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Classrooms turn Study Rooms into structured courses. Enroll in a course, follow the syllabus, complete lessons, and track your progress — all inside a Study Room you already know.
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A Classroom is a Study Room with a structured syllabus. Think of it as a course layer on top of a room — the room still has books, discussions, and a community, but it also has modules, lessons, and a clear path through the material.
Classrooms come in two flavours:
🏫 Live Classroom
Instructor-led with fixed cohorts, semester dates, live sessions, and deadlines. Think college course or corporate training program.
🎓 Independent Study
Self-paced. Open enrollment. You move through lessons at your own speed. The syllabus unlocks as you complete each lesson. Think online course or self-guided learning path.
Join the Study Room first
Look for the Enroll CTA
Click Enroll
You are now enrolled
Once enrolled, the room transforms. The syllabus sidebar appears on the left side of the room, showing you the full course structure.
Modules
The top-level organisation. Think of these as “weeks,” “units,” or “topics.” A module contains multiple lessons grouped around a theme. Modules may be locked until you have completed earlier modules.
Lessons
Individual learning units inside a module. Each lesson has a title, description (learning objectives), assigned reading, an estimated time, and optional AI prompts. This is where the actual study happens.
Assigned Reading
Each lesson lists the works (books, articles, documents) you need to read for that lesson. These are pulled from the room's bookshelf. Click any work to open it and start reading.
Live Sessions (optional)
In Live Classrooms, a lesson may link to a scheduled live event — a lecture, discussion, or workshop. The lesson page shows the date, time, and a link to join.
You can navigate the syllabus by clicking any module or lesson in the sidebar. Your current lesson is highlighted. Completed lessons show a ✅ checkmark.
Click any lesson in the syllabus sidebar to open its lesson page. The lesson page is your workspace for that topic — it contains everything you need:
The instructor's description of what this lesson covers and what you should learn. Read this first to understand the goal.
The list of works you need to read. Each item shows the title, author, and a Read → link that opens the work. Read these before marking the lesson complete.
If the instructor has scheduled a live event for this lesson, you will see the date, time, and a link to join.
Some lessons have a linked discussion channel where you can ask questions and discuss the material with other students. Click Open Discussion → to join the conversation.
A rough estimate of how long this lesson takes — useful for planning your study time.
As an instructor or moderator, you create the actual material students work through. The best way to do this is with Room Documents — collaborative, media-rich documents that live inside your Study Room and can be linked directly to classroom lessons.
Room Documents are full-featured, editable documents that support rich formatting, embedded media, and entity linking. Unlike plain text posts or chat messages, they let you build structured lesson content — essays, reading guides, research notes, or how-to walkthroughs — all in one scrollable page.
A single Room Document can include YouTube lectures, audio recordings, PDF reading assignments, images, and external links — all inserted from the room's bookshelf without leaving the editor. Right-click anywhere in the editor and choose Browse Bookshelf to pull in room media.
Use the Entity Relationspanel on the edit page to link your document to characters, places, events, and other room entities. For example, link a Civil War lesson document to “Abraham Lincoln” with the relation “about.” Sage AI can then answer questions using those connections.
Owners and moderators can edit any document. Contributors can edit their own. Every save logs who edited and when — giving you a full audit trail. Multiple instructors can polish the same lesson document together.
Create the document on the bookshelf
Write and format your lesson content
Link the document to your classroom lesson
Add entity relations for AI context
At the bottom of every lesson page, there is a Mark Complete button.
Read the assigned material
Click Mark Complete
Check your progress
Unlock the next lesson
Your progress is always visible at a glance:
📊 Progress Bar
At the top of the syllabus sidebar, a progress bar shows your overall course completion — e.g. “3/12 lessons completed.” This updates automatically as you complete lessons.
✅ Lesson Status Icons
Each lesson in the sidebar shows its status: ✅ = completed, • = in progress, ○ = not started, 🔒 = locked (not yet available).
🏆 Course Completion
When all lessons in all modules are marked complete, you have finished the course. In courses with certificates enabled, a certificate is issued to your library automatically.
Yes. Only enrolled students see the syllabus sidebar and lesson pages. Regular room members see the standard Study Room view — bookshelf, chat, events, etc.
Yes. Each Study Room is independent. You can be enrolled in as many classrooms as you like — each one tracks your progress separately.
Withdrawing sets your enrollment status to “WITHDRAWN.” You remain a room member and can still access the bookshelf and chat. Your progress is preserved if you re-enroll later.
In Independent Study, lessons unlock sequentially — you must complete each lesson to unlock the next. In Live Classroom, lessons unlock on the instructor's schedule. You can always review completed lessons.
If the instructor has enabled certificates for the course, yes — completing all lessons issues a certificate to your library. The certificate is a verifiable Work record with a public URL you can share.
You have several options: (1) Ask Sage — the AI assistant can explain concepts, quiz you, and guide you through difficult passages. (2) Use the lesson discussion channel if one is linked. (3) Reach out to the instructor or other students in the room chat.
Ready to start learning?
Browse the course marketplace, find a classroom that interests you, join the room, enroll, and start working through the syllabus.