Tutorial: setting up your first class in Corra
By The Corra team · · 2 min read · Tutorial
Setting up Corra means creating one class and adding its students, which takes a few minutes and unlocks everything else — the roster is the spine every other module reads from. This walkthrough covers what each field is actually used for later, so you can tell what is worth filling in now and what can wait.
Step 1 — Sign in with Google
Corra signs you in with Google and nothing else, so there is no password to create. First-time sign-in runs a short onboarding that captures the subjects and grade levels you teach; this shapes the defaults you see later, and you can change all of it afterwards.
Step 2 — Create a class
Open Roster and create your first class. Name it the way you refer to it out loud rather than the way the schedule prints it, because you will be picking it from a list a hundred times a week.
- Subject and grade level shape the standards suggested later.
- The schedule fields drive the Today view’s sense of what period you are in.
- Skip anything you are unsure of — every field is editable.
Step 3 — Add students
Add students to the class. A name is the only thing required; everything else exists because a later module will use it, and the reason is worth knowing before you decide whether to fill it in.
- Reading level — used by differentiation to pitch a levelled version.
- Accommodations and flags — carried into drafts so a suggestion respects a plan rather than ignoring it.
- Home language — used by family communication to default to the right language.
- Family contacts — used only for drafting messages, and de-identified before any AI request.
Step 4 — Stop there on the first pass
One real class with real students is a better test than three classes half-filled. Use it for a week, and add the rest once you know whether the product earns the time. Nothing about Corra requires a full-year setup before it does anything useful.
What to expect afterwards
Sign-in, the roster and the standards library work today. The teaching modules are landing one at a time, and the app marks each one as available or still in build rather than showing you a page that pretends to work. Import from Google Classroom is on the roadmap, so today the entry is manual.
Common questions
- Do I need my whole roster to start?
- No. One class is enough to see how the product behaves, and students can be added at any point.
- Can I import from Google Classroom instead?
- Not yet. Roster import is on the roadmap and entry is manual today.
- What if I make a mistake?
- Everything is editable, and you can delete a class or a student at any time. Deleting your whole account is self-service too — the delete-account page explains exactly what that removes.