Why MyClassScreen exists
A projected classroom screen does a handful of jobs all day: it shows how much time is left, who is up next, how loud the room is and what students should be doing. Those jobs are simple, yet many of the tools that do them have moved behind subscriptions, school contracts or student log-ins.
MyClassScreen started from the view that these everyday display tools should stay free for any teacher, wherever they work and whatever their school's budget. Open the board, add the widgets you need and project it. There is nothing to buy and nothing for students to install.
The board brings together the tools teachers reach for most:
- countdown and visual timers, plus a clock and stopwatch
- a random name picker and a wheel spinner
- a group maker for random groups and pairs
- a noise meter that reacts to the volume in the room
- a traffic light, text boxes, a scoreboard and a drawing board
- polls, exit tickets, QR codes, dice and quick classroom games
Everything runs in one tab on a projector, an interactive panel, a laptop, a Chromebook or a tablet. If you want to see it before reading further, open the board in a new tab and try a timer.
The board is built around routines teachers already use. A visible countdown helps students who find a numeric clock hard to read. Voice-level and work-mode signals fit CHAMPS and PBIS expectations. A saved morning layout makes the first ten minutes of the day predictable.
Who runs it
MyClassScreen is run by a small independent team. It is not owned by a school district, a curriculum publisher or another edtech company, and pages are signed "MyClassScreen Team" rather than with individual names.
The team builds the board, writes and edits the guides, tests routines on real classroom displays and decides what gets published. A person reviews every page before it goes live. Some drafts are prepared with help from AI writing tools, and our AI use disclosure explains how they are used and what they are never used for.
Feature requests and bug reports from teachers shape what gets built next. When a guide recommends something, it comes from using the board in a classroom setting, and the editorial policy explains how claims are checked.
What is free and how the site is funded
Every widget on the board is free to use, with no premium tier, no trial period and no limit on how many boards you build.
Marketing pages may load a third-party script. The board does not.
| Part of the site | Third-party script? |
|---|---|
| The board at /board/ | Never |
| Blog posts, guides, tool pages, help pages | May load |
Keeping that script off the board means nothing extra loads in front of a class while it is projected. Outside parties do not choose topics or review articles. The details are in the advertising section of our editorial policy and in the privacy policy.
Privacy by design: no student accounts, audio stays in the browser
The board is operated by the teacher and viewed by the class. That shapes how it handles data.
- No student accounts. Students do not sign in, enter details or use their own devices. They look at the screen at the front of the room.
- Names stay on your device. Name lists and board layouts are saved in the teacher's own browser storage, so the board works without sending a class list to us.
- Audio stays in the browser. The noise meter asks for microphone permission and works out volume inside the browser using the Web Audio API. Sound is not recorded, saved or uploaded.
- You can clear it. Clearing your browser's site data removes saved boards and lists from that device.
Schools have their own rules for COPPA, FERPA and GDPR, and only a school can decide whether a tool meets them. What we can do is describe exactly what the board collects so IT staff can make that call. The schools page and the privacy policy give the full detail.
How we build and test
The board is a web app built on standard browser technology, so it runs without a download on Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. It can also be installed as an app on Chromebooks, iPads and touch-screen tablets.
Before a guide describes a setting, it is tried on the kinds of screens teachers use:
- interactive panels, using the built-in browser and a connected laptop
- ceiling projectors connected over HDMI
- Chromebooks, including school-managed ones with locked-down permissions
- iPads and touch tablets
We check readability from the back of a room, touch response on panels and what happens when a school blocks the microphone or full-screen mode. When something only works in one browser, the guide says which one. The full testing and sourcing rules are in our editorial policy.
Contact and feedback
We want to hear from teachers, instructional coaches and school IT staff. Feature ideas, bug reports and corrections all help. If the board is missing something you use every day, or a guide does not match what you see on your screen, please tell us.
- Email: support@myclassscreen.org
- Contact page: what to include in a bug report
- School and district questions: MyClassScreen for schools