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A Classroom is the central record in E-Classroom. It ties together the LMS content you are teaching, the students you are teaching it to, and the way their work will be graded. Everything else - sessions, attendance, assignments, quizzes, grades - hangs off a classroom.

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Who Uses This Feature

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Before You Start

You need, in the LMS:
  • An LMS Programme the class belongs to
  • One or more LMS Courses (and their chapters) to teach
  • An LMS Batch the students are enrolled in
  • A grade scheme chosen or created (see Grading)
A classroom links to these records; it does not replace them.

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Creating a Classroom

1

Open a new Classroom

From the administrator views, open the Classroom list and start a new record.
2

Give it a code and link the LMS records

Enter the classroom code (this becomes the class’s address in the portal) and link the programme, courses, chapters, and batch.
3

Name the teaching team

Set the main teacher and add any co-teachers.
4

Choose a grade scheme

Select the weighted scheme that decides how attendance, assignments, and quizzes combine into a grade.
5

Activate

Move the classroom from Draft to Active so it appears for its roster.

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Field Guide - Classroom

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The Classroom Lifecycle

A classroom moves through three states:
  • Draft: the class is being set up and is not yet visible to students.
  • Active: teaching is under way; the class appears for its roster.
  • Archived: the term is over; the class becomes read-only but its records and grades remain.

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Managing the Roster

The roster is the list of students in the class. You can enrol students one by one, or backfill the whole roster from the linked LMS batch so you do not re-enter people who are already in the batch.
1

Open the Roster page

Go to /classroom/{code}/roster.
2

Add students

Search for a student and add them, optionally recording an admission number.
3

Suspend or remove when needed

Suspend a student for a period (or indefinitely) with a reason, lift the suspension later, or remove them from the roster entirely.

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Field Guide - Roster entry

Suspending a student keeps their record and history but pauses their access. Removing a student takes them off the roster. Prefer suspension when the change may be temporary.

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Structuring the Class: Sections and Activities

A classroom is organised into sections (ordered units) that contain activities. An activity is a single piece of work: a lesson, a quiz, or an assignment, each of a given activity type.
1

Add sections

Create sections and order them to shape the flow of the class. You can rename and reorder them at any time.
2

Add activities

Place activities inside a section. You can bootstrap activities directly from the linked course chapters so you do not rebuild content that already exists in the LMS.
3

Reorder as the class evolves

Drag sections and activities into the order you want students to work through them.

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Upstream and Downstream

  • Upstream (must exist first): LMS programme, courses, chapters, and batch; a grade scheme.
  • Downstream (this enables): sessions and attendance, assignments, quizzes, grading, and recordings all attach to the classroom once it is Active.

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Best Practices

  • Set the grade scheme before the class goes Active, so early grades are weighted correctly from the start.
  • Backfill the roster from the batch rather than adding students by hand when the batch enrolment already exists.
  • Bootstrap activities from course chapters to keep the class aligned with the LMS content.
  • Archive a class at the end of term rather than deleting it: archiving preserves grades, attendance, and recordings for reference.