Classrooms and Assignment Workflows
Set up classrooms, add students, assign lessons, and understand how delivery works from the educator side.
Building a lesson is only half the job. The other half is getting the right lesson to the right learners in a manageable way.
What classrooms are for
A classroom gives you a structured home for a group of students.
Each classroom carries:
- A classroom name
- A grade level
- A school year
- A student roster
This makes classrooms a practical organizational layer even before you start assigning lessons.
Your default classroom
When you first sign up, Berdee gives you a starter classroom called My Classroom so you have somewhere to add students right away — no setup required. On the Free plan it's your one classroom; Plus and above let you create more. It's set to No Grade and the current school year. Rename it or delete it whenever you like from the ⋯ button in its header; it behaves exactly like a classroom you create yourself. See Edit and Remove Students and Classes.
Typical educator workflow
The most natural flow looks like this:
- Create the classroom
- Add students
- Create or refine a lesson
- Assign the lesson to selected students
- Review attempts from the lesson or student view
Creating a classroom
When you create a classroom, you define:
- The classroom name
- The grade level
- The school year
This is especially helpful if you manage multiple groups or revisit the same course structure year after year. If a group doesn't map to a single grade, choose No Grade for the grade level.
Adding students
After a classroom exists, you can add students to its roster on any plan. The Free plan includes one classroom (your My Classroom) with up to 5 students — enough for a family or a small group. When you need more classrooms or students, upgrade to Plus or Studio Pro. See Plans.
Who can add students
You can add students when you teach them for a school or district (as a teacher, therapist, tutor or other staff member), or when they're your own children. The school, or you as the parent, is who gives consent for the information Berdee keeps about each student.
If you work with students privately, as a tutor or therapist whom families hire directly, please don't add those students yet. Berdee doesn't yet have a way for a parent to give consent directly. See How student consent works in the Student Privacy Policy.
Adding a student
Add each student with their own school email. An email that already belongs to a Berdee account that isn't a student account, such as a teacher's or a staff member's, can't be added: Berdee says _"This email can't be added as a student. Use the student's own school email."_
That roster becomes the practical pool you are working with when delivering lessons.
Made a typo, or a student left? Each student's ⋮ menu on the classroom page has Edit student, Remove from class and Remove from my account. See Edit and Remove Students and Classes.
A strong habit is to create classrooms first, then build assignment workflows around those real groups rather than treating lessons as isolated projects.
If your classes already live in Google Classroom, you can skip the manual roster step — see Sync Classrooms from Google Classroom (beta) for the connect-and-import flow. Once a class is linked, you can also post lessons to its Google Classroom course when you assign them, so students find them in their Classroom stream, and send their scores to your Classroom gradebook as draft grades.
Assigning a lesson
Assignments happen from the classroom page. Click Assignments to bulk-assign one or more lessons to one or more students, or use the (...) overflow menu on a single student's row to assign just to that learner. See Assigning Lessons to Students for the full walkthrough.
You can also assign from a lesson's own detail page when that flow fits the moment better.
For a class linked to Google Classroom, the assign dialog also offers Post to Google Classroom (ticked by default) when you assign to the whole class, and Send scores to Classroom as draft grades (also ticked), which sends each student's score to Classroom for you to review and return. Berdee assigns the lesson first and then posts it; if posting doesn't work, the lesson is still assigned. See Post Lessons to Google Classroom.
From a lesson detail page, you can select students and assign that lesson to them.
Assigning, seeing each student's attempts and grading work on every plan, Free included. The detail page's Assignments section lists everyone you've assigned the lesson to, with each student's attempts. If you moved from a paid plan to Free, everything you already assigned stays there, and you can keep assigning and grading. See Cancelling or moving to Free.
That gives you a clean delivery workflow:
- One lesson
- Multiple learners
- Tracked assignment records
- Visible attempt counts
Why this matters for documentation and instruction
Classroom delivery is where instructional design becomes real classroom use.
This is when you start asking:
- Should this lesson go to everyone or a smaller support group
- Is the lesson ready for independent use
- Will learners need retries or support scenes
- Do I want one assignment or a series over time
Good assignment use cases
- Send the same warm-up to a full classroom
- Assign a targeted practice lesson to a smaller intervention group
- Give one extension lesson only to students ready for enrichment
- Reuse an older lesson with a new classroom in a new school year
What you can review after assigning
From the educator side, assignments help you see:
- Which learners received the lesson
- When it was assigned
- How many attempts have been made
- Recorded attempt output for review
That makes assignments useful not just for delivery, but for follow-up and iteration.
When a student's account is removed
You can remove a student from your account yourself: see Edit and Remove Students and Classes. A parent or your school can also ask Berdee to delete a student's account. Berdee confirms the request with the school first, then removes the student and emails you: "A student was removed from your class." To protect the student's privacy, the email doesn't say who.
Once a student is removed:
- They're no longer on any of your class rosters.
- Their access codes stop working, so you can throw away any printed codes for them.
- Their past lesson results are kept for your school's records, under an anonymous student with no name or email.
You don't need to do anything, even if you sync from Google Classroom: syncs keep a removed student out, so you don't have to remove them in Google too. The class page counts them under kept out of Google syncs.