Help for Teachers

First create an account at /teacher/signup (or /accountif you're already a parent). That only creates your login — it doesn't grant teaching access by itself.

Teacher access is granted manually by the platform owner, not self-serve: they set up (or add you to) a teaching organization and give you the "Teacher" role at /admin/orgs. This is deliberate, not a missing feature — classes hold real children's data and homework, so only the platform owner can grant access to create and run one, to keep that data safe. Once you've been granted access, sign in and go to /teacher— if you see "You're not part of any teaching organization yet," the grant hasn't happened yet; ask the platform owner.

If the platform owner has granted you the Teacher role in more than one organization, the "Create a class" form on /teachershows an organization dropdown so you choose which one the new class is created under. If you're only in one organization, that choice is skipped automatically.

Open the class from /teacher, and under "Learners" use the "Invite a learner" form: enter the parent'semail address and the learner's display name — not the child's own login, since children don't have one.

The invite doesn't enroll the learner immediately. The parent has to sign in at /accountand accept it before the learner shows up as "active" on your roster. If the parent doesn't have an account yet under that email, they'll need to create one first — the invite waits for them either way.

A sessionis something you schedule and run — it has a title, one or more activities, an optional date/time and duration, and optional notes. Think of it as your class session entry: what you're covering and when.

Homework is what you assign learners to do on their own, with a due date. You can assign it to the whole class or to one specific learner, optionally link it to a session, and add instructions. It shows up for parents on /accountas a "Do this homework" link under their child's enrolled class.

If your class follows a concept calendar (a pre-built weekly curriculum track, e.g. "Vocab Bee" or "Foundations"), the "Schedule this week's session + homework" button on the class page does both steps at once from the current week's concept, then advances the class to the next week.

Yes. Subject (spelling, SAT English, or science) and track (general or competitive) are chosen per class when you create it, not per teacher — you can create as many classes as you need across different subjects and tracks, all under the organization(s) you have Teacher access to. Each class you create shows up in "Your classes" on /teacher.

Pick the band that covers most of your learners' grades — each band spans two grades (e.g. "Trailblazer" = grades 3-4), so a mixed 3rd/4th grade class fits one band. If your class spans grades in two different bands (say, 2nd and 4th graders together), pick whichever band fits the majority of your learners.

National Prep is the one exception — it's shown under every band, since it's for a learner ready to compete at the national level regardless of grade, not tied to one specific band.

It's not that week 4 teaches you what you need for week 5 — each week rotates through a fixed set of concept types (things like root words and prefixes, vocabulary, spelling patterns, and themed units) so that no single kind of learning gets neglected over the year. Think of it as a rotation, not a staircase: missing one week's concept type doesn't block the next one.

That also means you can safely jump a class to a specific week (see "Change curriculum track or jump to a different week" on the class page) without worrying that you're skipping a prerequisite — you're just choosing where in the rotation to start.

Not yet in a structured way — today a class follows one track's week-by-week rotation from whatever week you start it on. If you want to skip around, use "Change curriculum track or jump to a different week" to move to any week directly. Ask the AI assistant if you're not sure what a given week covers before jumping.

Once most of your learners are comfortably passing their weekly quizzes at the current level — check the History tab for scores. There's no automatic "ready to advance" recommendation yet, so this is your own judgment call based on how your class is actually doing, not something the platform decides for you.

When a learner has practiced a concept enough, they can attempt a "mastery demonstration" — writing sentences using the words involved. Anything awaiting your review appears in the "Mastery demonstrations to review" section near the top of /teacher, showing the learner's name, the concept, their adaptive-quiz score, and each word with the sentence they wrote for it.

Add an optional note, then press Approve or Reject. This review only shows up for teachers with the "roster.manage" permission on the learner's organization — the same permission that lets you manage that class's roster in the first place.