Considerations and Best Practices
Classwize

We recommend sharing Classwize and the learning resources for any new staff member on your team that will be using Classwize with students.

Here is an email template for you to customize and use with your staff.

Hello [name],

Our school district adopted and utilizes the Classwize Classroom Management solution as a tool to support you with your learners while they are using their devices in your classroom.

Classwize provides:

• visibility to student online activity and access to screenshot history reports

• focus sessions to keep students focused on the sites you want them accessing for learning

• blocking sites, categories and applications

• features such as messaging, opening sites, closing tabs and more

To get started, click here for an overview of Classwize, then head to the Linewize Learning Resources site to access more on-demand video content and other great resources to support the implementation of Classwize in your classroom.

To access Classwize:
[This will be unique to your district] 

This article outlines the actions that IT support can take to ensure that your Linewize Classwize tool is ready for the new year. This is a reference guide only. Some checklist items may not apply to your school.

Classwize Start of Year Maintenance Checklist

If you’re uncertain about accomplishing any items on this checklist or don’t know if they need to be done at your school, please speak to Linewize Support for more information and assistance.

Classwize has a number of powerful features designed to make it easier for teachers to manage their classes. Here are some considerations when configuring Classwize for your district.

Allow Creation: Allowing teachers and other staff members to create ad-hoc local classrooms gives them the flexibility to group students outside of their pre-configured classes. Reasons may include: make-up exam groups, differentiated learning groups and more.

Reporting: Reporting allows teachers to have access to the student journey data they will need to support and guide their students when making choices online. Teachers can create Screenshot History Reports and Student Journey Reports to help them facilitate learning in their classrooms.

Chat and Announcement: Teachers can send simple messages via announcement or have two-way conversations via chat with students. This allows teachers to discreetly re-direct students and give students a comfortable place to ask questions they normally may not ask in front of their peers. 

Focus: When teachers want their students to center their attention on very specific sites, but also eliminate the opportunity for students to open other sites that would cause distraction, they can use the Focus feature. The Focus feature opens the sites the teacher lists for use and blocks the students from accessing all other sites. It creates a great, focused container for learning.

Rules: Classwize Rules lets students in class access sites that are normally blocked by the school’s internet filtering policies, and to stop students from accessing sites that are normally allowed.   

The other Classwize features can be found described here.

Having the Linewize Filter allows teachers to use Rules to override filtering rules that are in the unlocked position in the filter. This eases up on requests to the IT teams to allow sites that are typically blocked for students for one or more teachers. Ex. District blocks Cool Math Games for all students in the filter, but leaves the rule in the unlocked position. This gives teachers the ability to allow Cool Math Games in their classroom while using Classwize without having to request access from the IT team.

For your users to see the full benefits of using Classwize, we recommend your users watch the On Demand Classwize training video in its entirety. The video shares specific use-case scenarios that shares insights with the teachers on how to use the tools and features in their own classrooms with their students. 

After viewing the video, it is recommended users have access to the Linewize Learning Resources site for continuing support of the solution and its functionality.

Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to discuss usage data and ongoing engagement of Classwize.

Things to consider for ongoing engagement:

• Identify specific features that are underutilized and increase adoption by highlighting specific features to encourage use by emphasizing the benefits

• Offer ongoing training opportunities and resources

• Address challenges and barriers that may be preventing teachers from using Classwize

• Identify and collaborate with early adopters/tech savvy teacher who have successfully integrated the solution