Step-by-step Guides

Walk-throughs of common ClassJax tasks.

Getting Started

Edit Settings ~ Important to keep up to date

Update your personal settings, including account details and teaching information. Customize features according to your preferences.

Create a Planner

ClassJax makes lesson planning simple and organized. This guide will show you how to quickly set up and customize your own lesson planner, helping you efficiently manage and track your teaching plans all in one place.

Copy a Planner

A planner can be duplicated for use in the following academic year. This guide provides step-by-step instructions for copying a planner.

Set Up the Classroom

This guide shows how to set up your ClassJax Classroom, personalize your space with custom branding, and easily manage your classes—all in one organized hub designed to reflect your unique teaching environment common across all your classes.

Create a Class

Creating a class in ClassJax is a simple process designed to help you organize your announcements, students, lesson plans, and resources all in one place.

Select Standard Sets

This guide shows how to access, select, and view standards sets in ClassJax, including their unwrapped content, making it easy to connect standards to classroom resources and enhance your lesson plans and curriculum with targeted Google searches.

Admin

Add a Campus

This guide covers adding a Campus in ClassJax, so you can organize classes, faculty, and lesson planners, granting students and parents easy access to a unified hub of educational resources and communication.

Create a Campus Planner Home Page

This guide illustrates the process of combining individual class planners into a unified campus-wide view.

Create a School Calendar

School administrators in ClassJax can create a calendar and add events such as holidays, professional development days, and early release dates. These events will automatically appear in teachers’ planners. Follow these instructions to set up the school calendar in ClassJax.

Classes

Create a Class

Creating a class in ClassJax is a simple process designed to help you organize your announcements, students, lesson plans, and resources all in one place.

Share a Class

This guide explains how to publicly share your ClassJax Classes, allowing you to easily provide students and families with direct web access to class details, resources, and updates through a secure, shareable link.

Create Class Announcements

Use the Classes Announcement feature to create announcements for students and parents. Announcements are an effective way to share information, encouragement, and details about attached resources such as study aids and other helpful documents.

Add Students to a Class

Students can be added to a Class.

Add a Planner within a Class

Add a planner to a class to enable parents to view lesson plans. Follow these instructions to quickly add a planner to your class.

Add Resources to a Class

You can add resource documents to a Class page. Follow these instructions to add a resource from a folder in Documents.

Classroom

Set Up the Classroom

Share the Classroom

This guide outlines how to publicly share your ClassJax Classroom, making it easy to showcase your classes, resources, and personalized branding with students and families through a simple, accessible web link.

Documents

Share a Document

This guide explains how to publicly share ClassJax Documents—including curriculum activities, puzzles, forms, images, and more—by generating easy-access links so students, parents, or colleagues can view and use your resources online.

Add Resources to a Class

You can add resource documents to a Class page. Follow these instructions to add a resource from a folder in Documents.

Create a Standards-aligned Activity

Standards-aligned curriculum activities can be created using Jax. In fact, a carefully crafted prompt can generate a series of activities addressing increased rigor incorporating DoK, Revised Bloom's or Marzano's Taxonomy.

Jax

Write text to introduce a standard

You can design Jax prompts to generate content tailored to specific standards. When a standard and its unwrapped content is attached, Jax automatically recognizes and uses this information. This document explains how to generate student-friendly introductory text for a linked standard within a lesson plan. The generated text is then added directly to the lesson.

Add a Prompt to the Prompt Manager

Jax Certainly! Here’s a revised version using technical writing best practices: Prompts that are used frequently can be saved in the Prompt Manager for easy selection and reuse. The following instructions demonstrate how to add prompts to the Prompt Manager.

Create a Word Find with Jax

With Jax, you can quickly generate and customize word find puzzles for your students. This guide shows how Jax streamlines the process, making it easy to design engaging activities in seconds.

Create a Word Scramble with Jax

With Jax, you can instantly create and customize engaging word scramble puzzles for your students. This guide shows how Jax helps you design fun vocabulary activities with ease and efficiency.

Create a Crossword with Jax

With Jax, you can easily generate and customize printable crossword puzzles for your class. This guide shows how Jax helps you quickly create and share puzzles tailored to your lessons and students.

Create a Standards-aligned Activity

Library

Use Library Documents

Library documents are free to copy to your Document folders. The copied documents are now yours to modify and use in your ClassJax-based Planner, Documents or Classes.

Markdown Options

Create a Header using Markdown

Headers or titles can be created in Markdown fields found in lesson plans, documents and other areas or resources in ClassJax. The headers can have different font sizes.

Format Text using Markdown

Markdown text formatting options include bold, italic, underline, and highlighting, among others. To apply formatting, select the desired text and click the corresponding formatting option.

Planning

Create a Planner

Copy a Planner

A planner can be duplicated for use in the following academic year. This guide provides step-by-step instructions for copying a planner.

View and Print Lesson Plans

This guide outlines the available options for viewing your lesson plans in multiple formats within the ClassJax planner. It also includes instructions for printing lesson plans as needed.

Adjust a Lesson Plan Sequence

This guide details how to quickly adjust the sequence of your lesson plans in the ClassJax Planner, allowing you to easily reorder lessons and customize your teaching flow to suit your classroom’s evolving needs.

Share a Planner

Planners can be made public and shared with peers for collaborative creation and use. Follow these instructions to enable public access and invite collaborators to a planner.

Select a Lesson Plan Template

This guide outlines the procedure for selecting a template to use with lesson plans. Utilizing campus templates helps ensure consistency and standardization of lesson plan formats across the campus.

Create a Lesson Plan Template

Teachers can design custom lesson plan templates to promote consistency and save time. Follow the instructions below to create a new lesson plan template.

Create a Campus Template

Lesson Plan templates can be created for use by faculty across a school campus.

Duplicate a Planner

This guide shows how to duplicate your ClassJax Planner, making it easy to copy lesson plans and resources for seamless adaptation and reuse in the next academic year, saving you time and effort. This can also be accomplished by clicking '+ Add Planner' and then clicking 'From an existing planner.'

Export a Planner

A planner can be exported and saved as a Markdown text file. This guide demonstrates the simple proces.

Archive a Planner

This guide explains how to archive a ClassJax Planner, helping you organize your workspace by storing completed or inactive planners out of view, so you can stay focused on the upcoming year’s lessons and plans.

Add a Planner within a Class

Add a planner to a class to enable parents to view lesson plans. Follow these instructions to quickly add a planner to your class.

View the Coverage Report

This guide explains how to access, view and use the Planner report in ClassJax, making it easy to review your lesson plans, track progress, and gain insights for better planning.

Create a Curriculum Map from Lesson Plans

This guide shows how to turn your lesson plans into a cohesive curriculum map using ClassJax. Discover how to seamlessly connect, organize, and visualize your teaching sequence for more effective long-term planning.

Duplicate a Planner Template

A Planner Template can be copied and customized for use as a teacher-specific template.

Puzzles

Create a Word Find

Creating word find puzzles in ClassJax is a simple way to help students review key terms. This guide shows how to quickly make, personalize, and share your own word find puzzles in just a few steps.

Create a Crossword

ClassJax makes it easy to create printable crossword puzzles for your students. This guide explains how to quickly design and customize crosswords to support learning and review important concepts.

Create a Word Scramble

Creating word scramble puzzles in ClassJax is a fun, easy way to boost vocabulary. This guide shows how to quickly make, customize, and share your own puzzles to engage students.

Create a Word Find with Jax

With Jax, you can quickly generate and customize word find puzzles for your students. This guide shows how Jax streamlines the process, making it easy to design engaging activities in seconds.

Create a Word Scramble with Jax

With Jax, you can instantly create and customize engaging word scramble puzzles for your students. This guide shows how Jax helps you design fun vocabulary activities with ease and efficiency.

Create a Crossword with Jax

With Jax, you can easily generate and customize printable crossword puzzles for your class. This guide shows how Jax helps you quickly create and share puzzles tailored to your lessons and students.

Standards

Select Standard Sets

Add Unwrapped Content in a Standard

Enhancing a standard with unwrapped content, skills, learning targets, big ideas, and essential questions strengthens curriculum alignment and deepens instructional quality, making teaching more targeted and meaningful for student success.

Templates