Classfern Help Centre
Short answers and step-by-step help for every Classfern tool: lesson plans, TIPs, templates, classroom tools, risk assessments, reports and Classfern Pro.
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Lesson plans
- How do I make a lesson plan with the Lesson Plan Maker?
- How do I see a finished example lesson plan?
- Can I switch my lesson plan to a different format without losing my work?
- Where are my saved lesson plans?
- How do I back up my lesson plans or move them to another computer?
- How do I download my lesson plan as a Word document?
- How do I print my lesson plan or save it as a PDF?
- How do I put my lesson plan into Google Docs?
- How do I print a blank lesson plan template?
- How do I see a week of lessons, or copy a week to next week?
Get a TIP
Templates and planners
Classroom tools
- How do I add my class list to the classroom tools?
- How do I pick a random name without repeats?
- How do I use the spin the wheel tool?
- How do I make random groups or teams?
- How do I use the classroom timer on the board?
- How does the classroom noise meter work, and is anything recorded?
- How do I make a seating chart, and keep some pupils apart?
- How do I set up the Class Screen with a timer, name picker and instructions?
- How do I pick a brain break or a would you rather question?
- How do I make and print a behaviour or reward chart?
- How do I print certificates for a whole class at once?
Teacher helpers
Trips and risk assessments
Reports and comments
- Where can I find report card comments and school report comments?
- How do I fill in and print the free school report template?
- What does the School Report Writer do, and where is pupil data kept?
- How do I back up my School Report Writer classes?
- How do I send reports to my head teacher for review?
- How do I get full names on reports if I only enter pupil numbers?
- How do I delete pupil data from the Report Writer at the end of the year?
Classfern Pro
- How do I join Classfern Pro?
- How do I log in to Classfern Pro, or reset my password?
- Where do I change my Classfern Pro details?
- How do I sync my lesson plans with my Pro account?
- What is Ask Fern, and how do I use it well?
- How do I post in the Classfern teacher forum?
- How do I find or post a teaching job on Classfern?
- How does the Exchange Finder work for teacher exchanges and class twinning?
- How do school licences for Classfern Pro work?
- How does recommending colleagues to Classfern Pro work?
- Why do I still see adverts when I am a Pro member?
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