Teacher Help: Class Blocks Guide for Teachers
We consider a school’s teachers, its best asset. To highlight the teachers, we create a beautiful and fun to navigate Staff Listing page.
SchoolBlocks offers teachers their own simplified web solution called ClassBlocks. ClassBlocks pages are just pages that live within a teacher's profile card. The functionality of these pages is the same as every other page on the site. Use the "+" sign to add blocks as needed. Drag, drop, and resize like you would a window on your desktop computer.
Each teacher has a profile card that holds easily customizable information such as a photo, title, contact information and bio. From within the card, a teacher can also create a new ClassBlocks page. They can also create links to 3rd party sites and URLS.
Editing your card information:
- Login using your school email account
- Go to the Staff Listing page and find your profile card. They are listed alphabetically on the page
- Being logged in will give you permissions to edit your profile card. DO NOT CHANGE THE EMAIL OR THE NAME. That must be done from your district G-Suite by your district Google Admin.
- Inserting a thoughtful bio is a tremendous help to the school and your own identity goals within your school community.
Create your own ClassBlocks page or link to a site you already use.
Look for two buttons near the bottom of your profile card.
Click the “Create New ClassBlocks Page” button near the bottom of your profile card. Once this button is clicked, you will be asked to type in a title of your classroom. This creates a bold button on your profile card that opens your new classroom page.
If you have a classroom website on a different platform (Weebly, Wix, Wordpress, Google Sites), you may click the button “Create New Link To A Site.” A window will appear asking for a title and a URL. This creates a button that sends visitors to the linked site. Once your class is created, you’ll access it via its button found near the bottom of your profile card.
To create new content on your ClassBlocks site you will click on the classroom that you wish to add new content to. From there you will want to locate the "+" button on the bottom left menu. This will allow you to add all of the same blocks that you would normally see on a School Blocks site. More information about blocks and the grid are located here. “ managing your grid.”
The following are a few suggestions to help you get started with adding blocks.
Message Block:
Add a title and a message, for example, “Welcome to my Classblocks page.” Feel free to add additional messages or add a background image!
Files Block:
Link a folder from Google Drive with ClassBlocks.
Select a file or folder from within your Google Drive. Right click on the selected item then click get link. Next, click on share settings and allow ‘anyone with the link can view’. If you need more help with finding and changing the share settings please refer to this article. Then copy the share-link and paste the URL into the “Files Block” URL field.
Click HERE to view our Youtube channel that provides a demonstration of all block types
Live Support
Click on the "?" button in the bottom right corner to access a Live Chat, our help portal, or contact information. The SchoolBlocks support team is here to help!