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Desmos Classroom is a teaching and learning platform offering a collection of free digital lessons and lesson building tools. Explore our help center articles for tutorials and support on how to get started.

Desmos Classroom

Tips to help you find exactly what you’re looking for.

Searching for activities

How to Run Your First Desmos Classroom Lesson

Getting started: Classroom activities

FAQ: Classroom activities

New language options for students and teachers using Desmos Classroom

Desmos Classroom activities in your language

Collections can help you quickly organize and keep track of all your favorite activities.

Organize activities with Collections

Getting Started

Managing your Desmos Classroom

Import your classes from Google, choose the classes you want to use with Desmos Classroom, and then assign activities to those classes.

Google Classroom integration

Desmos Classroom invitation codes are six-character codes that students use to join a class or a single session.

Invitation codes

Archiving Desmos Classroom classes

Inviting Your Students

The Desmos fellowship invites a diverse and talented group of educators to help shape our understanding of “every student” and their needs.

Desmos Classroom Fellowship

View student work in real time in the teacher dashboard

Using the Teacher dashboard

The powerful conversation toolkit helps teachers encourage mathematical discourse and collaborative thinking in their classes.

Classroom conversations

You’ve always been able to give your students verbal feedback on their work, now you can give them written feedback, as well.

Written feedback

Snapshots: Select and sequence student work

Add a Note component to any screen to begin writing instructions, questions, or anything else you’d like to communicate to your students.

Note component

Teacher Tools

A partnered guessing game, designed to foster the pleasure and power of words, and to develop informal language into formal vocabulary

Polygraph

Students and families can visit the mobile-friendly student homepage to view past activities and to continue opportunities to explore ideas.

Navigating the student homepage

Student experience in classroom activities

When students sign in to a Desmos Classroom account, they'll have the option to resume and view their work after leaving the activity

Desmos Classroom student account

Student Experience

You can create a free Desmos Classroom teacher account using any existing email or an existing Google account.

How do I set up a free Desmos Classroom teacher account?

Accounts

Retired activities

Desmos Classroom engineers develop, test, and monitor our activities in four major modern internet browsers

What browsers does Desmos Classroom support?

Which Desmos Classroom URLs should you whitelist?

Tech Support

Add video captions

With our Activity Builder, you can create your own unique and engaging digital activities.

Getting started: Activity Builder

Computation Layer is the code that allows the different components within our activities to “talk” to one another.

Introduction to Computation Layer (CL)

You can build and edit both individual activities and whole collections with your colleagues.

Manage editors

The Teacher tips feature gives teachers advice on how best to implement an activity on a screen by screen basis.

Teacher tips

Copy previous graphs in Activity Builder

With Desmos Labs, users can opt-in to using these newer features in their activities and classes while they are still in Beta testing.

Desmos Labs

We’ve curated collections of activities that are well suited to asynchronous, distance learning.

Desmos Classroom, distance learning, and you

The Desmos Classroom websites and software have been written to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1.

Accessibility

General

Desmos Math 6–A1 Overview

Desmos Math 6–A1 FAQ

Teachers in our program receive an email before selected lessons that both prepare them to teach that specific lesson.

Just-in-time lesson preview emails

The officially supported browsers, operating systems, and other system requirements.