Need Help Creating Student Accounts through already existing Google registered school email

Hello!  It is my understanding that Google+ is limited to users 13 and older.    However, students who are 3rd graders are easy to create accounts for - even without an email.  Have you teacher go to her coaches page and click on "Manage Students" then to the right she should see "Add New Students" I would suggest she choose the option to add students without an email.  She will then create the usernames and passwords for each of her students.  When they are old enough to have Google+ accounts - the process is fairly simple for linking those emails to an existing account.  Hope this helps!

Thanks for the info Julianne. I don't believe our student emails are true Google+ emails. There is actually no way for students to receive email. It is merely to allow students access to Google Drive, Google Classroom, and our LMS: Canvas. I don't know if that makes a difference or not...

I know all of our students have gmail accounts - and that their Khan Academy accounts have been easy to create using those accounts.  But Google+ is a feature that is turned off for them- so they are not asked their birthdays, etc.  When they go to Khanacademy.org - they log in with google (not a google+account) and they use their school email and password.  They have access to classroom, gmail, drive, etc. but there are some features of Google+ that they do not have access to.  (Not sure exactly what all those features are..)   I would guess that those accounts in Khan that were already created - will not allow you to try this again - but you could see if your admin could turn off the google+ feature for your student accounts and see if that fixes the issue.  Or you could just have your teacher create student accounts that do not require an email - the only issue here is that, at some point, these accounts have to be approved using a parent's email (and if the teacher uses her email - you run into the same problem all over again.)  The reason this problem exists is because KA is so committed to protecting Student Privacy and also to limiting what under 13 users can participate in/post/display, etc.  Ideally, your students would have an adult at home who could get their user information (from the print out that the teacher provides) and parents could link the account to a parent email.  But I know this is not a reality in many school districts.  I'm sorry- I am not sure if I really helped you all that much.  

We have the same situation at our school.  We just have students join Khan on Google+ button, then add the teacher's email as coach.  Then, if they know it, we ask them to add their parent's email.  However, all accounts are useable at school, even without the parent email.

Hi Pasinas - as E Heald mentioned, the parent <> student linking isn't necessary for basic account usage once you've created their account.  The student needs a parent linked to their account in order to adjust settings but not to use the account and save their progress.  

Are the students blocked from using their accounts somehow?

(For what it's worth, we're looking into improving our registration process to be more user-friendly, and hearing stories like yours is helpful for underscoring its importance)