Publish a class website
Put your pages, schedule and forms on a public address like cs52.classmoji.io
What is a class website?
Section titled “What is a class website?”A class website is a public address for your classroom. Claim a subdomain and the site is live at cs52.classmoji.io, serving the pages you choose, the course schedule, and any published forms.
Publishing something to your students and putting it on the public web are two separate switches. Turning the site on publishes nothing by itself: every page keeps the status you already gave it, and you decide item by item what an anonymous visitor can see.
Claim a subdomain
Section titled “Claim a subdomain”Go to Settings → Website. The Course Website section holds the subdomain field, pre-filled with your classroom slug when that slug is a legal subdomain.
A subdomain is a single DNS label:
- lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens
- starts and ends with a letter or a number
- up to 63 characters
- unique across Classmoji, and names the platform needs (
app,api,docsand similar) are reserved
Availability is checked as you type, so a name that is taken or reserved is rejected before you save.
Choose a home page
Section titled “Choose a home page”The Home page section picks the page served at the root of your site. You have to choose one before the site can be turned on, because a site with no home page has nothing to answer with.
Any page can be the home page. Choosing a members-only page is allowed and sometimes deliberate (a syllabus behind sign-in), so it produces a hint rather than an error.
Turn the site on
Section titled “Turn the site on”Flip Website enabled. The switch stays disabled until a home page is chosen.
Switching it back off takes the site offline but keeps your subdomain claimed, so you can put a course site away between semesters and bring it back at the same address.
What visitors see
Section titled “What visitors see”Each page carries the same status it has everywhere else in Classmoji.
| Status | Who can access |
|---|---|
| Draft | Nobody. The page is hidden from all students. |
| Private | Enrolled students only (requires login) |
| Public | Anyone with the link, no login required |
A visitor who opens a private page gets a sign-in page that names the course, rather than being thrown straight at a Github login screen. Students sign in there and read the page on the site.
Publish the schedule
Section titled “Publish the schedule”The Public schedule section publishes your course calendar at /schedule on the site. Modules marked Public appear there, with their items listed as pages, slides and assignments.
Set the Time zone in the same section. Dates then read in the course’s zone rather than in whatever zone the visitor’s browser happens to be in.
Paths the platform owns
Section titled “Paths the platform owns”A few first path segments belong to Classmoji and cannot be served by one of your pages: app, classmoji, sign-in, schedule, forms and robots.txt. Give a page any other slug and it is reachable at cs52.classmoji.io/{slug}.
Remove the site
Section titled “Remove the site”Remove site takes the site offline and frees the subdomain for another class. Use it when a course is finished and the address should go back into circulation; use the Website enabled switch instead when you want to keep the name.