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Product updates, teaching tips, and news.
The ClassKite Gradebook: Grades That Add Themselves Up
Every practice your class does is already marked. The Gradebook adds those marks up into one grade per student, by rules anyone can read, and turns them into report cards.
One Grading Policy for the Whole School
How school admins set one written grading policy in ClassKite, preview whose grades would change, apply it to every class together, and keep a record of each change.
Quiz Conditions: Discourage AI Shortcuts in Class Quizzes, Honestly
SBQ mode now runs under quiz conditions: copying is turned off, students are told, and you see which answers came after a student left the page. Here's what it does, and what no website can do.
Lock iPads to a Quiz with Safe Exam Browser
Require Safe Exam Browser in an SBQ quiz and each iPad is locked to the quiz until you end the session. Setup, what students see, the exit code and exemptions.
Active, Away, Offline, Left: Who's Really in Your Live Session
Every card on the Live Student Grid now shows Active, Away, Offline or Left, with what the device observed. Plus the optional Require full screen setting.
Teacher and Student Layers: Private Feedback on Every Page
How ClassKite keeps your board and every student's work on separate layers, and how to open a student's layer to leave private feedback right beside their working.
Self-Practice and Revision: Keep Learning Going After the Lesson
Reopen the practice from lessons you've already taught so students can revise and practise at home, with instant feedback, retakes and a report for every session.
Adding Students to Your Class: Join Codes and Class List Imports
Two simple ways to get students into your class: share your class code, or import a class list and let ClassKite create the accounts for you.
Free Navigation, Shuffle and SBQ Mode: Choosing How a Live Practice Runs
What Free navigation, Shuffle and SBQ mode do in a ClassKite live practice, and which combination to choose for a warm-up, a walkthrough or an end-of-topic check.
A Detailed Report for Every Practice Session, Live or at Home
Every live practice and self-practice session in ClassKite produces its own report: class totals, right first time, solved, a row for every student and easy exports.
Copy a Class: Start a New Class Without Rebuilding Your Course
Use Copy class to start a new class from one you've already built. Topics, materials and practices come across; students and their results never do.
The complete ClassKite guide for teachers: from your first class to live insight
The ClassKite Teacher's Guide in full: the teaching cycle, step by step, with real screens. Create your class and bring students in, then the four sections that make up one lesson — importing question banks, the Smart Board process, live session progress, and reports. Identical to the printable PDF and the tutorial videos.