Classwize

Classwize lets you manage your students' online access. You can send your entire class to a specific website, allow and restrict access to certain sites, message your students, and lock students’ screens. You also have the ability to see students’ screens, open tabs, and internet activity.

In order to utilize Classwize, you must have set up a class in Google Classroom with your students. Classwize syncs classes from Google Classroom and will then display each of these classes on your Classwize Dashboard and allow you to view and manage your students' online access. 

Scheduling your Classwize class allows you to automatically start and stop your class. At the secondary level, this is very important to do so that you will not be affecting students' internet access when they are not in your class. 

Class Tools: Allow you to interact with students during a Classwize session 

• Open Site: opens a website in a new browser window or tab for all students; students can close the tab or browse other tabs

• Send Message: send a simple text message to students; appears at the top of their current window

• Focus: stops students from accessing the internet except for one or more Focused Sites that you set 

• Reward: gives your class temporary access to sites (from 10 minutes up to 3 hours) 

• Pause Internet: temporarily stops students from accessing the internet

Rules: Allow you to interact with internet filtering during class

• Locked: sites that are locked at the district level and cannot be allowed by a rule

• Blocked: a rule you set blocking student access to a specific website that is normally allowed by the district filter

• Allowed: a rule you set to allow student access to a specific website that is normally blocked by the district filter

Please note that students must use the Google Chrome browser for these management options to work.