For lecturers
Your whole class on one screen. And help one click away.
Teaching twenty people online usually means lecturing blind — you don't know who's lost, who's bored and whose environment just broke. classroom.now gives you a live session console: live screen views, a hand-raise queue, breakout rooms and a way to step straight into a student's terminal. You keep teaching — and you see everything.
Live session console
Run the whole session from one place
Open the lobby before the start and see who has already arrived. Then start the session with one click — and recording starts with it. Video is built in (Jitsi) and moderator rights are yours automatically; no juggling five applications.
- Session modes — presentation, lab, discussion, review — switch on keys 1–4.
- A hand-raise queue: you see the count and the order, nobody gets skipped.
- Broadcast an announcement, start a break countdown, or move the whole class to a specific lesson — forced, or just suggested.
- Live per-student progress right on the roster.
Screen monitoring
See who's struggling — before they give up
With monitoring on, you face a live wall of thumbnails of every student's screen. Colour-coded borders distinguish who's progressing, who's been idle for a while, who's raising a hand and who lost connection — and struggling students automatically float to the front. Built for classes of twenty or more.
- One click focuses a student at higher fidelity; a pointing cursor shows them where to look.
- Full remote control with dual cursors — the student is never locked out and can request to end the assist at any time.
- A visible indicator stays on the student's screen the whole time and every action lands in the audit log.
- Frames and inputs are only relayed — never persisted.
- Each thumbnail carries that student's lesson progress and exercise results.
Labs & terminal
Help right inside the student's terminal
Every participant works in their own lab with a terminal right in the browser. You attach to any session in observe mode — and when needed, switch to assist and type into the same terminal as the student. You show them exactly where they went wrong instead of describing it in words.
- Terminals run on tmux — a dropped connection doesn't reset the student, the session resumes where it left off.
- Both observe and assist always show the student a visible indicator and leave a complete audit trail.
- Labs are provisioned for all participants automatically 24 hours before the session; restart, extend or terminate is always at hand.
- Lab-time mode with a time panel and suggested navigation — the class knows what to work on and how much time is left.
- Remote desktops over Guacamole — the lecturer can watch the student's desktop alongside them.
AI at your side
A second pair of eyes that never decides for you
During the session, AI watches for patterns no single person can track — and speaks up only when it has something to say. The decision is always yours: AI never overrides your judgment as a lecturer.
- An alert above the monitoring grid: “Students 3, 7 and 14 are stuck on the same exercise — consider a group explanation.”
- Class chat summarization — learn that three students asked about the same error without having to read the chat.
- Terminal assist for students: it reads the output the student shares and suggests the next step. It never executes commands itself.
- The assistant answers strictly from your organization's own content and knows the context of the current lesson and your role.
Breakout rooms
Group work without the logistics chaos
Create rooms in bulk, assign or move students between them, and pull everyone back with a single button at the end. And when there are more groups than you can visit, seat an AI discussion partner in the room.
- Bulk room creation with per-participant assignment — moves on the fly included.
- An AI discussion partner in the room, with a role you configure yourself.
- You monitor the rooms in real time.
- Timers with a 30-second warning before the end — nobody gets cut off mid-sentence.
Recordings & transcripts
The session write-up writes itself
Recording starts and stops with the session — you never have to think about it. The recording then flows through Whisper transcription with speaker segmentation, and AI prepares the summary, key topics and action items. All that's left for you is what machines can't do: notes on your own teaching.
- The transcript separates speakers — easily find who said what, and when.
- An AI summary, key topics and action items from every session.
- Annotations right on the seek bar: note, positive, improvement.
- Playback runs over short-lived secure links — recordings can't be downloaded and passed around.
- Attendance derives automatically from real joins and leaves; corrections (excused/unexcused) can be added later.
Schedule & materials
A conflict-free schedule, the course your way
Your schedule lives in the platform, in a personal iCal feed and as real Outlook/Teams invitations — booked room included. Scheduling guards against double-booking lecturers and rooms. And you prepare session materials your way without changing a single letter of the master course.
- Instructor notes, supplementary blocks and lesson reordering apply to your sessions only — students see a merged view with supplementary content badged.
- Ad-hoc programs: assemble modules from different courses, add day separators, share with colleagues and schedule right after approval.
- Invitations update themselves for participants on reschedule or cancellation.
A day with classroom.now
What a lecturer's training day looks like
Before class
Everyone's labs have been running since yesterday — provisioned automatically 24 hours ahead. You open the lobby and skim your instructor notes.
Start
One click starts the session and the recording. Presentation mode — the class follows your talk and your navigation between lessons.
Lab time
One key switches to lab mode. The screen grid shows who's stuck; AI flags three students on the same exercise — you help one right in their terminal.
Discussion
Breakout rooms — one gets an AI partner. The timer warns 30 seconds before the end and one button pulls everyone back.
After class
Ending the session stops the recording. Attendance is already logged, and the transcript, AI summary and action items arrive on their own — you just add annotations to the recording.
FAQ
What lecturers ask us
Do students know when I'm looking at their screen or terminal?
Yes, always. Both observing and assisting show a persistent visible indicator on the student's side, and every input is written to the audit log. During screen remote control, two cursors stay active and the student can request to end at any time, so they are never locked out — and relayed screen frames are never stored.
Do I have to think about recording and session write-ups?
No. Recording starts and stops together with the session. The recording is then automatically transcribed with speaker segmentation, and AI generates the summary, key topics and action items. Playback runs over short-lived secure links with no download path.
Can I adapt a course to my teaching style without touching the original?
Yes. Your instructor notes, supplementary blocks and reordering are layered on top of the master course, which stays untouched — participants of your sessions see a merged view with supplementary content badged. You can also assemble your own ad-hoc program from modules across courses, share it with colleagues and schedule it once approved.
What if a student's connection drops mid-exercise?
Terminals run on tmux, so after reconnecting the student continues exactly where they left off. Labs are also provisioned automatically 24 hours before the session through a job queue with retries — and restart, extend and manual triggers are at your fingertips.
How is attendance tracked?
Automatically — it derives from real join and leave activity in the session, not manual notes. Corrections such as excused or unexcused absences can be added afterwards. Invitations reach participants as real Outlook/Teams meetings and update themselves on reschedule.
See the lecturer console live
Tell us what you teach and for how many participants — we'll prepare a walkthrough of the live session, screen monitoring and labs tailored to your field.
Contact ushello@classroom.now