Add a Student to the System

Reminder: An ELM student is a student created in the ELM system only as opposed to an election worker, who is maintained in the voter registration database.
  1. On the main menu, click Students to display a list of the student currently known to the ELM System.
  2. On the list of students, click .
  3. On the Create New Student page, enter their first and last names in the fields provided. (These fields are required to create a student account.)
  4. Enter the student's email address, if you have it. You can enter it later if you don't have it now.
  5. If you want to assign the user a login user name and password, enter these items in the fields provided. You can come back later and enter the login credentials, if you wish.
Note: A temporary user name is automatically assigned when you save a new record without specifying a user name, but you should change the temporary user name before releasing it to the student.
Note: ELM user names must be unique.
  1. The other fields are for informational purposes only and can be used or not, as your county's procedures require.
  2. Click Save.
  1. On the main menu, click Dashboard.
  2. In the lower-right pane (labeled Add New Student) click Add Student.
  3. Enter their first and last names and their email address in the fields provided.
  4. Click Submit.
  5. To add more information to the new record—such as the students login credentials—click View Students to display the list of students. Then click the student name to display the Edit Student page where you can enter the additional information. The fields other than First Name and Last Name are for informational purposes only and can be used or not, as your county's procedures require.
  6. Click Save.
Note: ELM user names must be unique.