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Should I give my telephone number and e-mail address from school or from home?

Please provide the contact co-ordinates where it is easiest to get in touch with you. We will send you occasional information by e-mail about the Census at School project and other learning resources.

My school’s name is misspelled. / There’s a mistake in the name of the municipality or in the postal code. What should I do?

Spelling errors will not prevent you from registering, but if you wish, you can contact us to advise us of the correction. However, if the name of your school or municipality, or the school’s postal code, has recently changed, please … Continue reading

My school did not appear in the list after I entered the first three characters of my postal code. What should I do?

Make sure you are entering the postal code of your school and not of your home address. If your school is new, please enter full contact co-ordinates under Register your school.

I registered last year. Do I have to register again?

Yes.  For now, we do not have the teacher database from previous years.

I am a parent who is home-schooling my child. How can I participate in this project?

Get in touch with your local association of home-schooling families. We suggest that one contact person be responsible for registering your association. On the Teachers page, at First time user, the contact person enters your association’s postal code, then its … Continue reading

How can I be sure that my students’ privacy and confidentiality will be respected?

We pride ourselves on keeping all collected data confidential. Please read our privacy statement.

We can’t enable JavaScript on our computers. What do we do?

Ask students to complete the online survey at home as homework. Or consider doing the class survey by hand without contributing to the national data.

How do I enable JavaScript on our Web browser?

Google Chrome (15.0) Click the spanner icon on the browser toolbar. Select Options. Click the Under the Hood tab. Click Content Settings in the ‘Privacy section.’ Select Allow all sites to run JavaScript in the ‘JavaScript’ section. Mozilla Firefox (8.0) … Continue reading

We have very few computers in our school. Can we still participate?

You might consider asking students to complete the online survey at home as homework. Or you could do the survey by hand without contributing to the national data. Go to Survey questions on the left sidebar and print out the … Continue reading

My principal wants to get the whole school involved. How do we do that?

The project is designed so that individual teachers can register their classes and access their results. For a school-wide activity, a project manager could be appointed to help individual teachers set up and conduct their own class surveys. The teachers … Continue reading