Class Management

Class Management lists the classes you teach as tickets, from planning through review and provisioning to ready for class. From here you create a class, resume one that is still being set up, open a class's workspace, and archive classes in bulk. Sidebar: Teaching → Class Management. Path: /class-management.

Who can use it

• Teachers see the classes they own.
• Administrators see every class.
• Students do not see this page; opening the address sends them back to the home page.

Before you start

• To set up a class you need registered student accounts and a published teaching environment (see Teaching Environments). You can also create the environment during class setup.

Step by step

Create a class

1. Click Create class.
2. The five-step Class setup opens: Class & Schedule, Student List, Teaching Environment, Weekly Tasks and Confirm Creation. The address /class-management/new leads to the same place.
3. Saved steps are kept as a draft; the class appears here in Planning and you can come back to it later.

Filter and search

1. Use the status tabs; the number on each is the count:
   • All
   • Planning — still being set up.
   • Building — pending review or provisioning.
   • Needs attention — appears only when some class has machines that failed to build.
   • Ready to teach — the class is active.
2. Type a class name in Search classes.
3. Ended classes are hidden. Tick Show ended (N) to list them; the option appears only when there are ended classes.

Read a class ticket

Each ticket shows:

1. The status: Planning, Pending review, Provisioning, Needs attention, Ready for class or Ended, and the term.
2. The class name. A class that needs attention also shows Some machines failed to build.
3. Class time (weekday and time) with Boots N min early, and Term dates.
4. On the stub, a barcode and a count:
   • For a class in planning, Class setup counts finished setup items out of 3: students added, an environment chosen, at least one week with a topic.
   • For other classes, Machine provisioning counts machines already built out of the total.

Open a class

1. Click a ticket.
2. A class in Planning opens class setup at the next unfinished step.
3. Any other class opens its Class workspace, where you manage students, machines, weekly content, monitoring and checks.

Archive and reclaim classes in bulk

1. Tick the box in the top-right corner of one or more tickets. Ended classes cannot be selected. Shift-click selects a range.
2. The toolbar turns into a batch bar showing N selected, with a select-all box and Archive and reclaim.
3. Click Archive and reclaim. The confirmation lists the classes (the first five names, then "and N more") and the total number of machines.
4. Confirm. Progress shows as Archiving… N of M.
5. When it finishes:
   • Archived N class(es); reclaim has been requested — done.
   • If some machines could not be sent for reclaim, open the class and choose Retry reclamation.
   • If some classes failed to archive, they stay selected so you can try again.

While tickets are selected, clicking a ticket toggles its selection instead of opening it. Clear the selection to go back to normal.

Fields and options

Field	Meaning	Notes
Status	Where the class is in its life cycle	Planning, Pending review, Provisioning, Needs attention, Ready for class, Ended
Class time	Weekly class day and time	With the boot lead time
Term dates	First and last date of the class
Class setup	Setup items done out of 3	Planning classes only
Machine provisioning	Machines built out of the total	All other classes

Limits and behaviour to know

• Archiving stops upcoming schedules, cancels unfinished provisioning and reclaims every machine in the class. It cannot be undone; class and course records are kept.
• A class that has been submitted for provisioning no longer opens the setup wizard; its settings are locked and it opens in the workspace.
• When you return from another page with a success message (for example after pausing class setup), it is shown once as a notification.

Related

• Class setup — create a class step by step
• Class workspace — manage one class
• Teaching Environments — the machine sets a class can use
• Class Review — where administrators approve class provisioning