SchoolStack user guide

SchoolStack is a place for a class to work together online: teachers post announcements, work and materials; students hand in work and get it back with grades and comments. It works the way Google Classroom does, and it is built to be usable by everyone, including people who use a screen reader, a keyboard only, large text or high contrast.

This guide is also in the app: choose Help at the top of any page.

Pages of this guide

• Getting started: create an account, sign in, create or join a class, and the step-by-step Training with a practice class (in the app at Training).
• For teachers: run a class: the stream, classwork (assignments, questions, quizzes, materials), files, scheduling, marking, returning work and grades.
• For students: join a class, find your work, hand it in, answer questions and quizzes, and see your grades.
• Settings and accessibility: text size, high contrast, reduced motion, your time zone, and tips for keyboards and screen readers.
• For the person who runs the server: installing, updating, backups, server options, and the command-line and agent tools.
• Reference: every action: a complete list of what SchoolStack can do, with the name each action has for the command-line tool and for AI agents.

Every topic ends with a short Example: showing it in use at a school.

Words used in this guide

• Class: a group with teachers and students. Each class has a Stream (announcements and comments), Classwork (work and materials, grouped by topic), People, Grades and, for teachers, Settings.
• Classwork item: an assignment, a question, a quiz assignment or a material.
• Turn in: hand in your work. Return: the teacher hands it back, with any grade.
• Draft: saved but not shown to students yet. Scheduled: will be posted at a set time.
• Draft grade: a grade only teachers can see, until they return the work.