7.5 Creating and Managing Classes

Classes let staff group students together for teaching, tracking, and personalised support. You can keep classes private or share them school-wide for collaboration and analytics. Classes can also be created automatically through SIS integration.

What classes are

• A class is a group of students you create in CurricuLLM.
• Classes help you organise students by teaching group, subject, year level, or any grouping that makes sense for your school.
• Classes can be Private (visible only to you) or set to Everyone (visible to all staff across the school).
• Classes created through SIS integration are tagged with a LISS badge and include their assigned teacher.
• Once created, classes are used in progression analytics to track group performance and in the progression agent to provide personalised insights about student learning.

The Classes screen

• The sidebar lists all classes with their name, student count, assigned teacher, and visibility setting.
• Use the Search classes bar to quickly find a specific class.
• Classes imported from your SIS display a LISS badge, making it easy to distinguish them from manually created classes.
• Select a class to view its settings and manage its students.

Creating a new class

• Click the + Add Class button.
• Give your class a clear name (e.g. "8 Cirrus English," "English Year 10," "Year 7 Maths").
• Choose the Visibility setting:
  • Private → Only you can see and use this class.
  • Everyone → All staff at your school can see and use this class in their planning and analytics.

Class settings

When you select a class, the detail panel shows:

• Visibility — Change between Private and Everyone at any time using the dropdown.
• Teacher — The assigned teacher for the class. LISS-managed classes show the teacher synced from your SIS.
• Students — The current number of students in the class.

Assigning students to classes

The Assign Students panel lets you manage class membership using two lists:

• Available — Shows all students not currently in the class, with a count (e.g. "Available (25)"). Each student shows their name and email address. Use the search bar to find specific students.
• Class Students — Shows students currently in the class, with a count (e.g. "Class Students (4)"). Use the search bar to find students within the class.

To manage students:

• Select a student from the Available list and click >> to add them to the class.
• Click All >> to add all available students at once.
• Select a student from the Class Students list and click <strong><<</strong> to remove them.
• Click <strong><< All</strong> to remove all students from the class.
• Students can be part of multiple classes (e.g. a student might be in "English Year 7" and "English Year 9").

LISS-managed classes

If your school has SIS integration enabled, classes synced from your Student Information System are tagged with a LISS badge in the sidebar. These classes are automatically created with the correct teacher and student assignments from your SIS. You can still manually adjust visibility and student membership as needed.

Using classes in progression analytics

• In the Data and Insights section, you can filter analytics dashboards by class.
• This lets you see how a specific class is progressing, where students need support, and which curriculum areas are well covered.
• Shared classes appear in the analytics for all staff, making it easier to collaborate on supporting students.
• Progression analytics shows:
  • Which outcomes the class has engaged with.
  • Which students in the class are progressing well or need extra support.
  • Patterns in learning activity across the class over time.

Using classes with progression agent

• The progression agent uses class data to provide personalised teaching recommendations.
• When you ask the progression agent for support ideas, it can reference the students in a class and their progression data to suggest:
  • Differentiated activities tailored to the class's learning levels.
  • Targeted intervention strategies for students who need extra help.
  • Extension activities for students who are ready to move ahead.
• In Studio mode, you can tag a class with @ (e.g. @Year7Maths) to ground your planning in real student progression data from that class.

Managing and editing classes

• Rename a class
  • Select the class and update its name.
• Remove students from a class
  • Select the student in the Class Students list and click <strong><<</strong> to move them back to Available.
  • Removing a student from a class does not delete their account or progression data.
• Delete a class
  • Delete the class from the class settings.
  • Deleting a class removes the grouping but does not affect individual student accounts or their learning history.
  • Be careful when deleting shared classes — other staff may be using them for planning or analytics.

Tips for staff

• Use clear, descriptive names for classes so they're easy to identify (e.g. "English Year 10" or "8 Cirrus English" instead of "Class 1").
• Set visibility to Everyone for groups that multiple teachers work with, like year-level cohorts or subject classes.
• Keep classes Private for your own teaching experiments, trial groupings, or temporary groups.
• Review your class lists regularly to remove students who have moved groups or left the school.
• Use classes in Studio mode by tagging them with @ to get planning support based on real student progression data.

What this means for schools

Classes make it easier for staff to organise teaching, track student progress, and collaborate on supporting learners. With SIS integration, classes and their student memberships can be kept in sync automatically, reducing manual administration. By sharing classes, schools create a common language for discussing student groups, making analytics more useful and planning more efficient.