Classroom is a signed-in school inside the community. Language and mail-skill courses sit next to remixable workshops (projects, science, digital citizenship, feelings, and media). Search the hub, or open Your certificates after you finish a course. Suggested next picks a course in the same subject — or German / Portuguese / Japanese if that is your site language. Italian, Dutch, and Korean sit in Languages too. Swap threads, thank-you screens, labels, and packing-this-week link to the matching skill course. Subject tabs run from preschool family packs through college-style overviews: health and nursing maps, nutrition and mental-health literacy (not treatment), criminal justice and corrections civics, fingerprint/DNA/digital-evidence ethics, earth and cells, civics and voting, computers without hacking, art and photo manners, money basics, trades, and college applications. Newer skill courses cover postage-by-country, addressing envelopes, waiting for mail, thank-yous, mail everyone can enjoy, forum etiquette, and Artists corner. Hosts can also write extra courses from Staff desk → Classroom without a code change. Each course has a five-minute pitch, a printable pack, “in the room” scale-up / scale-down notes, lessons that unlock in order, and (except family packs) a remix thread. Quizzes need 70% to pass; exams need 80%. You can retry. Finishing a course puts a certificate on your profile and a count on directory cards. Directory → Has a classroom certificate lists members who finished at least one course. Hosts can nudge learners who paused a course for a week. Home always shows Continue or a suggested course.
Good first courses
- Spanish / French / English / German / Portuguese / Japanese / Italian / Dutch / Korean for penpals — greetings, mail words, a short note, then an exam
- Your first week here — privacy, Introductions, same-age Messages, a buddy, and one first envelope (suggested until you finish mail)
- Invite a friend — share your link, welcome without pressure, and how referral stamps unlock when they mail
- Postage by country, Addressing envelopes, Waiting for the envelope, Thank-you after a swap, Write again after 30 days, ISO and your stash, or Mail everyone can enjoy — rates, readable addresses, patience, thanks, a second envelope, matches, and scent-free defaults
- Home workouts (sketches & videos) / First-aid awareness / Body systems / Nursing map — move at home, then call for help; this is not a medical license
- Courts and rights / Policing civics / Forensic science and DNA overview — civics and careers, not crime how-to
- Civics, computers, arts, and money basics — overviews, not campaigns, hacks, or a shop
- College-ready study habits / applications intro — calendars and honesty; not a diploma
- Family (parents, 18+) — preschool shapes, weather, colors, ABC, counting stamps, story pictures, feelings, four seasons, and play post office at the kitchen table
How a workshop is built
- Five-minute pitch — why it works and how much prep
- Core assets — print the pack (Ctrl+P). Optional https template links only; we don’t host Google Docs or Canva files
- In the room — scale down for extra support, scale up for a stretch
- Community remix — post a variation in Forum → Classroom remix; hosts may feature it on the course page