Classroom

You say bell schedules can be set at an OU level. The way you have defined OU level is, in my opinion, not well thought out . My "OUs" according to your definition are Google and Active Directory top level. We have our district broken out into buildings and grade levels, but they aren't considered an OU in your system despite being one in AD and Google's systems. I therefore cannot define schedules per building. You still have districts pigeonholed into poor schedule design. Admins still cannot make multiple schedules for each building while also selecting the same days for different schedules. You are locking out days when they are used in one schedule so they can't be replicated in a different schedule. I would understand the logic behind that if I could apply the schedule to an OU of my choice, but your definition of an OU prevents that. For example, grades 7-8 share a building with grades 9-12. The schedules for those two sets of students are slightly different. I have an OU for each grade level, but since it isn't recognized as such I am knee capped from being able to set more than one schedule. The dev team needs to revisit scheduling again because having teachers create custom schedules every single year is silly. I should be able to set them according to building/grade level and have it automatically apply. The original intent of scheduling was designed to do that in theory but is still failing on a functional level.

You say bell schedules can be set at an OU level. The way you have defined OU level is, in my opinion, not well thought out . My "OUs" according to your definition are Google and Active Directory top level. We have our district broken out into buildings and grade levels, but they aren't considered an OU in your system despite being one in AD and Google's systems. I therefore cannot define schedules per building. You still have districts pigeonholed into poor schedule design. Admins still cannot make multiple schedules for each building while also selecting the same days for different schedules. You are locking out days when they are used in one schedule so they can't be replicated in a different schedule. I would understand the logic behind that if I could apply the schedule to an OU of my choice, but your definition of an OU prevents that. For example, grades 7-8 share a building with grades 9-12. The schedules for those two sets of students are slightly different. I have an OU for each grade level, but since it isn't recognized as such I am knee capped from being able to set more than one schedule. The dev team needs to revisit scheduling again because having teachers create custom schedules every single year is silly. I should be able to set them according to building/grade level and have it automatically apply. The original intent of scheduling was designed to do that in theory but is still failing on a functional level.

Our current filter allows teachers to integrate Google Drive files seamlessly within the live instruction environment. This functionality is critical to our operations and is the primary reason we have not transitioned to Lightspeed Classroom. We are current users of both the Filter and Digital Insight solutions and would love to include Lightspeed Classroom in our workflow if this feature is added. To provide additional context, I have included a screenshot showcasing how this functionality appears in our current solution. Thank you for considering this request.

Along with whitelisting domains, a "quick add" feature so that when a student is blocked from a site the teacher directs them to, a button on the teacher end could quickly allow it and add it to the active whitelist.

Along with whitelisting domains, a "quick add" feature so that when a student is blocked from a site the teacher directs them to, a button on the teacher end could quickly allow it and add it to the active whitelist.

The way the current whitelisting has worked for me is that I have to go and add every single individual link students might go onto. For example, if I have an assignment in schoology the link changes for every question on the assignment. Can I whitelist Schoology and all of it's subdomains?

We find teachers sometimes accidentally toggle on "Pause Internet" or aren't sure what it does or that it "sticks" until toggled off. Please add some guard rails like an "Are you sure? This action will block students from accessing any websites until you toggle off this feature" message that requires teachers to further "agree" before it goes into effect. In addition, for teachers who don't realize the Pause Internet will go back into effect for the next class session if left on, it would be helpful for a flag on the class tile and a more obvious banner or message if this feature is turned on. The blue toggle isn't an obvious enough sign for many that this feature is on and teachers reach out confused as to why their students are getting blocked.

Our teachers have set up custom class times and would love for them to auto-start at that time so they don't have to remember to start them.

Once I'm monitoring a class I have to scroll quite a bit to see all the screens (max class size is 24). A lot of screen real estate is taken up at the side and top by UI that could be minimized. I'd also like to be able to toggle to see all the screens at once (without scrolling) regardless of how small that makes them. Essentially a "Fit to screen" option.

Instead of "Add students to your class using their email addresses" one by one, can we have a bulk add feature? For instance, if I have a excel file with students email addresses, can I add that file (or a template for bulk upload), or add email addresses separated by colon, semi-colon? That will will speed up onboarding, since students may not be compliant with scanning a QR Code and entering the join code.