Create Virtual Classrooms and Features Overview
PrintThis guide introduces the tools teachers can use to manage a session: the session list, editing a session, managing students and groups, the blackboard, lock-steps, and checking submissions and self-learning records. Each step comes with a screenshot, and the red numbered markers in each screenshot match the numbered instructions in the text.
- Platform: https://app.una.study/
- For: teachers
Note To create a session, and to assemble, start, pause and complete a lesson, see the Teacher Quick Start Guide.
Section 1 Manage Sessions
Step 1The session list
- Type a session name in Title (marker 1) and click the magnifier to filter.
- Click a tag next to Tags (marker 2) to show only the sessions with that tag.
- Tick the box on the left of one or more sessions (marker 4), then click Change status to... (marker 3) to set them all to In Progress, Pause or Complete at once.
- Sessions are grouped by creation time, for example Last 3 months (marker 5). Click a group name to expand or collapse it. Click a column heading to sort.

Step 2Edit or delete a session
- At the top right of the session page, click the pencil icon (marker 1) to edit the session.
- Click the bin icon (marker 2) to delete the session. A session that students have already submitted answers in cannot be deleted.

Step 3Change the title, tags and access
- In the Edit Teaching Session window, change the Title (marker 1).
- Add or remove Tags (marker 2).
- Click Save (marker 3) to save the title and tags.
- Under Shared Access (marker 4), search for a teacher's username or display name to manage the session together. Changes to shared access are applied immediately.

Section 2 Manage Students and Groups
Step 4Check students' status
- The Overview tab lists the students by group (marker 1). A student shown in green is in the session now; the number on the right is the task they are working on.
- Click the icon next to a student's name (marker 2) to open that student's submission report (see Step 5).
- Ungrouped (marker 3) lists students without a group. You can drag students into other groups.
- Load Grouping and Add Students (marker 4): see Steps 9 and 6.
- Random Grouping and Save Grouping (marker 5): see Steps 7 and 8.

Step 5A student's submission report
- Choose Print Selected Submissions Only or Print All Submissions, then click Print (marker 1).
- The report is organised by task (marker 2). Click a task name to collapse or expand it.
- Submission Count and Submission Time (marker 3): click a submission time to view that submission.
- Click Question 1 (marker 4) to expand the student's answer and the AI feedback.
- To change the score or feedback the AI gave, click the score in the student's task cell on the Submissions tab to open the review page; see the Teacher Quick Start Guide.

Step 6Add students
- Click Add Students. At the top of the Select Students window, choose a user list (marker 1).
- Select students in the list on the left (marker 2). You can type above it to filter by name.
- Click Add (marker 3).
- Students in this Session (marker 4) lists everyone in the session.
- Click Confirm (marker 5). New students appear under Ungrouped.

Step 7Random grouping
- Click Random Grouping and enter the group size in Maximum Student per Group (marker 1).
- If some students should keep their current group, select them in the list on the left (marker 2).
- Click Add to move them to the list on the right, which is left out of the grouping, or Remove to undo (marker 3).
- Click Confirm (marker 4) and students are grouped at random.

Step 8Save the groups as a template
- Click Save Grouping to save the current groups as a grouping template for future sessions. Enter a Template Name (marker 1).
- Enter the Maximum Student per Group (marker 2).
- Click Save (marker 3).

Step 9Load groups from another session
- Click Load Grouping and choose another session at the top (marker 1).
- A preview shows the students who will be added to this session (marker 2).
- Click Load (marker 3). This action cannot be undone.

Section 3 Teaching Tools
Step 10Blackboard
Click Blackboard on the session page to open a virtual blackboard in a new tab, ready to project in class.
- Choose the task to explain in Task (marker 1).
- Under Display (marker 2), choose Task Content or Instructions.
- Click Show Answer (marker 3) to show the sample answer; click again to hide it.

Step 11Lock-steps
- Click New Lock-step (marker 3) to add a Lock-step at the end of Class Progress. Drag the lock-step (marker 1) between two tasks, for example between Task 2 and Task 3. After finishing the tasks before the lock-step, students wait for your instruction before they can open the tasks after it.
- Students who finish the tasks before the lock-step see the message "Task 2 is a lock-step. Please wait for teacher's instructions."
- When students may move on, drag the lock-step further down or click × (marker 2) to delete it.

Note A lock-step cannot be the first item, or sit next to another lock-step.
Section 4 Check Submissions and Self-Learning
Step 12Task Submission and marks
- On the Submissions tab, choose Task Submission (marker 1).
- Click Export Score Data (marker 2) to download the whole class's marks as an Excel file.
- Click Browse Submission Reports (marker 3) to open every student's submission report in a new tab (see Step 13).
- Total (marker 4) shows each student's total marks for all tasks.
- Each task has a column (marker 5) showing the student's marks for that task. Click the marks to open the review page, where you can change the score or feedback the AI gave.
- Click Generate in the Indiv. Report column (marker 6) to generate a personal learning report for the student.

Step 13Browse every student's submission report
After you click Browse Submission Reports, the Submission Reports page opens in a new tab.
- In the menu at the top (marker 1), choose All Students – Latest Submission or All Students – All Submissions.
- Click Print beside it (marker 2) to print every student's report in one go, or choose to save as PDF in the print window.
- Under Sort (marker 3), order the students by Display Name, Username or Score; click ▲ to switch between ascending and descending.
- The list on the left (marker 4) shows each student with their total marks. Click a name to see that student's report.
- Contents (marker 5) lists the tasks and questions; click any item to jump to it.
- Score on each task and question (marker 6) lists the marks of each submission, with the marks counted after the arrow and the full marks below.

Step 14Print one student's report
- In the menu under the student's name (marker 1), choose Print Selected Submissions Only or Print All Submissions.
- Click Print beside it (marker 2) to print this student's report only.
- If the student submitted a task more than once, click one of the times under Submission Time (marker 3) to see that submission and its marks. With Print Selected Submissions Only, only the chosen submission is printed.

Step 15Question Response
- On the Submissions tab, choose Question Response (marker 1). For Task Submission, see Step 12.
- Choose a task in the task menu (marker 2).
- Tick Show Correctness (marker 3) to colour answers by whether they are correct.
- Submission Count (marker 4) shows how many times each student submitted the task.
- The columns on the right (marker 5) show each student's latest answer to each question.

Step 16Self-learning records
- On the Self-Learning Exercise tab, the switch (marker 1) turns students' self-learning exercises on or off at any time.
- After changing Maximum self-learning generation requests per student, click Update (marker 2).
- The table shows each student's Last Generation Time and Last Submission Time (marker 3). Click the icon under Question Details or Submission Report to see the student's self-learning questions and submissions.

Tip For how students generate and complete self-learning exercises, see Personalized Self-Learning Exercises. To create one-time login passwords for students (the Login tab), see Generate One-Time Login Passwords for Students.