ClassCraft: The New Way to Manage Your Classroom

 

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If you're an educator, you know you're more than just a teacher. You're a cheerleader, a caretaker, and a mentor. As online teaching has become more popular, you've likely also had to become tech support, an online instructor, and a digital content creator. You'll also need time to teach whilst ensuring that your classroom management is up to standard. If this is you, then say hello to CLASSCRAFT.

What is Class Craft?

Classcraft is an online and app-based fantasy-themed behavior and learning-management platform with a role-playing game (RPG) theme. It comes with a mobile app and Classcraft is student-centered, so it's designed to generate a consistent flow of high-fidelity data that provides clear insights into student behavior and school culture. Most importantly, it shows you what's working and what should be improved. That most effective behavior support is preventative and data-driven,hence one of the best classroom management programs that there is. 

Designed to promote student participation, this technology incorporates games for participants to level up, collaborate in teams, and earn rewards within real-world simulations. This technology allows students and teachers to engage in their lessons through a creative and modern learning adventure.  

It offers a limited number of features which are: motivating classroom management, customizable characters (limited), as well as parent features and messaging. 

What age is Classcraft for?

Class Craft is for students from elementary school ages up to higher education.

 Any more features of Classcraft?

It is a role-playing gamification software that adds fun and adventure to the learning experience. It is an easy to use software and is backed by a dedicated customer service team. It is designed with gamification attributes like contest management, rewards management, performance metrics and collaboration tools. With its attractive gamified layout, this software can easily add desired gamification elements to any classroom. Classcraft takes video game mechanics and implements these to the classroom setting.The software is compatible with multiple devices.

 Who created Class Craft?

Founded in 2013 by brothers Shawn and Devin Young and their father Lauren Young, Classcraft is an award-winning ed-tech company serving more than 8 million students and educators worldwide and a Quebec-based certified B Corporation.

How do teachers use Classcraft?

Teachers set up games and manage students via a dashboard. Students are assigned a character -- Guardian, Healer, or Mage -- and work individually or in groups to gain experience through positive behaviors and academic achievements.

How do you level up in Classcraft?

When a student gains enough Experience Points to fill the purple bar on their profile view, their level will increase by one. With each level, they'll gain a single Crystal, up to a maximum visible on their profile (in the Master phase, this maximum depends on their character class), and a handful of Gold Pieces.

 

Uses of Classcraft? 

You can use Classcraft for:  

 Active learning. Making space for students to interact with the content and/or with one another during class-time can support active learning and help students better recall information they are learning. Classcraft’s role-playing game (RPG) theme allows students to interact with course material through earning points, leveling up after epic battles, and collaborating with students in the simulation.  

Student paced mastery learning. You can create online asynchronous lesson quests for students to engage, allowing for individually paced learning experiences. This aligns well with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) practices, offering students autonomy around when and how they choose to engage with the lesson. 

Gamification. Keep students engaged while getting real-time insight into student understanding. You can observe student participation and award experience points for hard work and completing objectives. You can create a series of questions for student to tackle in an interactive battle lesson. Students can work individually or in teams to correctly answer the questions and beat the monster in order to advance to the next level.

 

Pricing Details

Classcraft offers a basic plan for free. Paid subscription premium plan at $120USD a year and custom plans are available on request.

 Below is a video giving teachers an idea of how to apply this software within the classroom.