Classroom Screen is a web-based classroom management tool that allows teachers to display essential visual elements together on a shared screen, suitable for screen casting via smart whiteboards, interactive displays, or screen sharing. It integrates a variety of classroom utility tools and widgets into a single screen, allowing teachers to clearly display information without switching between multiple tabs. The tool requires no installation, can be used for free to start (with an optional Pro upgrade), and is highly customizable, suitable for physical classrooms and digital classrooms.
Purpose
Classroom Screen is mainly used for classroom management, helping teachers establish classroom routines, display instructions and schedules, manage student behavior, increase classroom participation, and support online and blended teaching scenarios.
Main Capabilities
- Intuitive dashboard and widget bar: The interface is simple, and widgets can be dragged, resized, and freely arranged; free accounts can save preferred layouts, customize default widget settings, and use annotation tools to draw on the screen in real time.
- Time and task management: Provides a clock (digital or analog format), timer (set countdown), stopwatch (record elapsed time), and event countdown (count down to special classroom events such as quizzes or breaks).
- Interactive and participation widgets: Polling functionality, where students can respond by entering a code at joincrs.com, suitable for quick comprehension checks or opinion surveys; QR code generator, where pasting any URL generates a scannable QR code; random name picker and group maker, used to fairly select students or quickly divide the class into balanced groups.
- Classroom management tools: Traffic light widget (red light means quiet, yellow light means attention, green light means free activity); work mode symbols (such as "quiet," "whisper," "pair work," etc. expectation prompts); noise level monitor, which displays a real-time noise meter through the device microphone, helping students self-regulate volume.
- Customization and personalization: Provides hundreds of backgrounds (themes, educational, decorative, or calm styles), allows uploading your own images or GIFs, and using stickers to personalize the screen; text boxes can be added for daily agendas, instructions, goals, or reminders, and the drawing widget can be used to draw diagrams or annotate notes like a digital whiteboard.
- Multimedia integration: YouTube links can be pasted directly and videos played without switching tabs, while retaining widgets, suitable for embedding lesson clips or teaching media.
- Lesson preparation and organization (Pro features): Save and organize screens into workspaces, create custom backgrounds, save up to 100 student lists, and share with colleagues via public linksShare your screen, access revocation history, and extended customization options, making it easy to create and reuse screens in advance.
- Accessibility and remote learning support: Teachers can share their screens through video conferencing platforms such as Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet for online teaching, display clear visual instructions, maintain interactive elements such as timers and polls, and use them together with a webcam.
How to use it
Classroom Screen runs entirely online, requires no installation, and can be used through Chrome, Safari, Edge, or other modern browsers. After teachers open the webpage, they can select and arrange the tools they need in the widget bar, then project them onto a smart whiteboard, a regular whiteboard, or share them in a virtual classroom. Students usually do not need an account to view or follow the instructions displayed on the screen; some interactive tools (such as polls) allow students to participate.
Use cases
Classroom Screen is suitable for classrooms from kindergarten to high school and runs smoothly on Chromebooks, laptops, tablets, and interactive whiteboards. Teachers use it to set up routines and expectations at the start of class, display schedules and instructions, support independent work with visual cues, increase participation through polls and grouping tools, and also use it in online and blended learning environments.
Limitations
Classroom Screen requires an internet connection to run and does not support offline use. It is mainly aimed at classroom management tools, is not a student grading or LMS system, and does not track student data. The screen is mainly controlled by the teacher and displayed on a shared screen. The free version includes basic tools; the Pro plan provides enhanced features such as saving screens, organizing lessons, and advanced widgets. Details such as specific pricing and subscription costs are not currently provided in the materials.
