☀️ Classroomie

Help & guide

Everything you need to build a board and put it on your classroom TV. Tap a question to open it.

🧭 The big idea

You build and manage your board from your computer, phone, or tablet. The classroom TV shows the board through a private link — no login needed on the screen, and it refreshes itself automatically every minute.

So you tweak things from your desk, and the TV keeps up on its own.

🏠 Make a board

From your Boards page, choose New board. Give it a name (like “Room 7” or “Afternoon Board”).

You can make more than one board and even duplicate a board you like as a starting point for another — handy for a base board plus variations.

🧩 Turn cards on or off

Open a board and tap 🧩 Cards. Every card lives here — weather, timer, joke, word of the day, calendar, attendance, polls, and more.

Turn on only the cards you want. Everything fits one TV screen, so if you see a “too full” note, hide or shrink a card.

✋ Arrange and size cards

Tap ✋ Rearrange, then drag a card — the others slide out of the way to show where it will land. Works with a finger on a touch TV.

In ✏️ Customize you can resize a card, change its style (the ‹ › arrows), make the background see-through, and shrink or grow its text with A− / A+.

✏️ Edit what a card says

Tap ✏️ Customize, then tap any card to edit it — type your own joke, message, or schedule, or leave it blank to use the automatic daily content.

“Use automatic” hands a card back to the daily rotation at any time.

🎨 Themes and decorations

Tap 🎨 Theme for seasonal, holiday, and anytime themes. There's a checkbox for gentle floating decorations (falling snow, bubbles, stars).

For sensory-sensitive rooms, you can switch decorations off, and all animations automatically respect a device's “reduce motion” setting.

✨ Stickers

Tap ✨ Stickers to pin any picture or GIF — a big arrow, a character — anywhere on the board, even on top of a card. Drag to move, and use the little controls to resize or rotate. It shows on the TV in the same spot.

🗂️ The Content Library

The Library is a shared pool of jokes, facts, quotes, questions, turn-&-talk prompts, would-you-rathers, words, writing prompts, morning messages, and polls — used across all your boards.

It's stocked automatically from your first visit, so there's nothing to import. Add your own anytime, and the usage history shows when and where an item was last used.

Words can be tagged 💛 SEL (social-emotional learning), and Word of the Day has an “SEL words only” mode.

📅 Plan the week ahead

The Planner lets you drop specific content onto specific days. It shows only the cards your board actually uses, so there's nothing to memorize.

Need to plan for a card you haven't turned on yet? Use “Show all cards” to see everything.

📺 Put it on the TV

On a board, tap 🔗 TV link to copy the display link. Open that link on the classroom TV (or paste it into your TV's browser) and leave it up.

The link needs no login and is private-but-unguessable. Edits you make from your desk appear on the TV within a minute.

🌟 The interactive cards

Who's Here Today: tap a name on your device to check students in or out — the TV shows the live count, and it resets each morning.

Class Poll: tap an answer to add a vote and watch the bars grow; raise-your-hand voting works on the TV too.

Tapping happens on your teacher device; the TV mirrors the result.

💛 Tips for special-education rooms

Lean on the visual cards — Today's Date, Number of the Day, Who's Here, Color & Shape — which anchor routine and reduce anxiety.

Keep a calm theme and turn floating decorations down if they distract. Bump up card text size with A+ for easier reading from the carpet.