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Set up your workspace

A workspace is your organisation on Peridot: its people, its courses and the labs they use. You create it once. Setup saves after every step, so you can stop at any point, and anyone you invite as an admin can pick up where you left off.

Choose what you’re setting up

The first question is what kind of organisation this is. Every workspace has the same parts, but the setup is different, and you can change the labels later.

Create a workspace›What are you setting up?

What are you setting up?

Every workspace has the same parts: people, courses and the labs Peridot builds.

University or college About 10 min

Faculties, departments, levels and sessions. Many courses, each with its own labs, taught again every year.

Lagoon City University › Faculty of Science › Computer Science › CSC 111 · 100 Level

Company or team About 4 min

Upload the course you want people trained on and invite them. Teams are optional. Most companies start with one course.

Harbourline Freight › Operations › Onboarding: Secure Ops

The first setup step. A university gets faculties, departments, levels and sessions; a company starts with one course.

A university, step by step

Institution. The name students and staff see when they sign in, and your email domain (for example lcu.edu.ng). If the domain isn’t on Peridot yet, you become its first admin.
Sign-in. Confirm how people sign in: with an email link to their institution address, and, for students, with a join code and their matric number.
Faculties and departments. Departments own courses. Add them by hand or import a spreadsheet. You can rename the levels, for example College and School.
Academic calendar. Sessions and semesters with their dates, and the levels that group students by year of study. Offerings run inside a session and semester.
Invite admins. Ask colleagues to help. They get an email invite.

A company, step by step

Company. Your company name and email domain.
Sign-in. Confirm that people sign in with an email link to their work address.
Upload a course. The course you want people trained on.
Invite employees. By email, or with a file. See Imports.

Review before you go live

Someone at Peridot checks every new workspace, usually within one working day. Until then, admins who sign in see “We’re reviewing your workspace” instead of the portal, and Peridot emails you as soon as it’s ready.

The states a new workspace can be in. Most go straight from pending to approved.