Help Center

Getting started — your first-day checklist

You can be up and running in about ten minutes. Print this if it helps.

• Sign in at cobaltscience.com/login — email link or Google, whichever you like.
• Open your class from My classes.
• Add your students (first name + last initial is all we need) and print the login cards.
• If your class has 1:1 devices, turn on the 1:1 devices toggle on the roster tab so students stay signed in for 30 days.
• Assign your first lesson — the sequence already matches your school's standards.
• Before starting a unit, launch the pre-test ("Show what you know") so you can see growth later.
• Teach! Each lesson is a short video, a worksheet, and a quick quiz.
• Next day: open the class grid and see who finished.

Signing in (teachers)

Two ways, same account:

• Email link: enter your school email at the sign-in page and we email you a link. It works once and expires in 15 minutes — ask for a new one any time.
• Google: click "Sign in with Google" and pick your school Google account.

"No account found"?

Your email needs to be set up first — by your school's Cobalt admin, or by your purchase email if you bought directly. Ask your admin to invite you, or reply to your welcome email and we'll sort it out.

Adding students & login cards

Roster tab → Add student. We ask for a display name (like "Mia R."), grade, and a simple password. That's it on purpose — we never ask for full legal names, birthdays, or anything else.

Adding many? Paste a list of names (or a CSV of name,password) into the bulk box.

Then hit Print login cards — each card has your class code, the student's name, and their password. Little ones tape them inside a folder.

How students sign in

Students go to cobaltscience.com/join and enter the class code and their password from the login card. No email needed — that's the standard path for K–2 (and works great for everyone).

If your school uses school email accounts or Google for students, your admin can turn those on instead.

With the 1:1 devices toggle on, students stay signed in on their own device for 30 days. On shared carts, leave it off — sign-ins last one school day.

Assigning lessons

Lessons come in your school's chosen standards order (NGSS, PA STEELS, and others), so "next lesson" is always the right one. Assign the next lesson to the whole class, or any lesson to the whole class or individual students.

Each lesson page gives you: the video, your teacher lesson text (students never see it), the worksheet PDF, a supplies list, and the quiz students take at the end.

See who finished — the class grid

The grid shows every student × every lesson. A lesson counts as complete when the quiz is submitted (or when you mark it complete yourself).

Click any cell for the detail: did they watch the video, download the worksheet, how long they spent, and how the quiz went, question by question.

Unit tests & growth

Each unit has a pre-test ("Show what you know") and a post-test ("Show what you learned"). Launch them from the Unit tests tab for the class or per student; close them the same way.

Students get one attempt and never see a score — the tests exist to show you growth. Green arrows show each student's pre→post change, plus a class average. Need to redo one? Reset the attempt from the same tab.

👍 and 😕 — student reactions

After a lesson, students can tap 👍 "I like it" or 😕 "I don't understand." You'll see counts per lesson and who tapped 😕, so you know who to check in with. Lots of 😕 on a lesson also alerts our content team automatically.

Your weekly email report

Every Monday you get one email: who completed what, pacing, students inactive two weeks or more, the questions your class found hardest, and any 😕 flags. The same numbers live in your Reports tab, with CSV export.

Don't want the email? Flip the toggle in your Reports tab — the tab keeps working either way.

MAISBY — the science study buddy

MAISBY answers student science questions using only answers written by our science team — it never makes anything up. If your school has it on, students can ask questions after a quiz and get help on what they missed, and you get suggested talking points per lesson.

It's off by default and controlled per class from your dashboard. For written-answer questions, MAISBY can draft a review for you to send — or, if you turn on auto mode, respond instantly. Either way you can overturn any of its calls with one click. You're always the final authority.

Trials

Trials run 30 days with up to 30 students, and everything works except worksheet and answer-key downloads. When your school (or you, for a family) purchases, downloads unlock and all your class data carries straight over — nothing to redo.

Student privacy, in plain words

We store the least we can: a display name you choose, grade, class, a password, and schoolwork (progress, quiz answers, time on lessons). We never collect full legal names, birthdays, addresses, photos, or parent info — the database has no place to put them. No ads, no trackers on student pages, no selling data, ever. The full policy: Privacy Policy.