Why it exists
One child. One place.
Most primary schools run the school day across half a dozen separate systems — one for setting work, another for behaviour, another for portfolios, another for times tables, another for safeguarding, and a folder of photos and spreadsheets holding the rest together. Every one is its own subscription, its own login, its own place to look. ClassDrop is all of it in a single app.
ClassDrop
One app for the classroom and the office, switched on module by module to suit your school.
- One login for every member of staff, every child, every parent
- One subscription instead of six
- One record of a child — work, feedback, reading, behaviour, concerns
- Anything you don't want, the office switches off
What it does
Everything a classroom needs, nothing it doesn't
One page per task, one folder per child, one place for the whole story of their work.
Set tasks in seconds
Title, instructions, due date — done. Add points to switch on grading, attach a resource or a starter canvas, publish now or schedule for later, and lock hand-ins automatically when the deadline passes. Reuse any task as a fresh, editable copy whenever you need it again.
Hand in anything
Children add photos straight from the camera, video clips, voice notes, drawings made in the built-in canvas, files or links — then press one big friendly “Hand in” button.
Feedback that lands
Reply with a comment, a voice note, a sticker, or draw directly on a child's work. Every folder keeps the conversation next to the work it's about — and parents can see it too.
Shared class folder
Every task gets a whole-class space where children can post for their peers — perfect for galleries, show-and-tell and celebrating finished projects.
Gradebook & Markbook
A live grid of who's handed in, who's been graded and how the class is doing — plus a markbook with primary-friendly, colour-coded scales like WTS / EXS / GDS, or your school's own.
Reading log
A simple reading record teachers and parents both write in — books, pages, and a note about how it went, all in one running log per child.
Times tables, assessed
Not another tables game. Every answer a child gives is timed, so ClassDrop can tell the facts they genuinely recall from the ones they are working out — the distinction the whole of Year 4 turns on. Teachers get a recall grid for every child, the facts the class is collectively stuck on, and a predicted check score. The practice that produces the data comes with it — a one-minute sprint, a big number pad, a personal best to beat.
Most schools pay a separate subscription to one of the other popular platforms for this. The practice those wrap in avatars and leaderboards is here too; what a separate system can't do is put six-second recall data next to the markbook, the reading log and everything else you already know about that child.
Ready for the Year 4 check
Switch on check practice and pupils get a proper mock of the multiplication tables check: 25 questions, 6 seconds each, a 3-second pause, drawn from the 2–12 tables in the same proportions the real check uses. Access arrangements match the ones the check offers — colour contrast, larger text, the question read aloud, an audible time alert, a “next” button instead of the pause, or no on-screen keypad — so a child rehearses exactly how they'll sit it. Every prediction shows how much of the 2–12 tables that child has actually met, so a maths lead knows which numbers to trust and which need more practice behind them first.
Behaviour points
Award house-style points for effort, kindness and great work, with class totals and per-child views. Behaviours are customisable per class.
Class discussions
Teacher-led discussion threads for questions and ideas — with every pupil post held for approval in moderated classes.
Portfolios
Star a child's best pieces and they join a portfolio that follows them through the year — a ready-made evidence trail for parents' evening.
Your school, your ClassDrop
No two schools work the same way, so the office decides what ClassDrop is. Behaviour points, discussions, reading log, portfolios, gradebook, markbook, reports, timetables, seating plans, times tables, the class screen, canvases, staff sharing and safeguarding each switch on and off for the whole school — turn one off and it disappears for staff, pupils and parents alike, with nothing deleted and everything exactly where you left it if you turn it back on. And because a teaching head or an office manager who covers a class is one person, not two, staff can hold both roles at once and switch hats whenever they need to.
A toolkit built for the classroom
The Tools section is the teacher's workbench. Start with the class screen — the board you put up every morning, with a countdown timer, an analogue clock, today's visual timetable, work symbols, a traffic light, a scoreboard, dice and a noise meter that listens to the room. The name picker draws from your actual register rather than a list you retyped, and the group maker splits the class into pairs or fours while honouring the keep-apart pairs you already set on the seating plan. Build the board once; open it every day. Build seating plans from the real class list — drag the desks into rows, pairs, groups or a horseshoe, shuffle the whole class in a second, pin the pupils who mustn't move and flag the pairs who mustn't sit together, then put it on the board or print it. Build visual timetables of the school day from big friendly picture cards — display one with the current activity highlighted live, print it for the wall, or send it to your class's dashboards. Sketch canvases without setting a task first and drop them into lessons when ready. And everything worth keeping can be shared with colleagues, so the whole staffroom builds on each other's best work.
End-of-year reports, generated
Design your school's report template once — logo, colours, grade tables, subject comments and attendance, laid out drag-and-drop. Teachers fill in the Markbook through the year, then the office generates a whole class's print-ready reports in seconds. The write-up stays; the mail-merge goes.
Who it's for
Four views, one classroom
Everyone sees exactly what they need — and nothing they shouldn't.
Run the room
Set work, review hand-ins, grade, moderate the shared folder and keep the markbook — from one dashboard that shows what needs you next.
Big friendly buttons
Join a class with a 5-letter code. See “my tasks”, add work with the camera or canvas, beat your times-tables best, and collect stickers and feedback.
Follow along
A simple parent code links you to your child. See their work, the teacher's feedback, how their times tables are coming on, and add to the reading log at home.
The whole school
Manage staff, pupils and classes, set school-wide grading scales and branding, and build report templates for the end of term. Switch modules on and off for everyone, and give staff who wear two hats both roles at once.
Safeguarding first, always
ClassDrop is built for children, so the guard rails are on by default:
- Concern recording, built in — any member of staff can log a safeguarding concern in the KCSIE structure (facts, body map, actions, decisions, rationale, outcome). Only the reporter and the school's designated safeguarding lead can see it, every record has a dated case log and audit trail, records can never be deleted, and the DSL can print a child's full file for the five-day transfer rule.
- Moderation on by default — pupil posts to peer-visible spaces wait for teacher approval before anyone else sees them.
- Language screening — flagged wording is automatically held for the teacher, whatever the class settings.
- Teachers hold the keys — join codes, parent codes, locking tasks and removing content are all teacher-controlled.
- No pupil accounts to leak — the demo keeps everything on the device it runs on.
How it works
From nothing to first hand-in in five minutes
No installs, no setup meetings, no training day.
Create your class
Name it, pick a schedule, and ClassDrop makes a join code like JX4P7. Pupils enter it once and they're in.
Set your first task
Write the instructions, set a due date, attach a starter if you like. Every child gets a private folder; the class gets a shared one.
Review and reply
Hand-ins queue up on your dashboard. Open a folder, leave a voice note or a sticker, set a grade — and share the parent code so home can follow along.
See it with a class already inside
The demo comes pre-loaded with a school, two classes, tasks and hand-ins — pick any account and explore every view.
Open the ClassDrop demo