Reference • Teachers • School admins

Which features are gated by plan, credits, or school settings

When a button is missing, the reason is often plan access, credits, or school-managed visibility. This page helps you separate product behavior from entitlement behavior.

What this page covers

Explain what affects feature visibility so users can tell the difference between missing access and a broken workflow.

Expected outcome

You can identify whether a missing workflow is caused by plan access, billing visibility, credits, or school-managed restrictions.

For

Teachers • School admins

Applies to

Self-serve accounts • Institution-managed accounts

Last verified: 2026-03-25

Different workflows disappear for different reasons. Use this reference before you treat a missing option as a product bug.

Surface or workflow

What affects visibility or use

Where to confirm

LMS connection and publishing

  • Plan access
  • Institution-managed LMS restrictions

Billing visibility, Connect LMS, or institution rules

Analytics generation and refresh

  • Feature access
  • Credits
  • Course readiness

Analytics page and billing/credits context

Billing UI

  • Self-serve vs institution-managed account

Profile and billing area visibility

Shared credit usage

  • Institution-managed pooled credits

Institution admin center or billing docs

A teacher on self-serve billing and a teacher inside a school-managed rollout can see different controls even when both can still grade work successfully.

Account context

What you might see

What to check next

Self-serve teacher

Billing, payment methods, and plan controls are visible directly on the account.

Use Billing and Credits Usage first when a feature or balance question comes up.

Institution-managed teacher

Billing can be hidden, LMS providers can be restricted, and shared credits may replace personal balances.

Check institution rules, pooled credit context, or ask the school admin before assuming the workflow is missing.

Use a short entitlement check before you retry the workflow itself.

Step by step

  1. If an LMS option is missing, check whether the account has LMS access and whether the school has restricted the provider list.
  2. If analytics is missing, check feature access, credits, and whether the course data is ready.
  3. If Billing is hidden, check whether the account is institution-managed before you assume the page is broken.
  4. If seats or pooled credits are involved, move to the institution admin docs instead of the teacher billing flow.

Common blockers

  • Institution-managed teachers can see fewer controls than self-serve teachers while still having access to core grading workflows.