Problem in creating subscriptions for streaming

PowerdotMath · ‎09-14-2021

I have created a series of educational music videos for 2nd and 3rd grade students, and want to sell a subscription for teachers and students to stream them. Ideally, I'd like for a teacher to be able to purchase a "Master Subscription" that would allow each student in their class to be able to log in with a password that their teacher creates. I have done this using "memberships," but one big problem I have is that each membership requires a separte email address for every member. Because of this, it is very tedious for a teacher to set up 30 or so student accounts, because they have to log in to each student's email seperately to create each password.

Does anyone know a better way to do this? If this isn't really possible in Weebly, does anyone know a web host or service that can do what I'm looking for? Thank you very much.

Bernadette3 · ‎09-16-2021

Hi @PowerdotMath I believe the only option would be having all of the students use the teacher's login credentials. I'm not sure if it would work for your scenario, though.

PowerdotMath · ‎09-17-2021

Thanks for your response. If I could get 30 users to be able to log in using the same password at (possibly) the same time, I could probably sell that as long as it were stable. A couple years ago I tried doing this exact thing with 1 class of students as an experiment. It seemed like as long as the kids logged in (using the same member ID) one at a time, it worked. However, when multiple students tried to log in with the same member ID at the exact same time, they would get a message that they had the wrong password. Far worse, the login system would then refuse to accept the correct password after that, even if it was only one person trying to log in. It seemed to have locked the password out when it detected multiple people trying to use it at the same time. At that point the only solution was to reset the password and have the kids stagger their login times. As I said, I tried this experiment a couple years ago, so maybe the system has been changed, and that wouldn’t happen anymore. Do you happen to know if that issue has ever been looked at, or fixed? Thank you so much.

Bernadette3 · ‎09-18-2021

Hmm.. what about just using a site password instead of assign the member login? The password protected pages feature works similar to the members login option, but you only need to enter a password on restricted pages.

You could also keep the pages hidden from navigation and then supply a page to the teacher or students with a list of hyperlink text of the pages they do have access to.