Create your first Study Guide

A Study Guide is a lesson notebook you build once and use everywhere — in a live lesson, as homework, or as a public link your students can open without an account. It mixes formatted text, images, video, audio, tables, and seven kinds of interactive exercises into a single page that you control.

This article covers the basics: where to find Study Guides, how to create one, and what each plan allows. For exercise widgets, see Add interactive exercises to a Study Guide. To open a Study Guide in a live lesson, see Use a Study Guide during a lesson.

Where to find Study Guides

Open Materials → Study Guide in the sidebar. The page lists every Study Guide in your workspace, with a search box, sort, + Create button, and a view toggle in the top-right.

The two views show the same data:

• Grid view (default) — large tiles with cover image, title, file size, and "Modified Nh ago". Best for browsing.
• List view — a table with Name | Last modified | Created | Type | Size. Best for finding a specific guide by date or sorting by size.

The default sort is By creation date. Change it from the dropdown above the table.

Create a new Study Guide

1. Click + Create. Class Spot creates an empty Study Guide titled "New Study Guide" and opens it for editing.
2. Click the title and type your own. The title saves automatically when you click away.
3. Hover above the title and click Add cover to upload a cover image. Maximum size 5 MB; supported formats are JPG, JPEG, PNG, and WEBP. The cover shows on the list page and on the public share link.
4. Click into the body and start typing. Press / to open the slash menu, or use the Quick start buttons at the bottom of an empty guide.

The whole document saves automatically as you type — there is no Save button. If you close the tab or lose your connection mid-edit, your latest typing is safe up to about one second before the disconnect.

What you can add to a Study Guide

Press / anywhere in the body to open the slash menu. The menu has three groups:

• Basic — paragraph, heading, bullet list, numbered list, table.
• Media — image, video, audio, and a Cloud picker that pulls from files you've already uploaded under Materials → Cloud.
• Interactive — quiz, find pair, sentence, select answer, input answer, drag answer, and open question (free validation). Available on every plan, including Free.

On a fresh empty guide you also see a Quick start panel at the bottom of the editor with one-click buttons for the most common blocks. The panel disappears as soon as you add anything; press / to bring up the slash menu instead.

For a full tour of the seven interactive widget types, see Add interactive exercises to a Study Guide.

Plan limits at a glance

For the full plan comparison, see Compare Class Spot plans.

Organize with folders

If you have more than a handful of guides, group them into folders. Click + next to Materials in the sidebar to create one; the folder shows up in both the sidebar and the list page. Drag a Study Guide tile into a folder, or open the kebab menu on any row and pick Move.

Folders are a Solo Pro feature. On the Free plan the + button still appears, but clicking it opens an upgrade prompt instead of creating a folder.

Tips

• Reuse, don't rebuild. A Study Guide stays in your library forever — open it again next week, duplicate it for a different class, or share the public link with a new student. You don't need to copy content between lessons.
• Cover image earns its keep. A clear cover makes the list page scannable when you have ten guides. Use the topic name in big letters or a single representative illustration.
• Outline first, exercises later. Type the whole text first, then go back and replace key sentences with interactive widgets. It reads better than building one widget at a time.

What to do if it doesn't work

The editor won't open or shows a loading spinner. Refresh the page (Ctrl/Cmd + R). The editor caches the document locally; a refresh forces a fresh load.

My cover image won't upload. Check the file is under 5 MB and in JPG, JPEG, PNG, or WEBP format. Other formats are not accepted. If you're under the limit and still see an error, try a different image to rule out a corrupted file.

I see "You can no longer create Study Guides" when I click + Create. You're on the Free plan and have reached the three-guide cap. Delete an old guide from the list page (kebab → Delete) to free up a slot, or upgrade to Solo Pro for unlimited guides.

Still stuck? Contact us via the in-product chat (the green bubble in the bottom-right of your cabinet) or info@classpot.com.

Related articles

• Add interactive exercises to a Study Guide
• Use a Study Guide during a lesson
• Share a Study Guide or assign it as homework
• Compare Class Spot plans