7.5 Creating and Managing Classes

Classes let staff group students together for teaching, tracking, and personalised support. You can keep classes private or share them school-wide for collaboration and analytics.

What classes are

• A class is a group of students you create in CurricuLLM.
• Classes help you organise students by teaching group, subject, year level, or any grouping that makes sense for your school.
• Classes can be private (visible only to you) or shared (visible to all staff across the school).
• Once created, classes are used in progression analytics to track group performance and in the progression agent to provide personalised insights about student learning.

Creating a new class

• Go to the Classes section in your CurricuLLM account.
• Click the Create Class button.
• Give your class a clear name (e.g. "Year 7 Maths," "Stage 4 Science," "Room 12 English").
• Choose whether the class should be Private or Shared:
  • Private → Only you can see and use this class.
  • Shared → All staff at your school can see and use this class in their planning and analytics.
• Save the class.

Adding students to classes

• Open the class you want to edit.
• Click Add Students.
• Select students from the list of enrolled students at your school.
• You can add students one at a time or select multiple students at once.
• Students can be part of multiple classes (e.g. a student might be in "Year 8 English" and "Year 8 Maths").
• Changes are saved automatically.

Sharing classes

• When you create a class, you choose whether it's Private or Shared.
• Private classes:
  • Only you can see them in your class list.
  • Useful for your own teaching groups, trial groups, or temporary groupings.
• Shared classes:
  • Visible to all staff across the school.
  • Useful for year-level cohorts, subject classes, or groups used in whole-school analytics.
  • Other staff can use these classes in Studio mode, progression analytics, and when planning differentiated work.
• You can change a class from Private to Shared (or back) at any time by editing the class settings.

Using classes in progression analytics

• In the Data and Insights section, you can filter analytics dashboards by class.
• This lets you see how a specific class is progressing, where students need support, and which curriculum areas are well covered.
• Shared classes appear in the analytics for all staff, making it easier to collaborate on supporting students.
• Progression analytics shows:
  • Which outcomes the class has engaged with.
  • Which students in the class are progressing well or need extra support.
  • Patterns in learning activity across the class over time.

Using classes with progression agent

• The progression agent uses class data to provide personalised teaching recommendations.
• When you ask the progression agent for support ideas, it can reference the students in a class and their progression data to suggest:
  • Differentiated activities tailored to the class's learning levels.
  • Targeted intervention strategies for students who need extra help.
  • Extension activities for students who are ready to move ahead.
• In Studio mode, you can tag a class with @ (e.g. @Year7Maths) to ground your planning in real student progression data from that class.

Managing and editing classes

• Rename a class
  • Open the class and click Edit.
  • Update the name and save.
• Remove students from a class
  • Open the class, find the student you want to remove, and click the Remove button next to their name.
  • Removing a student from a class does not delete their account or progression data.
• Delete a class
  • Open the class and click Delete Class.
  • Deleting a class removes the grouping but does not affect individual student accounts or their learning history.
  • Be careful when deleting shared classes, other staff may be using them for planning or analytics.

Tips for staff

• Use clear, descriptive names for classes so they're easy to identify (e.g. "2026 Year 9 Science" instead of "Class 1").
• Create shared classes for groups that multiple teachers work with, like year-level cohorts or subject classes.
• Keep private classes for your own teaching experiments, trial groupings, or temporary groups.
• Review your class lists regularly to remove students who have moved groups or left the school.
• Use classes in Studio mode by tagging them with @ to get planning support based on real student progression data.

What this means for schools

Classes make it easier for staff to organise teaching, track student progress, and collaborate on supporting learners. By sharing classes, schools create a common language for discussing student groups, making analytics more useful and planning more efficient.