For K-12 teachers
Your class sees only the videos you chose from your district's approved list, in the order you set. No suggestions, no comments and nothing playing next.
A sample class with fixed sample data. No form, no sign-in, nothing saved.
Real screens from our demo district. Names are fictional.
Only what you packed, in your order. Backpack never starts another video on its own.
Your week
Before the week · about eight minutes
Open your class page, tap Add from catalog, and choose from videos your district already approved. Put them in teaching order with Up and Down, and take out any you do not need with Remove. That is the whole job.
In class · one tap
One button opens the tablet. It signs you out on that device and hands it to the class, showing only this backpack. Each child taps their name and your lesson is waiting.
Not in the catalog yet?
Paste the video's link and add a note in your own words. It goes to the person your school chose for your grade band:
They approve or decline with a note of their own. Once approved, the video is in the catalog for your grade band. How quickly depends on that person; your Requests page shows where each one stands.
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.
Tablets, carts and the projector
Backpack runs in a web browser, so nothing is installed. Here is exactly how it handles the devices in your room.
Safety, in plain words
Real screen, demo district. Names are fictional.
Who approved it
Pack a class backpack from the catalog.
Approves new videos, grade band by grade band.
Keeps the catalog. If it removes a video, it leaves every backpack at once.
You don't lose anything
Families
A family sees this week's class backpack and what their own child watched, so the conversation at pickup starts from your lesson. Your school decides whether a teacher, the office or nobody confirms each new family. If it is you, you check that the name matches.
Your principal decides
A one-page summary you can forward or print. It says what Backpack is, what you would do, what your principal would do, and what it costs.
The email opens in your own mail program. Nothing is sent from this site.
Backpack Education · one-page summary
Try a sample class: education.backpack.kids/teachers/sample · Pricing and pilot: education.backpack.kids/pricing-and-pilot
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.
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.
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.
Open a sample class as Ms. Reed: reorder the backpack, then open the tablet and watch it the way a child does. Fixed sample data, nothing saved.
