Classes and schedules

A class is a group of students taking a course together, with a teacher, a schedule and a number of seats. A course can run many classes, for example a November and a December workshop. Each class has sessions: the dated meetings, in a room or online.

Administrators and school coordinators add and change classes. Teachers see and run the classes they teach.

Create a class

1. Go to School → Courses, click People → Classes, then Add class. (Or click Add a class to this course on a course.)
2. Choose the Course (1) and the Term (2).
3. Type the Class name (3), for example Saturday Workshop, December, and a short Schedule summary such as Saturdays, 10:00–11:30 AM, Summit Ridge office. Students see the summary in My learning.
4. Choose the Main teacher (4). Tick Co-teachers or Teaching assistants if others help.
5. Type the Seats (5): the most students in this class. Leave it empty for no limit.
6. If you like, tick When it's full, students can join a waitlist (first come, first served) and Students who join with the class code wait for approval.
7. Click Add class.

Teachers must be added first. See Teachers and roles.

The class page

Click a class to open its page. It has the class details, the Class code, its Sessions, its Quizzes and homework with their dates, and its Students.

• The class code (1) is how students join on their own: they go to /learn/join/ and type it. Click Copy link (2) to copy a link that fills in the code for them.
• Untick Students can join with this code (3) to stop new joins. Stops working after and Most students who can join with it limit the code.
• Make a new code (4) replaces the code. The old one stops working.

Under Students, use Add a new student, Import from a spreadsheet or Add students who already have an account. Students waiting for you show Approve and Decline buttons; students on the waitlist show Let in. When a seat opens, the first student on the waitlist moves in by themselves and gets an email.

Add the sessions with a weekly schedule

Add the schedule once: PageShift creates every session and skips your holidays.

1. On the class page, click Add a weekly schedule.
2. Under Every, tick the day or days (1).
3. Set Starts at and Ends at (2).
4. Choose the First day (3) and For how many weeks (4), or a Last day instead.
5. Type any dates to skip in Also skip these dates (5). Holidays from Settings → Classes and attendance are skipped too.
6. Add a Topic, a Meeting link (Google Meet, Zoom or any link) and/or a Room (6) for classes on site.
7. Tick the Materials: lessons from the outline shown on each session's page. Add Notes for students if you like, such as Bring your harness and work gloves.
8. Click Add the sessions.

To add a single meeting, click Add one session instead. Under Who it's for, you can choose one student for a one-on-one session: only that student sees it and joins it.

Change or cancel sessions

Click All sessions on the class page to see Upcoming and Past (1) sessions.

• Click a session to change its time, link or room, take attendance, or add a Recording link (after the class).
• Tick sessions and use Bulk actions: Cancel, Restore (undo cancel), Set the meeting link or room… or Delete.
• Add a session (2) or Add a weekly schedule (3) adds more.

Students get an email when a coming session is canceled or gets a new time, link or room, and a reminder about a day before each session. You can turn these emails off in Settings → Emails.