ReasonBoard — teacher guide

For the teacher running a class. Nothing technical, no setup — your school admin has already done that. If something here doesn't match what you see, tell us: Settings → 💬 Report a problem.

The one-minute version

Create a class. My classes → pick a grade and subject → Create.
Add your students by pasting your class list, one name per line.
Print their cards and hand them out. Each student gets a personal link.
Assign a lesson from your library to the class.
Students open the lesson, watch it, and answer the questions. You see how they did.

Everything else in this guide is detail on those five steps.

Your classes

A class is one subject for one group of students — "Grade 12 · Mathematics". If you teach the same students for two subjects, make two classes. Students can be in as many as they need with a single sign-in.

Open My classes in the top bar. Each class card shows how many students are in it and how many lessons are assigned. Click the card to open it.

Inside a class there are four tabs:

Tab	What it's for
👥 Students	Your class list, who has signed in, and each student's progress
📚 Lessons	The lessons assigned to this class, and the picker to assign more
✏️ Practice	Untimed question drills students can do any time, including offline
📝 Mock exams	Timed, graded exams

Getting your students in

This is the part worth reading carefully — it's where most first-week trouble comes from.

Add the names

Students tab → paste your class list into the box, one name per line → Add students. You can paste the whole register at once.

Each student now has a row, and a personal sign-in link of their own.

Hand out the links

Two ways, both on the Students tab:

🖨 Print cards — one slip per student with their name and their link. Cut them

up and hand them out. This is the reliable way, and it works with no email and no phones in the room.

🔗 Copy all links — puts the whole list on your clipboard to paste into a

WhatsApp or Telegram group.

A student's first sign-in must be through their own personal link. It cannot be done with the class code. This is deliberate: the class code is public — it's on the board, in a group chat, on a card — so if a name plus the class code were enough to get in, any classmate could sign in as anyone else.

What the student does

Opens their link. They're signed in — no password, no typing.
The app asks them to choose a 4-digit PIN. They should do this straight away.
From then on they can sign in either with their link or with **their name +

the class code + their PIN** — useful when the card is lost or they're on a different phone.

Until a student sets a PIN, the link is their only way in. Chase this on day one.

The class code

Also on the Students tab, next to ✉ Invite students. Students who already have an account use it to add another subject. It is not a way to sign in for the first time.

Careful: your school has a code too, shown in the top bar. That one adds a fellow teacher, not a student. If a student says "the code doesn't work", check which one they were given.

Who has actually started?

The Students tab leads with the number that matters in week one:

👋 7 of 30 students haven't signed in yet — check they have their login link.

The Last seen column tells you Never, Today, 3 days ago, and so on. Never is highlighted, because it usually means the card never reached them, not that they're behind.

Also on each row: streak, completed lessons, and mastery (their average quiz score).

When something goes wrong for one student

Use the ⋯ menu at the end of their row:


Reset PIN	They forgot it. Clears it so they can set a new one — their progress is kept. They'll need their personal link again.
Issue a new login link	Their card was lost, photographed or shared. The old link stops working immediately, so replace any printed card.
Download their record	Everything the app holds about that student, as a file. For a parent who asks, or before removing them.
Remove from this class	If it's their only subject, their account and progress are permanently erased. If they take others, that history is kept.

Lessons

Where lessons come from

Two places, both in Your lessons on the main screen:

Published by ReasonBoard — marked with a ReasonBoard badge. Every school gets

these. You can assign, print and download them; only ReasonBoard can change them, so a correction reaches every class at once.

Your school's own — anything your school has added. These stay private to your

school, and any teacher in your school can edit them.

You don't write lessons yourself; you choose which ones your class gets, and when.

Publishing

A lesson has to be published before students can open it. In your library, an unpublished lesson shows an amber Publish button; a published one shows a green ✓. Click to change it either way.

Publish means you have looked at it and it's fit for your class. Lessons are AI-generated, so this check is the point, not a formality.

Assigning

Open the class → 📚 Lessons tab → pick from the list below, and set a due date if you want one. Assigned lessons appear on each student's home screen.

📣 next to an assigned lesson gives you a ready-made message — lesson name, link and due date — to paste into your class group chat.

If a lesson has a mistake

Report it: Settings → 💬 Report a problem → "A lesson is wrong". Say which question. When it's fixed, students' devices pick up the correction automatically the next time they're online — including phones that already downloaded it.

Practice and mock exams

Practice is untimed. Students see the answer and the worked explanation after each question, and it works offline once loaded. Good for homework and revision.

Going back over a mock exam works the same way, and includes the written-answer questions: the student writes an answer, taps Check answer, and the model answer appears for them to compare against. Nothing is marked — that already happened when they submitted.

Mock exams are timed and sealed: no answers during the exam, no going back once submitted. Build one from the 📝 Mock exams tab. You confirm every question before it publishes.

Before you publish, press 📝 Write worked solutions. Questions taken from your question bank already carry their working; ones built from a lesson's quiz carry only a one-line note, and a student who got a question wrong needs the route to the answer, not the answer repeated. This fills in the missing steps for the whole paper — it takes a few moments on a long exam, and it is what makes reviewing the paper worth doing.

You can also do this after an exam is published, from Results — useful when a student asks why they got something wrong. It only fills in missing working; the questions and the answer key are untouched, so marks already awarded don't change.

Two settings when you create an exam:

Duration — 30 minutes to 3 hours.
Hold results until I release them — tick this if you don't want students

seeing scores until the whole class has sat it.

An exam needs a live internet connection. Practice does not.

Seeing how the class is doing

On the Students tab:

📊 View gradebook — every student against every assigned lesson, with scores,

completion and lateness. ⤓ Export CSV opens in Excel, Google Sheets, or your school's own gradebook.

Class performance — which lessons the class did worst on, weakest first, and

the questions most often missed. This is the fastest read on what to reteach.

Working without internet

Students can save a lesson to their phone and watch it later with no connection — narration included. Their quiz results are held on the device and sent up automatically when they're next online, so nothing is lost.

What still needs a connection: sitting a mock exam, and the first download of a lesson.

For a class with no devices at all, print instead:

🖨 on any lesson → a worksheet with the study notes and questions. Answer key

included for you; students' copies don't have it.

🖨 Print exam on a mock exam → a paper exam paper.

If you forget your password

On the sign-in screen, "Forgot your password?". If your school has email set up, you'll get a link.

If not — and this is the normal case — ask your school admin. They can issue you a one-time reset link from Manage school → your name → Reset password. It expires in an hour.

Getting help

Settings → 💬 Report a problem. Three kinds:

Something's broken — it didn't work
A lesson is wrong — a mistake in the content
An idea — something you wish it did

We see which screen you were on, so you don't have to explain the setup. If you're offline, your message is saved on your phone and sent when you reconnect. Replies come back to the same place — you'll be told when one arrives.