A note before you open your room
We launched ClassQuip so teachers could run live class in one link without a committee meeting first. If you are trying it this week, here is the only question I care about—and how to reach me when something breaks.
I spent years on support calls where the real problem was never the error code. It was the six minutes before the bell when nothing worked yet. The teacher was alone with thirty kids arriving. The student at home was clicking a link from yesterday. The aide had a walkie-talkie in one hand and a frozen Chromebook in the other. That is the moment ClassQuip is built for—not a keynote slide about engagement.
Savannah and I started this company because those mornings kept repeating. She saw what happened in the building after someone hung up the phone. I saw what the software assumed about your network, your devices, and your patience. We did not want to add another tab to the pile. We wanted one room that still feels like class when Wi‑Fi is imperfect and the cart is full of four-gigabyte machines.
The question I ask after every period
When a teacher writes us, I do not start with “did you clear your cache?” I ask: did instruction start on time? If the answer is no, I want to know what stole the minutes—finding a poll link, admitting kids one by one, a tab that crashed, audio that worked but video did not. Your answer becomes our list. Not a roadmap theme. A specific fix for a specific Tuesday.
Free teacher accounts exist because you should not need procurement to find out if this helps on your Wi‑Fi. Sign up, keep one link for the quarter, run a live day when you are ready—not when a pilot calendar says so. If it saves you one pre-class scramble, it was worth the ten minutes to try.
How to try without betting the whole week
If you have not opened ClassQuip yet, start at classquip.com/demo. Click Start live demo and join from a second device—a phone, a student Chromebook, anything honest. Launch a poll. Share a slide. See if you stayed in one tab. That is the whole test.
When you want your own link, create a free room at classquip.com/signup. Use it on a low-stakes block first. Tell one colleague who will tell you the truth if it feels like more software instead of less.
When it breaks, tell me the boring details
Email hello@classquip.com. I read those messages. Include the period if you can, the device that struggled, and what you expected to happen. Screenshots help. District names are optional. I am not looking for praise; I am looking for the kid who still could not get in after the rest of the class moved on.
We are early. Launch was not a finish line. Every week we ship fixes for what teachers actually hit in class, because that is how I learned this job in the first place—listening until the problem was real, not theoretical.
However you teach this week, I hope the first minutes belong to your students, not to your tabs. If ClassQuip helps with that, keep the link. If it does not, tell us why so we can earn the next period.
— Austin