The easiest way to create a group in LoopMe is by starting from a predefined content package found in the LoopMe library. In your group you can then customize the content to your needs. 

Before you start

To create a group you need to have an existing organizational account in LoopMe and you  need to have the right to create groups with your LoopMe account.

• If you you know that you are the first person in your organization that will work with LoopMe, please contact our Support Team and we will help you get started. 
• If you know that your organization already are working with LoopMe, please contact your organizations LoopMe administrator *. The administrator can either send you an invitation via email or give you a special invitation code (see the guide below).
• *If you don't know if your organization already are working with LoopMe - please contact our Support Team and we will check that for you.

Guide: Here's how to create a LoopMe group 

•  Start your browser (Safari, Firefox or Chrome) and go to www.loopme.se
• Sign In with your personal LoopMe account
  
  
  
• Click on the menu LIBRARY
  
  

• Select a content package by clicking the basket icon
  
  
• Click the basket icon at the bottom right

• In the menu, click CREATE NEW GROUP
  
• 1 Enter a name for your group (for example the name of the class)
• 2 Enable the check box The group consist of students
• 3 Select your organisation
  You will find your schools organization in the drop-down menu
• 4 Select Roles. You will be suggested to use the role titels that comes with the selected content package. Enable these role titles within each drop down list.
• 5 Click CREATE GROUP 
  

 
Congratulations - You have now created your first group in LoopMe!
All you need to do now is to publish some tasks, set the data retention time, and invite others to your group!


Manage tasks within your group

• In the Task Tab/Manage tasks you can edit the tasks that you were given from the content package.
  
  Make your changes within the task and click UPDATE
  
• When you decide to publish a task, you change the status of the task from Hidden to Published
  
  
• If you want to prepare for automatic publisation of tasks you can set publishing dates by using the Calendar.
   
• As soon as you have published a task, it will be visible as an active task in the Task Overview. Click the Tab Task Overview.
  

Set data retention time

According to GDPR you, as an administrator of a LoopMe group,  always need to inform the members of your group, how long you will store data in LoopMe (the loops and the comments). You also need to explain why. This is very easy to do. Just follow these steps:

• Click the Home Tab for your group. Here you will find an information box for Data retention. As you see, your group already have the setting of 3 months.
  

• Click Information and then Change.                          
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• Scroll down to Retention time and click EDIT
  

• Select the number of months that you are planning to store the data within LoopMe
  

• Enter a text describing your purpose with collecting the data / or click the button SHOW EXAMPLE TEXTS and select one of the suggested texts.
  
  
  
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• Click SAVE

Invite others to your group

You can intvite others to your group in two different ways; by giving them an open code, or by inviting them by email.

Using an open code

• Click the Members Tab and then Click the button  Invite member
  
  
• Select Open Codes
  
  
• For the role that you want to invite - click Create open code
  
  
• The system will generate a code for you that you give to your students
  (This code is valid as long as you don't disable the code).
  

Your students enter the group by starting their browser (Safari, Firefox or Chrome),
and go to www.loopme.se

• They click the button GET STARTED 
  
  
• They click the button REGISTER A LOOPME ACCOUNT
  
  
• They enter name, email, password - and your open code - then click REGISTER
  

Invite by email

• Click the Members Tab and then Click the button Invite member
  
  
  
• Select Send invitations
  
  
• For the role that you want to invite - click Invite by email
  
• Enter the email address(es) and click Add e-mails. When you've entered all the email addresses, click Invite
  
  
  
  
• Your students enter the group by opening the email invitation in their Mailboxes and click the link within the email.
• They enter their name and set a password - then click REGISTER