Classroom video for K-12 schools
Backpack Education is a video library for K-12 classrooms. Your district approves the videos, teachers choose from that list for each class, and students watch with no search, no suggestions, no comments and nothing playing next.
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Who it is for
One approved video list for every classroom, a log of every change, and the privacy paperwork ready for review.
Choose the week's videos in about eight minutes and open the class with one tap. Nothing to install.
See this week's class videos and what your own child watched, so you can ask about it at home.
On a public video site, that video comes with search, suggestions, comments and more videos lined up to play next.
A child can't look anything up. They open what their teacher packed, and only that.
Backpack never starts another video on its own. What comes after is the teacher's decision.
What a child watched yesterday has no say in what they see today.
There are no comments to read and nowhere to write one.
On the classroom tablet a child taps their own name. There is no profile and no password to forget.
No banners or promoted slots around the video, and no channel to wander into. Just the one thing the teacher wanted.
The teacher opens the tablet. A child taps their name: first name, last initial, their colour. No photo.
Five videos for today, from the district's approved catalog. There is nothing else to find.
The kid player's only exit is "My backpack". How long Jaylen watched goes to Ms. Reed and his parent. No principal or district screen shows it.
Who decides what children watch
1 · The district
Each video is approved for a grade band and subject. Teachers choose only from this list, and removing a video takes it out of every class at once.
2 · The school
For each elementary grade band, the principal picks the principal, the technology director or the district curriculum team.
3 · The teacher
Ms. Reed puts today's videos in teaching order, adds more only from the approved list, and opens a class tablet that shows exactly this list. We call this list the class backpack.
4 · The child and the family
The teacher sees it for the class, and a parent sees it for their own child. No principal or district screen shows it; it leaves these screens only in the district's own data export.
Kindergarten to grade 12
Every class watches only what its teacher chose from the district's approved list. How students get to those videos depends on their age. A K-8 school uses two of these: the classroom tablet in its K-5 rooms, and class codes in grades 6 to 8.
K-5 · elementary rooms
The teacher opens the class tablet with one tap. Each child taps a tile with their first name, last initial and colour, then sees only the videos their teacher picked. There is no search, and Backpack never starts another video on its own. The only button goes back to the class list.
Grades 6-8 · a K-8 school or a middle school
The teacher opens a class session and shows a six-letter code, full screen on the projector if they like. Students go to education.backpack.kids/join, type the code and pick their name. They see the class videos with a due date, a one-line note from the teacher and, where the teacher chose one, the part of the video to watch.
Grades 9-12 · high school
High school students join the same way and see every class they are in, in a layout the school chooses: a syllabus, a week-by-week timeline, a notebook or a dark screen built for video. Teachers can add optional review videos on a shelf, apart from assigned work.
Questions
Kindergarten to grade 12. K-5 classes watch on a shared classroom tablet the teacher opens. Grades 6 to 12 join with a class code the teacher shows, then pick their name. A K-8 school uses both, and a high school uses class codes.
Yes, for new videos. The district keeps the approved catalog, and teachers can use any video in it for their grade band without asking. When a teacher asks for a video that is not in the catalog, the principal decides who approves it, separately for K-2, 3-5 and specials: the principal, the technology director or the district curriculum team. The last two send the request to the district. Until the principal chooses, and for grades 6 to 12, requests go to the principal, who can approve, decline or send them to the district.
No. A teacher picks from videos the district already approved. Only a video that is not on the list needs a request, and the teacher's Requests page shows where each one stands.
About eight minutes a week to choose and order the week's videos, and one tap to open the classroom tablet or start a class session.
A web browser. Nothing is installed. In K-5 the teacher opens each tablet, it stays open for up to 12 hours, and a whole cart can run at once. The same page opens on the computer connected to the projector. Students in grades 6 to 12 can join from any school device with a browser.
K-5 children tap their own tile on the classroom tablet. Students in grades 6 to 12 type the class code and pick their name. No student has an email address, a password or a photo in Backpack.
A parent sees their own child only, read-only: the child's school, class and teacher, this week's class videos, and what the child watched, with the day, the minutes and whether they finished. This is the same for every grade, K to 12. Parents connect with the code on a family letter from the school, then sign in with a link sent to their email. Each school chooses whether a teacher, the office or nobody confirms a new family first.
First name, last initial, a colour, grade, school, class, and which videos they watched, for how long and whether they finished. No photos, birth dates or home addresses. The district sets how long viewing records are kept and can export or delete its data.
The teacher, for the class, and the family, for their own child. No principal or district screen shows it. It leaves those screens only in the district's own data export, and every export is logged.
No. Student data is never sold, rented or traded, never used for targeted advertising and never used to train AI models. We sign your state's student data privacy agreement before a pilot holds any real student data.
Backpack shows no ads and tracks nothing for advertising. Videos play in the video host's own embedded player, which may show a short ad before some videos. Backpack does not choose those ads.
A pilot in one school is free, with no purchase order. After the pilot, your district's price is written in the order form you sign.
Yes. Start a free 14-day trial at education.backpack.kids/try with your school email address. You get one class of your own with ten sample students and a starter set of approved videos for your grade band. A teacher cannot buy Backpack; a school or district does. If your district signs up, what happens to your trial depends on its contract: it may be converted or phased out, and videos you collected can be moved into the district catalog. Nothing moves automatically.
Sign in to the demo district as a district admin, principal, teacher, classroom tablet or parent and follow one video from approval to a child's tap. Or open a sample class as a teacher, with no form.
Backpack shows no ads and tracks nothing for advertising. Videos play in the video host's own embedded player, which may show a short ad before some videos. Backpack does not choose those ads. We sign your state's student data privacy agreement before any pilot. How we handle a child's data · See where your state stands
