For teachers

Four ways to run your class

You have control over your class page. Keep the order it already comes in, or set your own. Here are the four ways teachers do it.

Things that are true whichever way you go

Students never need an account. The class link works on its own. They can make a free account if they want their spot saved across devices, but nothing here depends on it.
Two ways in. Send the class link and they are in, or give them the class code to enter on their account page.
Nothing you do is permanent. Trim, group, regroup, or put everything back, as often as you like. Students see the change on their next visit.
Deleting a group never deletes videos. The videos stay in your class; only the grouping goes.

Keep the default setup

Share a book or course exactly as it comes.

What you do: Create a class and choose what it lines up with: a COD course, the book your school uses, or a general course for classes with no set book.
What students see: Everything in whatever you based it on, in its own order, with your class name on it.
Worth knowing: Your class keeps itself up to date. When new videos are added to that book or course, they turn up in your class too, with nothing for you to do.

Trim the default videos to fit your course

Start from a book or course and cut out whatever your class does not cover.

What you do: On the curate screen, uncheck anything you do not teach. Whole chapters and whole sections toggle at once, so cutting half a course takes a few clicks, not a few hundred.
What students see: The same view, minus what you removed. Chapters and sections you emptied disappear completely, so nobody wonders what is behind them.
Worth knowing: Trimming is reversible at any point, and it only changes your class. No other teacher's is touched, and neither is the original.

Group it your way AND keep the original

Students get both: your groups at the top, the original order still underneath.

What you do: Open Add Groups on the curate screen, name a group the way your class already talks about it, then add videos to it. Make as many as you want and put them in order with the arrows.
What students see: Your groups as cards at the top of the class page, with the original chapters still underneath. Opening a group gives them just those videos, in your order.
Worth knowing: The same video can be in more than one group. Adding a lesson to your exam review does not remove it from the week it is already in.

Only use custom groupings

Turn the original order off so your students only ever see your groups, in the order you put them in.

What you do: Build your groups as in option 3, then tick Show only my groups. It is one checkbox and you can untick it just as easily.
What students see: Only your groups. The original chapter view is gone from the class page and from inside every lesson, where the list down the side becomes your groups instead.
Worth knowing: Anything you have not put in a group becomes unreachable, so the curate screen tells you how many videos that is before you turn it on. It is the one setting worth reading the number on.

Teaching high schoolers?

The site was built for college students, but plenty of the material lines up with high school courses, and high school teachers are welcome. If your students are under 18, turn on My students are under 18 when you set up your class.

With that switch on, your class pages never ask students to sign in or create an account — and accounts can't join the class at all. Your students just use the link. Bookmarks and starred videos still work on each student's own device, and nothing about them is ever sent to us. There is nothing collected, so there is no student data to protect, share, or delete.

About the paperwork: most states don't allow schools to share student information with a website unless the school has a signed data-privacy agreement with it — Illinois, New York, Connecticut, Colorado, Louisiana, and Utah have some of the strictest versions, but rules like these exist in most of the country. High-school classes here are designed so that question never comes up: no accounts means no student information ever reaches us. Our privacy page spells out exactly what the site does and doesn't keep, and if your district still has questions, use the Say Hi page.

Set up your class Free, and it stays free.