Eliminate professor pain.
Create student opportunity.
ClassAct turns the classroom chores everyone dreads — attendance, laptops, participation, group projects — into a single process that leaves students more connected, more engaged, and more employable.
Works with your Canvas or Blackboard roster. Students own their data — nothing leaves the class unless they say so.
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A warm, wide shot of a full lecture hall from the front — students at desks with ClassAct open on their laptops and a professor mid-gesture, natural light, collegiate feel.
Not a pile of apps. A process.
Most classroom software hands you a drawer full of disconnected tools. ClassAct is one deliberate process instead — designed to lift the work faculty dread off your plate in a way that, at every step, makes students better. Take attendance, keep laptops honest, run peer instruction, score participation, keep the peace on group projects: each chore becomes an opportunity for students to network, engage, and learn.
All you upload is your syllabus and your slides. ClassAct does the rest.
Check-In
Taking attendance is a hassle — and, increasingly, a mandate. ClassAct turns it into a two-second tap: students check into a seat on a live map of your room and confirm the classmates on either side of them. Attendance is verified, roll-call fraud is impossible, and — the part students actually care about — they meet the people they've been sitting next to all semester.
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A phone showing the live seat-map grid — one seat lighting up as a student taps to check in, a couple of neighboring seats marked “verified.”
Networking
Learning forty names isn't quite a pain, but it's a real challenge — for the professor and every student in the room. ClassAct makes a game of it, rewarding students for learning each other's faces and names, and helping you do the same. By week three, nobody's a stranger — and a class that knows its own names simply works better.
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The flash-card name game mid-play — a classmate's photo with the name just revealed and a streak counter climbing.
Lockdown Laptops
Dopamine is a formidable opponent, and enforcing a no-laptop policy is a losing battle. So instead of banning the screen, ClassAct puts something worth watching on it: your slides, synced to wherever you are, with a private space to take notes. When a student drifts off toward the cat videos, a gentle nudge brings them back to class.
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A laptop showing the synced current slide with a notes panel beside it, and a small “come back to class” nudge in the corner.
Automated Active Learning
Peer instruction works — when it's run well, which takes prep most weeks don't allow. ClassAct reads your slides and drafts research-backed think-pair-share questions, then runs the whole choreography for you: pose the question, poll the room, pair up students who disagree, and re-vote once they've argued it out. You get the rich discussion; ClassAct handles the logistics.
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The think-pair-share result — a before/after vote bar chart — with two students at a desk comparing answers.
Group Project Monitoring
Upload the assignment and ClassAct breaks it into manageable tasks, then hands each student team a simple Kanban board to divide and track the work. Built-in accountability — time estimates, contribution shares, and a way to flag work that didn't really get done — keeps the load fair and heads off the group-project disputes that usually land on your desk.
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The team task board: Unassigned → a column per student → Done, each card showing a time estimate, with one card flagged.
Tasty Grading
Grading a stack of forty papers is the loneliest, slowest work in teaching — and students learn almost nothing from the letter that comes back. ClassAct turns grading into a class-wide exercise in taste: students define the standard for the assignment themselves, hold their own work to it, and learn to recognize excellence by judging real work side by side. AI drafts the rankings; your students and you refine them. You stay the judge — the click that publishes every grade is yours — but the reading-every-paper-twice part is over. And the work that reads like it came from a vending machine? The whole room can tell.
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The professor's grading histogram — stacked student avatars in columns with draggable A/B/C grade markers beneath, and two anonymous PDFs side by side mid-comparison.
Participation Statistics
ClassAct quietly tracks the signals that matter — engagement, initiative, leadership, dependability — and turns them into clear statistics. Students see their own numbers as honest feedback on how they're growing, and on what a future employer would notice. You get an objective basis for grading participation, instead of a fuzzy end-of-semester guess.
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The Work Readiness panel — competency cards like Dependability and Leadership carrying “Strong” and “Standout” badges.
Every chore, turned into an opportunity
The same feature that takes work off your plate is the one that moves a student forward.
Your next class, minus the busywork
Set up your room once — about five minutes — then upload your syllabus and slides. ClassAct runs the rest, class after class.