Teacher guide

How to use CanopyKids as a teacher

Set up your classes, hand each student their own login, and keep goals, progress and class conversation in one place — with families able to follow along.

General guideParent guide

1. Create student logins

On your Dashboard → Kids tab, create a login for each student with its own username and password — up to 20 seats. Each student gets a private chat history, and every seat is covered by your school plan.

2. Create your classes

Open the School dashboard and go to the Classes tab. Give each class a name (and period or subject if you like) — you can run as many named classes as you need.

3. Build the roster

Press “Edit roster” on a class and tick which student logins belong to it. A student can sit in more than one class, and removing them from a roster never deletes their login or history.

4. Watch progress per student

The progress table shows each student's activity over the last 30 days, any safety flags and how their goals are going — so you can spot who's stuck without reading every conversation.

5. Set goals and keep private notes

Add class goals with due dates and tick them off as students finish. Each student also has a private note only you can see — useful for accommodations, follow-ups or a heads-up for a parent conversation.

6. Use the class board

Every class has a shared message board where you, parents and students post to one thread. The AI never posts here — it's a plain human conversation, visible to that class only.

7. Run the school view

The School tab totals classes, students, posts and goals, lists every class with its roster size and latest activity, and adds a school-wide announcement board plus a shared history feed across all your classes.

8. Point families at the Classroom page

Parents and students see a matching Classroom page with their class goals, the class board and the school board — so families follow along without you sending anything out separately.

Teacher questions

Start your first class

Create student logins from the Dashboard, then build the class in the School dashboard.