Copy a Class: Start a New Class Without Rebuilding Your Course

You spend a year building a course: topics, sections, PDFs, practices and hundreds of carefully written questions. Then September arrives with a new group, or you pick up a second class studying the same course. Rebuilding everything from scratch would waste all that work. With Copy class, you start the new class from the one you have already built, in a couple of minutes. This guide explains how it works.

Where to find it

On your Classes page, each class card has a copy icon labelled Copy class. Click it and a dialog opens with a reminder of the most important rule: your material is copied, but students, their work and their scores never are.

Choose where the content goes

• A new class: give it a name, a subject and a grade, and ClassKite creates it with your content already inside.
• An existing class: add the content to another class of yours. Copying into an existing class only ever adds to what is there; it never replaces or deletes anything.

Choose what to copy

Under What to copy, you decide exactly what comes across:

• Topics and sections (on by default): the structure of your course. Everything else is copied into it.
• Materials and examples (on by default): the lesson material in each section.
• Attach the same files (on by default): your PDFs are attached to the new class without being uploaded again, and images are copied across.
• My handwriting and annotations (off by default): your own notes on the material, if you want to reuse them. Students' handwriting is never copied.
• Practices and questions (on by default): every practice, with its questions ready to run.
• Also copy what is shared with students (off by default): leave this off and nothing in the new class is visible to students until you share it, so you can prepare at your own pace.

Before you confirm, a This will create panel shows how much will be copied, so there are no surprises.

What is never copied

A copied class is a fresh start for a new group of students. ClassKite never copies:

• the students in the class, or their work;
• sessions, scores, attempts and progress;
• help requests;
• which practices were open for self-practice.

A new class also gets its own join code, so students from the old class will not end up in it by mistake. Once you are ready, add your new students with the class code or by importing a list.

Ideas for using it

• A new school year: copy last year's class, share the first topic and you are ready for the first lesson.
• Parallel classes: teach two groups the same course from the same content, while keeping their students and results separate.
• Reusing your annotations: include your handwriting to bring the worked examples you annotated last year into the new class.

Create a free teacher account and build a class you can reuse for years.

Frequently asked questions

Can I copy a class to a colleague?

Not at the moment. Copy class works between classes you own.

Does copying affect the original class?

No. The original class, its students and its results are left exactly as they were.

Which plan do I need?

Copy class is available on every plan. On Teacher Basic, a class can hold one topic, so copying a class with more than one topic, or copying into a class that already has one, asks you to upgrade first. ClassKite Plus and the School plan allow unlimited topics.

Related reading: classroom management, annotate once, reuse next year and building a reusable question bank.