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Absolutely! And you'll be in good company - Kerpoof is used in thousands of classrooms, school computer labs, and libraries. We provide a wealth of free resources for educators here on the Kerpoof Scholastics pages, including lesson plans, classroom ideas, and an e-newsletter. You can always get here from the Kerpoof homepage by clicking the "For Teachers" button (in the shape of an apple, or course!) or by typing www.kerpoof.com/teach into your browser's url window.

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No. For school-related use, your students can enter your e-mail address instead.

For teachers, Kerpoof provides a much more convenient way to set up and administer student accounts - one that will not ask for e-mail addresses from students. The first step is to sign up for a Teacher Account. This will allow you to easily register an entire class of students (or multiple classes) and assign them usernames and passwords. A Teacher Account will also give you access to the Teacher Tools page, allowing you to limit what your students do on Kerpoof, give them access to optional features, reset passwords, add or disable user accounts, and much more. Click here to learn more or register for your own Kerpoof Teacher Account.

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Kerpoof asks for a parent's e-mail address as part of the signup process for new users. This allows us to notify parents of children who have signed up outside school, introduce them to Kerpoof, and let them know how their children are using the site. Parents (or teachers) are also given the ability to reset forgotten passwords or disable a child's account. Rather than having your students use your e-mail address instead of a parent's, we highly recomment that you make a Kerpoof Teacher Account. You'll be able to register entire classes of students, limit what they do on Kerpoof, give them access to optional features, reset passwords, disable or add users, and much more. Click here to learn more or register for your own Kerpoof Teacher Account.

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It's free. Really! We are proud to make Kerpoof free for all schools and educational institutions. Educators who want to allow use of certain advanced features (group message board, chat, and buddy draw) can visit our Teacher Accounts Page for information on how to get access.

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No! Kerpoof works in a web browser, so there's no software to download. It does require Flash Player 10, which will have already been installed on most browsers. If you don’t have the latest version of Flash, you can download it for free from Adobe. Though Kerpoof can be used on any web browser, we recommend Internet Explorer version 7 or Mozilla Firefox. Apple Safari, older versions of IE, etc. will also work, but we test these less extensively. If you have any technical questions, please send an e-mail to educators@kerpoof.com.

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A lot! Your whole classroom (or even your whole school) can use Kerpoof at the same time without affecting the speed of our servers. Image transfers may proceed slowly at first if the bandwidth into your classroom is limited, but the site will run much more quickly after all the images have loaded once. Whole computer labs frequently use Kerpoof simultaneously, without issue. Feel free to contact us at educators@kerpoof.com if you have any technical issues with Kerpoof. We are happy to provide your IT personnel with support and ideas for reducing bandwidth needs.

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Ultimately, this is up to you and your school, school district or board of education to decide. We provide an Educational Standards page that cross-references Kerpoof activities with a variety of state and national standards, and may be of use to you in addressing this question. Or browse through our Kerpoof-based Lesson Plans (listed by subject) for more specific examples.

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Students do not have to create an account to use Kerpoof, but the site will be a more useful tool if they do. Free accounts can be created by students or teachers without providing any personal information aside from an e-mail address. With an account, the students can save, edit, share, and e-mail their work. Anyone can use Kerpoof - and create pictures, stories, and movies - as a guest only, but all their work will be lost when they navigate away from the site.

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Yes. You are granted permission by Disney/Kerpoof to display our materials for your own personal use, so long as you are in compliance with our Terms of Use and Site Etiquette policies, aren't profiting by the materials, and give Disney/Kerpoof appropriate acknowledgement by indicating that all materials are "Used With the Permission of Disney/Kerpoof." If you follow these rules, you may post Kerpoof creations or screencaps on your personal (or school) website or blog.

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For questions specific to education, please e-mail educators@kerpoof.com. For more general questions about the site, please e-mail contact.us@kerpoof.com, or use our online comment form.

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There are several places to learn more about Kerpoof, starting with the About Kerpoof page. We also have a For Parents page. The media and blogosphere have also discovered Kerpoof - try a basic Google search for reviews and teacher testimonials. For any specific questions, please send an email to educators@kerpoof.com. We would love to hear from you.