your data or want to use it with a service outside of Google. Read our Help Center article Privacy and Security for full instructions.