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Classes and analytics
Hand out anonymous links, see what learners do with them, and know each learner by a handle, not a name.
A class is a list of labels, not a list of people.
What a class is
A class is a list of handles you hand out — the empty state calls them anonymous student tokens you can hand out like raffle cards. Each learner gets their own personal link, and what they do arrives under their handle.
A class knows each learner by a handle, and has no field for a name, an email address or a date of birth. The handle is a label, and the connection between a label and a child stays with you, on paper, in the room.
A class is optional. Every ladder, delivery, question and lab works by link alone. Having a class does not unlock the teaching; it unlocks the analytics. Without one you still get totals, just not per learner.
Two things a class can belong to
In the sidebar, Classes holds My classes and Analytics. Both are on the Quest and Academy plans; below those the group is not there at all.
A class belongs either to you as an individual, or to an organisation you are a member of. Which one changes where student IDs come from, who else can see the learners and how you are billed. Individuals, tutoring businesses, schools and universities covers the difference.
The order things happen in
Choose the ID pattern
Before the class exists. It is the shape your school's student IDs take, and it cannot be changed casually afterwards.
Create the class
Name it, paste the IDs or ask for random ones, and it exists.
Create personal links
One per learner, with a purpose and an expiry. These are what you hand out.
They arrive and set a password
The first time they open their link. After that the password is how they prove it is them.
Read the analytics
Attempts, accuracy, time, who needs attention — by handle, never by name.
Everything in this section
Classes
- Individuals, tutoring businesses, schools and universitiesHow an organisation changes what a class is.
- Student identityWhat is stored, and what never is.
- Student ID patternsThe shape a handle takes, and who defines it.
- Creating a classEvery field, and the errors you will meet.
- Personal linksPurpose, expiry, and sending one to each learner.
- How a student joinsOpening the link, setting a password, proving it is them.
- The class rosterThe nine columns and what each tells you.
- Reset, new link, rotate and stopFour actions people confuse.
- Slips, handles and the class boardPrinting, copying and the tracked whiteboard.
- Sending work to a classOne link per learner from Workshop and Virtual Lab.
- The class exam dateHow it bends spaced review.
- Classes linked to an LMSRoster sync, grades and names that are never stored.
- Deleting a classWhat goes with it, and why there is no archive.
Analytics
- The Analytics areaSix tabs, and what the overview shows.
- Surfaces, date range and filtersNarrowing every report the same way.
- How analytics is countedThe four rules, and what is left out.
- Needs attentionEvery signal and what to do about it.
- Students and the student recordOne learner, across every class.
- Class reports and compareTrouble spots, completion and what the class knows.
- Delivery reportsScore distribution and the item that broke.
- Content, ladder and question reportsWhat was used, and how each performed.
- ActivityTime on boards, in objects and in labs.
- Exporting analyticsEvery CSV mirrors its view.