Classla Docs
Every page here answers one question a teacher asks, in four tabs: one for every teacher, one for computer science, one for math and one for science. Buttons and settings are named as they appear in the product, and each page has a section called What it does not do, so you can plan around the limits. If what you need is not here, write to Camden.
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Writing an Assignment
- BlocksEvery block type, the settings on each, and the editing tools around them.
- PDF AssignmentsA handout or slide deck with questions placed on its pages, answered in order as students read.
- Video AssignmentsA YouTube or uploaded video that stops at each question until the student answers it.
- Diagram AssignmentsA picture with questions pinned to its parts: students name a part, answer about it, or find it on the diagram.
- Flashcard SetsTerms and definitions students study with flip cards and games. Ungraded unless you give it points; you see the hardest cards.
- Assignment SettingsDue dates, timers, resubmissions, what students see after they submit, and course defaults.
- Editing TogetherCo-edit an assignment with a colleague, live, and a student's answers in step on every device.
- Templates and CurriculumsOfficial templates, your organization's, review sets, and what happens when a template changes.
Running the Lesson
- The Four ModesThe same assignment as a page, one question at a time, a live game, or a locked-down test.
- Partner WorkGroups that share one set of answers, graded once, with a private note for each student.
- Student MessagingPrivate messages with one student, about an assignment or the course, turned on where you want them.
- Sections and ExceptionsSeveral periods in one course, and publishing or due dates that reach one student.
- AttendanceA code on the projector, a ledger that fills itself in, and an export.
- Course FilesReadings and handouts in a Files tab, shared with a section or put in an assignment.
- Google ClassroomPost each assignment to a Classroom class with its due date and a link back.
- Canvas and MoodleOpen Classla from your LMS course and send grades to its gradebook.
After They Hand It In
- GradingThe roster, autograded points and your judgment in one score, rubrics, grade categories, and the gradebook.
- Course AnalyticsWho needs attention this week, the question the class is stuck on, how long the work takes, who has gone quiet.
- Integrity EvidenceThe paste trail, the edit timeline, similarity, and writing down what you decided.
AI
- The AssistantAn assistant that reads your course and drafts into your editor, unpublished.
- Connect Your Own ClaudePoint the Claude you already use at your classes, with three permissions you choose.
- Connect Your Own ChatGPTAdd Classla to the ChatGPT you already use, with the same three permissions.
- Connect Your Own GeminiAdd Classla to the Gemini you already use, with the same three permissions.
Computer Science
- CS in ClasslaThe CS demo class, CSAwesome, the AP CSA review library, code-only blocks, and live coding rounds.
- Coding BlocksStarter files, a model solution and autograder tests, in six languages.
- The Coding MachineWhat is installed, files, the terminal, graphics, restarting, and the limits.
- The Student WorkspaceA coding space in every CS course where students experiment outside an assignment.
- Grading CodeTest runs and which one counts, rerunning the autograder, history, pastes and similarity.
Math
Science
How to Read These
Each page opens with the answer in one paragraph. If that is all you needed, stop there. The rest is the how-to, in the order you would do it, using the labels you will see on screen, so you can follow along in a second tab rather than translating.
The pages under Computer science, Math and Science hold everything that only matters in that kind of class, and link back to the pages above for everything shared. If you teach none of them, you can skip all three.
Every page describes what the product does today, not what is planned. Where the answer is "not that", the page says so, so you do not find out during fourth period.
Still Missing Something
Camden builds Classla and answers his own email. A bug is usually gone the same week, and a language, a block type, a grading step or an integration you need is usually days rather than quarters. Write to camden@classla.org, or send a Feature request from Report a problem in the app's header.