Who writes and reviews
Guides, tool pages and comparisons on MyClassScreen are written and edited by a small independent team, the same people who build the board. Pages carry the byline "MyClassScreen Team" instead of individual names. We do not publish under made-up personas or invented first-person teacher voices, and we do not add school affiliations, quotes or credentials that cannot be backed up.
MyClassScreen is both the publisher of these guides and the maker of the board they describe. That is a conflict of interest, and we would rather say it plainly than hide it. When a guide recommends our own board, read it knowing who wrote it. When a different tool does a job better, the guide should say so.
Before a page goes live, a member of the team reads it start to finish against three questions:
- Would a teacher be able to follow it during a real class period?
- Does every feature it describes actually exist on the board today?
- Can every number, price or research claim be traced to a source a reader could open?
If the answer to any of those is no, the page is fixed or held back.
How we test widgets on real panels and Chromebooks
Instructions on this site come from using the board, not from reading about it. Before we describe a widget setting or a routine, we run it on the kinds of hardware found in classrooms:
- Interactive flat panels: classroom touch panels, using the panel's built-in browser and a connected laptop.
- Projectors: a ceiling projector fed over HDMI, checked from the back of the room for text size and contrast.
- Chromebooks and laptops: Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, including school-managed Chromebooks where microphone and full-screen permissions can be restricted.
- Tablets: iPads and touch tablets, including the installed app version of the board.
For each widget we check that the steps in the guide match what appears on screen, that the widget is readable at a distance, that touch targets work on a panel, and what happens when a permission such as the microphone is blocked. If a step only works in one browser, the guide names the browser.
What we measure about how the board is used
We describe the widget catalogue from the product itself: what each tool does and which classroom job it is built for. We do not publish "most popular widget" rankings, average timer lengths or percentages of teachers, because we do not have a dataset that would support them. If we ever collect anonymous, aggregate figures, the method, the sample size and the limits will be published on this page before any result is quoted elsewhere.
Some things we will not measure at all: student identities, the content of classroom audio, raw microphone streams or anything that ranks individual teachers. The noise meter works out volume inside the browser and does not record or upload sound.
How we choose and cite sources
Our core rule is simple: a factual claim needs a named primary source, or it is cut, or it is rewritten as clearly labelled classroom experience.
Claims that always need a source:
- prices, plan limits and free-versus-paid features for any product, ours included
- percentages, averages and "research shows" statements
- quotes from teachers, reviewers or companies
- statements about privacy, data handling or legal compliance
Sources we accept, in order of preference:
| Type of claim | Source we use |
|---|---|
| A product's price or features | The vendor's own pricing or feature page, with the month we checked it |
| Classroom frameworks (PBIS, CHAMPS, SEL, morning meeting) | The framework's official materials or the organisation that maintains it |
| Learning and behaviour research | Peer-reviewed papers or books, named in the sources list |
| Browser and device behaviour | Official documentation from the browser or device maker |
| How our board behaves | The live board at myclassscreen.org/board/, checked on the date shown |
Every guide ends with a numbered sources list. Tool pages cite at least one outside source and longer guides at least two.
Experience is labelled as experience
Much of what helps a teacher is practical: where to put the timer, how to introduce a noise meter without turning it into a game. That advice is welcome here, but it is written as what it is. You will see wording such as "in our testing on an interactive panel" rather than a statistic dressed up as a study.
Pricing and competitor claims
Comparison pages say what MyClassScreen does, what it does not do and where another tool is stronger. Prices for other products are taken from the vendor's public pricing page and always carry a month, for example "checked September 2026". Prices change, so a price without a date is treated as wrong.
We do not invent review scores, star ratings, testimonials or user counts, and we do not add review markup to our own pages. We do not use another company's brand name to suggest a page is official or affiliated with it.
Corrections and updates
If you find a mistake, especially about pricing, privacy or how a feature works, email support@myclassscreen.org with the page address and what is wrong. We check the claim against the source or the live board and fix it if it is wrong.
- Small fixes such as typos and broken links are corrected and the page's updated date changes.
- Material corrections, where a fact, price or instruction was wrong, are fixed and noted at the end of the page with the date of the change.
- Feature changes to the board trigger a review of every guide that describes the changed widget.
Every guide shows a published date and an updated date, and the updated date matches the date in our sitemap.
AI use disclosure
Some drafts and outlines on this site are prepared with help from AI writing tools. AI is also used for routine tasks such as checking spelling, tightening long sentences and suggesting headings.
A person reviews and edits every page before it is published. A member of the team checks each instruction against the live board, confirms every source by opening it, and rewrites anything that does not match how teachers actually use a classroom screen. AI tools are never used to create sources, quotes, testimonials, statistics, school names, author names or credentials. If a claim cannot be checked by a person, it does not go on the page.
Advertising and independence
MyClassScreen is free. Marketing pages may load a third-party script. The interactive board at /board/ does not, so nothing from that script interrupts a projected lesson.
Outside parties do not decide what we write:
- They do not choose topics, review drafts or see pages before they go live.
- We do not accept payment for placement in comparisons or "best tools" lists.
- If we ever publish a sponsored post or use affiliate links, the page will say so at the top, before the first link.
What marketing pages load is described in our privacy policy.