A classroom is where one group of students lives in Intertwined. Their roster, the courses you assign, assignments, grades, simulator games and progress all belong to that class. Most teachers create one classroom per class period, because each class keeps its own progress and its own simulators.
This article walks through the Classrooms page, creating a class, what a brand new class looks like, and putting your classes in the order you want.
Available on: every plan, including Free.
The Classrooms page
Click Classrooms in the sidebar. The page is titled Your Classrooms, and the line under it counts your classes, for example "Maria's classes · 4 total · 4 active". Classes you co-teach with another teacher appear here too.
Along the top you'll find:
Cards and List: two ways to see the same classes. Cards are easier to scan; List fits more classes on screen.
Create Class: starts a new classroom (see below).
Search classrooms...: filters by class name as you type.
All and Active: a status filter. Every class you create is marked Active.
A count such as "3 of 5 shown", so you always know whether a search is hiding something.
Each card shows the class name, the number of students, the grade you picked, a status pill, a Completion bar (how far the class has gotten through its course) and the Avg Quiz Score. The List view shows the same information in columns: CLASS, STATUS, STUDENTS, GRADE, COMPLETION and AVG QUIZ SCORE. A dash means there's nothing to show yet, usually because the class has no course or no one has finished a quiz. Click any card or row to open that class.
Create a classroom
Click Classrooms in the sidebar.
Click Create Class in the top right. The Create a classroom window opens.
Under Name, type a name you and your students will recognize, such as "Personal Finance - Period 5".
Under Grade, choose the grade level. The choices run from 5th through 12th, plus College, University and Youth Program. It starts on 9th.
Click Create class. The button stays gray until the class has a name.
You land straight on your new class's page. Intertwined makes a class code for it automatically, so you can start inviting students right away.
If something goes wrong, you'll see "The classroom was not created. Please try again." in the window. Your typing is still there, so click Create class again.
Good to know: the grade is a label for you (and for your school administrator, if your school has one). It doesn't change which courses you can assign or what students see.
What a new class looks like
The colored band at the top of every class page is the class header. From left to right it has:
All Classes, which takes you back to the Classrooms page, and today's date.
The class name, an Active status pill, and a line such as "0 students · Grade 9th".
Share Class Code, which opens the code and join link your students use. See Inviting students with your class code or join link.
Under the header is the tab bar: Overview, Students, Gradebook, Coursework, Simulators, Rankings, and a gear icon at the far right for the class settings. A new class opens on Overview, which says No students yet until someone joins. Once students arrive but before you add a course, it says No course assigned yet and points you to Coursework.
Opening a class also makes it your current class. The sidebar's Planner, Gradebook, Reteach and Integrity pages open on the class you looked at most recently, which saves a step when you jump between them.
Get a new class ready
Bring your students in, either with the class code or with accounts you create for them. Class code or teacher-created accounts: which should I use? helps you choose.
Add a course from Coursework > Assigned Courses. See Adding a course to your classroom.
If you share the class with another teacher, add them from the gear icon > Instructors. See Co-teaching: adding instructors to a classroom.
Put your classes in your own order
By default your classes appear in the order Intertwined lists them. You can arrange them to match your day, so first period sits first.
On the Classrooms page, point at a card (or a row in List view). A small grip icon appears at its left edge.
Drag the card and drop it onto the card whose place it should take. That card and the ones after it shift over.
Repeat until the order looks right. There's no Save button; each move is saved as you make it.
Prefer the keyboard? Press Tab until the class you want to move is highlighted, then hold Alt (Option on a Mac) and press the arrow keys to move it one place at a time. This is also the way to reorder on a touchscreen device with a keyboard attached, because dragging needs a mouse or trackpad.
Your order is saved to your account, so it's the same on any computer you sign in from. It's also yours alone: a co-teacher who shares one of your classes keeps their own arrangement. Classes you create later land at the end of the list. To go back to the default order, click Reset order, which appears once you've arranged things yourself.
Tips
Name classes the way your students talk about them. A student who is in more than one class picks between them by name, so "Personal Finance - Period 5" beats "PF5".
If you teach the same course to several periods, still make one classroom per period. Each class gets its own roster, progress, gradebook and simulator games, which keeps your data clean and your rankings fair.
If you search or filter first and then use Alt and the arrow keys, the card moves past only the classes you can see.
Your Cards or List choice resets when you leave the page, so pick whichever you like each visit.
Common questions
Is there a limit to how many classrooms I can create?
No. Create as many as you need, on any plan.
Can I change the grade after I create a class?
Not at the moment. The class settings let you rename a class, but the grade stays as you set it. Because the grade is only a label, a wrong grade doesn't affect anything your students see. If it bothers you, you can create a new class with the right grade before students join.
Can I archive or hide an old class?
There's no archive or inactive setting today, so every class stays Active. Your options are to leave the class where it is (drag it to the end of your list) or delete it. Deleting removes the class and all of its student work for good, so read Classroom settings: renaming and deleting a class first.
Why does my class show a dash for Completion or Avg Quiz Score?
Completion needs a course and some student progress. Avg Quiz Score needs at least one finished quiz. Both fill in on their own as students work.
A class I didn't create is on my Classrooms page. Why?
Another teacher added you as a co-instructor on their class. It works like your own classes, with a few actions kept for the teacher who created it. See Co-teaching: adding instructors to a classroom.