Felt for Educators Step 1. Create a Workspace for your class Step 2. Fill out this form to verify your educational license Step 3. Once verified, invite your students to Felt Organize your class Workspace and Projects Data for assignments Managing Maps Permissions FAQ

Felt for Educators

Maps are an important way to explore the world around us, revealing spatial relationship that would not otherwise be obvious. Creating & analyzing maps are important skills for all people to learn. For these reasons, Felt is free for classroom use. Below are three steps you need to complete to get your classroom using Felt.

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New in Felt: Workspaces Felt’s Workspaces allow educators to manage their classrooms and keep maps in one organized place for each class they teach. Create one Workspace per class you teach. Within each Workspace you can create Projects, which keep maps separate for different units or even managing different group assignments.

Step 1. Create a Workspace for your class

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New to Felt?

Sign up for Felt with your edu email and create a Workspace by clicking the Create a new workspace button during the sign up

Name your team after your class name.

Skip the email invite section for now and click Create Workspace

Already have an account?

Navigate to the Felt home, click on your current workspace, and select Create workspace

Name the workspace after your class.

Skip the email invite section for now and click Create Workspace

Step 2. Fill out this form to verify your educational license

The form is here. Our verification process takes less than two weeks (it is often faster).

You will receive an email confirmation from us when you are verified.

Step 3. Once verified, invite your students to Felt

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Proceed with this step only if you’ve gotten a confirmation from us instructing you to invite your students. Thanks for your patience!

Navigate to the Felt home page of your class workspace

Click on your class workspace and select Invite and manage members

Add your students’ emails and click on the pink Invite button. This will send Felt invites to students via email. Students should be invited as editors so they can create their own maps for the class.

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Tip: You can copy and paste a comma-separated list of their edu emails to add them all at once and send the invitation at the same time.

Organize your class

Workspace and Projects

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Create one Workspace for each class so maps remain separate between different classes

Always create the Workspace with your edu address so you can be verified as the Workspace Admin.

Add students as editors so they can create maps within the classroom workspace.

If you are teaching the class with another teacher or have TAs that need to manage the class account, add them as Admin so they have full permissions.

Data for assignments

Have you heard of our “Add to Felt” QGIS plugin? Consider using Felt with QGIS in your classroom! For more about the plugin: 🔌Using The “Add To Felt” QGIS Plugin

Working with the 📚Team Library: you can publish data to the classroom Workspace library so all students can access those layers. Use the library to publish datasets that need to be used by students for various assignments. These layers are accessible from every map in the Workspace via the Layer Library

Managing Maps

Students can submit their map via a single link! Sharing settings are accessible by clicking the pink Share button on the top-right corner of any map:

Set up your classroom on Felt