Frequently Asked Questions

1. Open your school's ClassEdge web address (for example, classedge.yourschool.edu.ph).
2. Click “Continue with Microsoft 365” — teachers always use this button.
3. Enter your school email and password on Microsoft's own sign-in screen.

No. ClassEdge runs in any web browser — there is nothing to download or install.

Click the exit arrow at the bottom-left of the screen, next to your name.

The Dashboard is a summary of your teaching day:

• Greeting by name — shows whoever is signed in.
• Quick stats — students, needs grading, class average, and at-risk.
• Needs grading & closing soon — what needs you today.
• My Classes — a card for every class you teach.

At the top-right of every screen you'll find Search, Messages, the notification bell, and the sun/moon theme switch. Click the bell to see new assignments, updates, and reminders. Mark all as read clears the red dot.

Yes — click the sun/moon icon at the top-right to switch between light and dark mode. Everything works the same in both.

One view of everything — assessments, holidays, events, and announcements — with colour-coded labels for overdue, due today, due soon, event, and holiday. Switch between Month and List views, and use “Add to my calendar” to export it to your personal calendar.

It lets you review your class sessions — punch-in / punch-out against your scheduled times, plus hours, attendance rate, and lates at a glance. You can filter the data and export a full report, a summary, or your schedule.

Open Messages — a simple inbox for chatting with colleagues and students. If you have no chats yet, start a conversation and add people from “Reconnect & discover.” You can also create group chats.

On the News page: campus news appears on the left, with announcements and events on the right.

The Leaderboard ranks activity by total XP for the semester. Early in the term it shows “No leaderboard yet” until activity is logged — that's normal.

On the Courses page. Every class you teach has a card showing its name, students, room, and schedule, with Needs grading and Due today shown on the right.

Click a course card to go inside. Hovering a card also reveals “Change photo” and “Start Classroom.” Inside the class, the Start Class button begins a live session.

• The week laid out by day — plan lessons and activities.
• Materials · Assessments · Students — tabs that switch between the parts of the class.
• “Add lesson or activity” — the gold button for adding new items.
• Start Class — begins a live session.

Click the gold “Add lesson or activity” button inside the class, then pick the kind of item — graded work, a material, attendance, or a live link.

Hover the course card and click “Change photo” to update the picture. The class roster is under the Students tab inside the class.

Click Add material to open the four-step wizard:

1. Basics — name, term, description.
2. Content — drag & drop a file (up to 30 MB).
3. Schedule & audience — when and who.
4. Review — then Publish, Schedule, or Save as draft.

Each row shows its status and term — Published, Draft, or Scheduled. Use the filter tabs (All / Draft / Scheduled / Published) to narrow the list, and the row icons to preview, download, edit, or delete.

Yes — don't start from scratch. Use the Import button to reuse what you taught in a previous semester or copy materials from a different class.

1. Assignment — everyday work students submit: homework, seatwork, outputs.
2. Quiz — a set of questions, often timed; short knowledge checks.
3. Exam — a longer, higher-stakes test.
4. Major Assessment — a large, heavily-weighted project or output.
5. Special Activities — anything graded that doesn't fit above.

Every assessment's score flows into the Gradebook.

Two ways, and both open the same four-step builder:

• From the Assessments tab — click “New assessment” and choose the type.
• From inside the class — “Add lesson or activity”, then pick a type.

The wizard walks you through: 1 · Basics (name, term, instructions), 2 · Schedule & scoring, 3 · Behavior (shuffle, grading, late policy), and 4 · Review & create.

On the questions screen you can set default points, bulk-import, or click a question-type tile to begin writing items one by one.

Auto-graded: Multiple Choice, True / False, Fill in the Blank, Matching Type, and Calculated Numeric.

Rubric-scored: Essay and Document Upload — for these, the rubric criteria must total 100%.

Yes. Under Bulk import, import a CSV or Excel file. Download the template first and fill it in following the header row — the columns depend on the question type — then upload it.

• Draft — saved but not visible to students yet; finish it later.
• Scheduled — appears automatically on its open date.
• Published — live now; students can see and work on it.

Every assessment carries a points value and open/due dates — watch the deadlines.

Yes — you'll rarely build from scratch. Click Import on the Assessments page to reuse one from a previous semester with fresh dates, or copy one from another course.

Rubrics are reusable scoring guides for essays, document uploads, and activities. They keep your scoring consistent from student to student.

Open the Rubric Library — all your rubrics in one place, listed with their subject and name. Search to find one, or click “New Rubric”, choose the course, name it, add a description, then “Create Rubric.”

The passing grade is 75. A blank cell means the student has not been graded yet — it is not a zero.

On the Grades page, pick a semester and course and the grades load below. The page reads from your Gradebook, so set up the Termbook and Gradebook first.

1. Find work to grade — the “Needs grading” card on your Dashboard.
2. Open the assessment — review each submission one by one.
3. Score with a rubric — for essays and uploads, to stay consistent.
4. Enter the score & feedback for each student.
5. Save & release — scores flow into the Gradebook and the final grade.

They are two parts of one page — the Termbook on top, Gradebook below. Set up the Termbook first, then the Gradebook.

1. Choose the term & course — you can assign to several courses at once.
2. Set the Base Grade — a floor for the final grade.
3. Set the Grade Percentage — how much this term is worth.
4. Make all terms total 100% — for example, 30 + 30 + 40.

1. Choose the course & term.
2. K-12 quick setup — apply the ready-made DepEd split, if it fits.
3. Add categories & percentages — Quizzes, Performance Tasks, Exams…
4. Make sub-categories total 100%, then Save gradebook.

Some pieces are school-wide and are set by the IT Admin or Registrar. Check the Getting Started page (in Settings), which shows the school's grading periods and components — and if something is still missing, ask your admin.

1. Click “Take Attendance”, then choose the class.
2. Mark each student — Present, Online, Late, Absent, or Excused.
3. Use “Quick mark all as” to set everyone at once, then adjust individuals.
4. Click Submit Attendance — it's saved to the class log.

The Attendance Report shows totals at a glance — Present, Late, Excused, Absent — plus today's scheduled sessions. Filter by date, then click Apply.

On the Announcements page, choose the class, write a title and message, then Publish, Schedule, or Save as draft. Published announcements also appear in Campus News.

Pick a course on the left and its announcements show on the right — the page says “No announcements yet” until you post the first one.

Three special course groups — COIL Courses, HALI Courses, and CTE Courses — that work just like your Courses page.

If you don't teach in these programs, the pages simply show no subjects yet — nothing is wrong.

To Archived courses — frozen exactly as they were, with scores, modules, and rosters kept, so you can look back any time. The page says “Nothing archived yet” until a semester finishes.

The school's research databases (Gale Research Complete) are under Gale Library. Click “Visit Gale Research Portal” and sign in with your school email.

It's the school's setup checklist — it shows the school-wide grading periods and components configured by the IT Admin or Registrar.

Impact points and your rank are rewards for staying active; badges are encouragements, not requirements. Your profile also shows your student rating and personal info.

Click Edit Profile on your profile page to update your details and photo.