Most schools and districts are live in two weeks.
About 90 minutes of setup, spread across the first two weeks — contract to first assignment. Here's what that actually looks like, step by step.
Sign the contract, get an admin invite, connect the roster.
After your contract is signed, we create your district record and send your admin invite. From the dashboard you connect Clever or ClassLink — or upload a CSV if you'd rather. Roster sync pulls teachers, students, classes, and grade levels in a single pass.
You'll also choose your state framework (11 options) and invite building admins or department leads. You can force a resync anytime from class settings — no ticket required.
One onboarding call, scheduled around your team.
Every new School and District license includes a one-time 60-minute onboarding Zoom for your team. We schedule it at your convenience — typically after 4pm ET or during school breaks.
We walk through the student experience (assessment, practice, the collection layer), the teacher dashboard (class progress, per-question analysis, mastery checklist), how to build standards-aligned assignments, how to run Class Games and class goals, and the reading assessment windows plus MTSS workflow. Teachers who join later can work through this guide at their own pace.
Students take the Grow — math and reading, once each.
At the start of the year, every student takes the Grow assessment: one for math, one for reading. Students pick their grade, then the adaptive engine places them at their instructional level within that grade band. The whole thing runs in about 20–25 minutes and can be paused and resumed mid-test if the period ends.
Results populate dashboards immediately. There are three windows per year — Fall, Winter, and Spring — and the Winter and Spring windows re-open automatically when the time comes.
Assign standards in the rhythm of your week.
From the teacher dashboard, open Class → Assign. Search by state standard code, domain, or keyword; select skills, set a due date, and push to the whole class or to specific students. Progress updates in real time, and students see a red dot on the notebook tab when new work lands.
When a class splits obviously — some students ready to stretch, others still shoring up foundations — the one-click auto-differentiation option pushes advanced skills to strong students and foundational ones to students who need them.
Weekly data review, in about fifteen minutes.
The Math Data and Reading buttons open teacher dashboards. The Practice tab shows class progress and flags students who ace practice but struggle on tests. Test Results breaks down performance per-question and surfaces discrimination flags.
Mastery shows exactly which standards each student has mastered. Growth plots longitudinal trendlines with a subject toggle. Assign auto-suggests assignments for struggling groups. Every dashboard exports to CSV; student reports export to PDF.
MTSS, tracked where the classroom already lives.
Class → MTSS Tracking lets you group students by support level (Tier 1/2/3), log interventions from start through progress to discontinue, and apply decision rules — fade, intensify, continue. Data is Firestore-backed at the classroom level, so counselors and admins with classroom access see it automatically, no separate tool to provision.
A few small moves that pay off, plus the inboxes that answer.
Take the Grow in class, not as homework — students take it more seriously when it counts. Run one Class Game in week 2; it builds engagement fast. Check the Recommendations chip in Class Progress weekly for focus groupings. Send home a parent note — students usually want to show off their potato. And don't assign more than three skills per week early on; leave room for voluntary practice to happen.
For everyday support, email support@potatoclass.com — we respond within two business days. On-request Zoom walkthroughs and 1:1 screen-share tech calls (roster issues, dashboard questions, data reviews) are scheduled on demand, typically after 4pm ET or during school breaks. District partnership questions go to partnerships@growingstandard.com.
Ready to start the two-week clock?
Request a quote and we'll line up the onboarding call with your contract.