Create Parties & Invite Players

A Party (Cohort) is the group of students who learn together — one class period, one section, one group. You create one on a House (course) you run, and RPGLMS generates a 6-character join code that students use to enroll. Creating parties and enrolling students is free and unlimited on every tier.

You can create a Party on a House you own, and on a House you collaborate on: each collaborator runs their own Parties there. See Invite collaborators.

Create a party

1. Open the course's Switch Section dialog

   Open a House you run. In the app bar, the section button (a crown, or the current section’s icon) opens Switch Section. It lists All Sections, then each of the course’s Parties with its join code and an edit and delete menu, and a Create Party button at the bottom. The owner sees every Party in the course; a collaborator sees the ones they run. A student never gets this button, because a join code is a credential.

   You can also add one from My Houses: open the course’s menu and choose Add Section.

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2. Tap Create Party and name it

   The Create Party sheet asks for a Party Name (hint: “e.g., Period 1 - Intro to Biology”) and a Party Icon. Leave the Active toggle on so the party accepts new players.

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3. Save — the join code is generated for you

   Save the party. The server creates it, generates the 6-character join code (you don’t type it), and records you as the party’s Gamemaster. The new party appears with its join code.

   If this is the course’s first party you’ll have met the code already — creating a course hands it to you at the end of the create flow.

Share the join code

1. Open Party Management and expand the party

   The Switch Section dialog shows each code, and the share actions live on the Party Management screen. From the navigation drawer’s campaign section, open its menu and choose Party Management. Expand a party there and, below its Roster, a Join Code: row (bold monospace) carries three actions: copy the code, copy a join link, and email it.

   

2. Browse the gradebook roster

   The same screen also shows the class roster — a per-student tile for each member with a path progress row underneath. The party’s member count lives here too. For records across the whole House, use Party Records: the gradebook icon in the course page’s title row.

   

3. Copy the code, copy a link, or email invites

   • Copy join code copies the 6 characters.
   • Copy join link copies https://app.rpglms.com/join/<code> — students who open it sign in (if needed) and join automatically.
   • Email invites opens the invite dialog.
4. Send email invites (optional)

   The dialog (“Invite to <party name>”) offers Single, Bulk, and CSV modes. Enter addresses and tap Send Invite / Send N Invites. A “pending invite(s)” line appears under the Join Code row. (Party invites are always student invites — there’s no role selector for a party.)

Manage members

Once students join, each member row has a Member actions menu with Make GM (transfers ownership — you become a student, after a confirm) and Remove from Party (their progress is retained; they can re-join with the code).