The things teachers
ask first.

No. Never, for anything. It works identically on a plane.

No. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to log in to, no password to a service somewhere. You open it like any other program on your computer.

In one encrypted database on your computer, plus encrypted backups in a folder you choose. That's the complete list.

The database and the backups are both encrypted. Without your computer login or your recovery passphrase, they're unreadable.

Install Class Phase on the new one, point it at a backup, and enter your recovery passphrase — the one on the card you saved on day one. Before it changes anything it opens the backup, checks it, and tells you what it found. What was on the new machine is moved aside, not deleted.

Four or more words you choose when you first set up — at least fifteen characters, no symbol rules to fight with. You don't type it day to day; your computer login opens the app. The passphrase is for getting your records back on a different computer. Class Phase makes you a card with it on; keep the card somewhere that isn't the laptop bag.

Then keep your computer safe, because the passphrase is the only other way in. Nobody else holds a key — not us, not anyone — which is exactly why nobody else can get at your records either. That's the trade, and the app is very clear about it on the first day.

No. There's no administrator console and no way for anyone else to open your records. Where your school needs something, you print it or export it and hand it over.

No, by design. It doesn't talk to any other system. You print or export what your district requires and carry it where it needs to go.

Class Phase never transmits student records anywhere — there's no vendor cloud and no data-processing relationship, which is the thing most policies care about most. Rules on where records may be kept vary by district; check yours.

No. It organizes the teaching you already do; it doesn't do the teaching.

The Insights screen is plain arithmetic — every flag shows the numbers behind it, and it stays quiet when there isn't enough data to be fair.

Good. Multiple classes, subjects graded independently, one profile per child across all of it.

Yes. The grade setting switches to marks-based grading and kindergarten-appropriate defaults without changing how anything works underneath.

Nothing. It's free — no trial, no tiers, no account, nothing to cancel.

Soon. It's being finished and tested now.

Windows.

One's coming. In the meantime every screen explains itself — what a control does, and what it will cost, is written right beside it.