My Classroom - your classroom management tool

My Classroom is a comprehensive classroom management tool that integrates seating plans, attendance, assessment data, and behaviour management into one platform. It allows teachers to create interactive seating arrangements, track attendance, and manage student behaviour efficiently. My Classroom is part of the Arbor Perform package and is accessible to various staff members through the Lesson Dashboard.

What is My Classroom?

My Classroom brings seating plans, registers, assessment data and behaviour management into one place. Create interactive seating plans using drag-and-drop seats, then add attendance and behaviour points directly onto your plan throughout your lesson on a tablet or on your desktop.

There's no need to rely on paper, Excel spreadsheet seating plans or third parties, which are not shareable, hard to edit and require time-consuming data entry. 

My Classroom is built into Arbor, giving you access to photos and contextual data about each of your students right when you need it, plus everything you capture in My Classroom shows up on student profiles straight away.

Where do we find My Classroom?

My Classroom is available to teachers from the Lesson Dashboard, so they can set up their layouts and seating plans at any time before using My Classroom 'on the ground'. Your colleagues can see and use your plans too.

Who can use My Classroom?

My Classroom is included in our newest Perform package. All other Arbor packages won’t have this feature by default. 

Want to upgrade or find out what package you’re on? Just get in contact with our Partnership Team by emailing customersales@arbor-education.com 

Once you’ve enabled My Classroom, let your staff know that they can start using My Classroom. You can still take attendance by clicking Take Register instead. My Classroom is available to any staff member with access to a Lesson Dashboard, which includes:

• Teaching Assistants who have been assigned to the specific timetable slots
• Teachers, academic leads and form tutors of the selected class
• Cover Staff and Supply Teachers
• Administrators, SLT and Attendance Officers

Introduction to the My Classroom pages

My Classroom is split between four views. Whichever view you are on, you can use the zoom bar at the bottom of the page to enlarge or shrink the layout on screen.

The Teacher View

This is the default page My Classroom opens on and is designed to provide at-a-glance information and visual tools for teachers. On this page, you can:

• See your current seating plan and room layout
• Take attendance
• Add behaviour incidents and points
• View attainment information
• See student demographic information, like flags for FSM and Pupil Premium students

The Student view

Switch to the Student View with the grey button in the top-right corner. This page shows a stripped-back version of the room, hiding demographic, behaviour and attainment data so that you can safely show this screen to students.

On the Student view page, you can:

• Take attendance
• Record behaviour points and incidents
• Use the Student Picker

Switch back to the Teacher View with the green button.

The layout page

Open the classroom layout page by clicking the three vertical dots on the right-hand side, followed by Edit room layout. This page allows you to change the number and distribution of seats in room layouts, as well as add new layouts.
 

On this page, you can:

• Set up the layout of the seats in your classroom by dragging and dropping seats or using keyboard shortcuts
• Set up more than one layout, allowing you to switch between seating plans during your class

More on this page here: Managing layouts and seating plans in My Classroom

The seating plan page 

Use this page to assign students to specific seats within your layouts. Seating plans are saved to reuse for other lessons with the same class in the same room.

On this page, you can:

• Create and name a new seating plan
• Create multiple seating plans for one layout
• Reuse layouts for other lessons taught in the same room
• Assign students to each seat

More on this page here: Managing layouts and seating plans in My Classroom

FAQ

How do we enable My Classroom?

1. Read the instructions in the Switching on Guide for how to turn My Classroom on at your school and make sure your settings are correct.
2. Let your staff know that you'll be switching on My Classroom and then actually enable it.
3. Send your staff the instructions for using My Classroom so they can set up their room layouts and seating plans before they start using My Classroom: Get to and open My Classroom

Can we choose not to show profile pictures in Student View?

Yes. Click the three vertical dots in the top right corner of the Teacher or Student Views and untick 'Show student photos whilst in Student View' in the STUDENT TILES section to do this.

This setting is saved for the next time you access My Classroom.