Signing in, and the code from your phone

Mastery Board holds children's school records, so every account signs in twice over: your password, and then a 6-digit code from an app on your phone. The code changes every 30 seconds, so someone who learns your password still can't get in.

Your district decides whether teachers must use the code. If yours leaves it to you, Mastery Board goes straight in after your password — and you can still set the code up from Your profile. School and district administrators always use it.

With your school's Microsoft account

If your district gives you a Microsoft work or school account, you can use it instead of your password: choose Sign in with Microsoft and pick that account. The 6-digit code still comes next, if your district uses it. The account has to have the same email address your invitation was sent to, and when you accept an invitation, Sign in with Microsoft is there too, instead of choosing a password.

If Microsoft says an admin has to approve Mastery Board, your district's technology team does that once, for everyone. Until then, sign in with your email and password.

Setting it up, once

1. Sign in with your email address and password. Mastery Board then shows Set up two-step sign-in.
2. On your phone, install Microsoft Authenticator from the App Store or Google Play, if it isn't there already. Any authenticator app works.
3. In Mastery Board, choose Show the code to scan. Then in the app on your phone, tap +, choose Other account (Google, Facebook, etc.), and point the camera at the code that appears.
4. Type the 6 digits the app shows into Mastery Board, and choose Finish setting up.

Setting up on the same phone you're reading this on? Choose Can't scan it? and copy the key into your app by hand instead.

Every time after that

Your password, then the 6 digits showing in your app. The codes change every 30 seconds — if one is refused, enter the one on screen now rather than the one you started typing.

A new phone, or a lost one

While you still have the old phone, open Your profile and choose Set up a new phone. It asks for a code from the old one, then shows a new code to scan. The old phone stops working as soon as the new one is set up.

If the phone is already gone, ask an administrator at your school to reset your two-step sign-in. You then set it up again the next time you sign in. Administrators ask another administrator at their school or district.

A reset signs you out everywhere and is recorded in the change log, with who did it and when.