What's changing and when
First News Digital has been rebuilt for schools. Every teacher and pupil can have their own login, and everything works in a web browser. Your subscription and price stay the same.
Key dates
- Week commencing 19 October: the new First News Digital launches. Log in through My Account to reach it.
- Until Thursday 17 December: you can keep using the previous version. Teachers can also reach the new version with your school's FNEID, using Temporary Log In, with limited features.
- After Thursday 17 December: the previous version and the iOS and Android app stop working, and the FNEID no longer gives access. A personal login is required.
What to do
- The Primary Contact logs in to My Account, or creates one. Set up My Account
- Invite your teachers and staff. Invite colleagues
- Each teacher logs in and bookmarks their homepage. Log in and bookmark
- Add your pupils from the Teacher Dashboard. Add pupils
- Bookmark the Pupil login page on pupil devices. Pupil devices
- Create groups and choose Reading tools. Groups and Reading tools
What stays the same
- The same trusted, age-appropriate journalism.
- Your annual, school-wide subscription price.
- A downloadable, printable PDF of every edition, now in the Teacher Dashboard.
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