Teachers are managing more devices, more distractions, and more competing demands than ever. Lightspeed Classroom™ is a classroom management platform built to meet that reality — giving educators real-time visibility into student device activity, precise control over web access, and tools that reduce administrative busywork, all from a single dashboard.
Here are the 10 reasons teachers keep coming back to it.
Daily Class Highlights
Good teaching is proactive. Class Highlights makes that easier by surfacing the data teachers actually need before the bell rings.
- Feature name: Class Highlights
- What it does: Surfaces the previous session’s most-accessed sites, block list suggestions, and engagement trends after class ends
- Teacher benefit: Educators can identify disengagement patterns and adjust instruction proactively rather than reactively
Real-Time AI Site Monitoring
AI tools are part of student life now — the question is whether teachers can see it happening. AI Notify answers that.
- Feature name: AI Notify
- What it does: Alerts teachers the moment a student visits an AI-related website and keeps record of web visits even after the student leaves — teachers can monitor usage, close the tab, send a class announcement, or record the students’ screen if usage isn’t appropriate
- Teacher benefit: Supports responsible AI use policies without requiring constant manual surveillance
Class-Wide and Individual Screen Views
You can’t guide what you can’t see. Screen Views gives teachers a complete, flexible picture of every device in the room.
- Feature name: Screen Views (Wide and 1:1)
- What it does: Teachers can view all student screens simultaneously or zoom into any individual screen; browsing history for the full class period and all open tabs are accessible in one click
- Teacher benefit: Full device visibility without physically moving around the room or disrupting instruction
Granular Web Filtering Controls
Not all filtering is created equal. Web Rules gives teachers the precision to open and close access based on exactly what’s happening in the lesson.
- Feature name: Web Rules
- What it does: Teachers block or allow specific websites during instruction; set custom web rules to tailor to the lesson and differentiate instruction for student groups
- Teacher benefit: Precise control over browsing to optimize and differentiate learning
Automatic Tab Limits
Sometimes focus is just a matter of fewer open tabs. Tab Limits enforces that during instruction — then gets out of the way.
- Feature name: Tab Limits
- What it does: Districts set a baseline tab count; teachers reduce open tabs during live instruction
- Teacher benefit: Reduces distraction during key instructional moments and removes burden on teachers to track and manage tabs
Instant Link Pushing
Getting 30 students to the same URL simultaneously shouldn’t take three minutes. With Push Links, it takes one click.
- Feature name: Push Links
- What it does: Teachers send a URL to one student, a custom group, or the entire class with a single action; the link opens immediately in a new tab on each student’s device
- Teacher benefit: Eliminates time lost directing students to navigate to resources manually
Class Merging Across SIS Sections
When your SIS splits one group of students into three separate sections, managing them shouldn’t require three separate tabs.
- Feature name: Merge Classes
- What it does: When a student information system (SIS) splits one class into multiple sections, as it does for all classroom management tools, Merge Classes consolidates them into a single view for the teacher
- Teacher benefit: Manage one unified roster instead of switching between multiple class tabs
Custom Student Groups
Every class has students who need something different. Student Groups lets teachers act on that without disrupting everyone else.
- Feature name: Student Groups
- What it does: Teachers create ad hoc groups for group projects, differentiated instruction, or intervention; groups support the same controls as full-class tools — screen sharing, device locking, and URL pushing
- Teacher benefit: Targeted instruction without disrupting students outside the group
Built-In Digital Hall Passes
Hall passes shouldn’t require a separate app, a paper log, or an extra budget line. In Lightspeed Classroom™, they’re just built in.
- Feature name: Digital Hall Passes
- What it does: Teachers issue and track hall passes directly from the Classroom dashboard at no additional cost; student browsing is automatically restricted while a pass is active; all passes are logged with time-in, time-out, and approving teacher for administrative record-keeping and student safety context
- Teacher benefit: Replaces paper passes and standalone apps while creating an automatic audit trail
Co-Teacher and Substitute Access Management
Shared classrooms need shared tools — with the right guardrails. Teaching Team makes access intentional, not accidental.
- Feature name: Teaching Team
- What it does: Teachers add co-teachers, instructional aides, substitutes, or assistants from the Teaching Team tab; each person is assigned an access level (monitor-only to full control) with optional date ranges
- Teacher benefit: Coverage is always intentional and scoped — the class runs normally regardless of who is in the room
