What Students See and Do in SchoolSpace
| SchoolSpace offers a safe environment for students to learn, play, and connect. It’s a dynamic online campus and classroom built for how students learn and live. Here’s a look at what the student experience feels like inside the platform which is designed to spark belonging, reduce isolation, and make virtual learning feel more human. From student-led exploration to live classroom instruction, students in SchoolSpace feel more connected, more engaged, and more excited to show up and participate. |
A Student’s First Few Minutes in SchoolSpace
When students log in to SchoolSpace, the experience feels simple and familiar, yet full of possibility.
- Their Display Name is automatically populated (First Name + Last Initial).
- They pick an avatar style and color.
- As a first timer, they’ll see a short, friendly intro explaining what to expect.
- They drop directly into a world, not a login screen or silent lobby.
- They turn on their mic and camera to join the action.
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No Zoom fatigue. Just connection from the start. |
A School Campus, Built for Belonging
SchoolSpace gives students a safe, moderated place to explore, connect, and express themselves: during class, between periods, or after school.
SchoolSpace can be customized for your school culture and environment. Here are some of the possibilities your school can enable for students:
- Walk around and interact with friends, classmates and school staff.
- Emote, sit, or dance to express themselves.
- Meet and talk to friends or make new friends!
- Chat and see who’s around.
- Raise their hand and participate in discussions.
- Join structured or open-ended games and activities.
- See a map of where to explore and get real-time alerts of activities that are happening now.
- Take part in virtual field trips, club meetings, science fairs and more.
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Live Classroom Instruction that Increases Participation and Engagement
Now, the same platform students use to socialize has everything you need for live class instruction. No switching tabs, no jumping platforms - just walk into the classroom in-world and start learning.
SchoolSpace’s virtual classroom includes everything you need to make instruction easy, seamless and organized:
- Spatial Video Chat: Teachers and students interact face-to-face in a more natural way. Learn about Spatial Video Chat.
- Recording: Capture a recording of the teacher’s video and screenshare so absent students can review or for future reference. Learn about Recording.
- Attendance Tracking: Effortlessly monitor and record student attendance within the virtual classroom. Learn how to view attendance in Dashboard or open a live in-world list of everyone present.
- Raise Hand: Facilitate orderly participation with a digital raise hand feature and queue system. Learn how students raise their hand or how teachers manage the Raised Hands Queue.
- Spotlight: Maintain classroom order and manage student avatar movement by pinning an instructor’s video during lecture. Learn about Spotlight.
- Breakout Mode: Rapidly assign all world users to breakout groups, enabling audio/video connections exclusively within their assigned group regardless of proximity to group members. Learn about Breakout Mode.
- Optional quiet zones and chaperone settings: Keep learning on track by removing distractions.
- Engaging learning experiences and games: Embed your favorite content or customize our games for your lessons.

Learning that Feels Like Play
Students don’t just log in, they lean in. SchoolSpace offers a robust library of customizable games and experiences that can be added to any world to increase engagement, participation and social connection:
- Multiplayer games and learning journeys encourage collaboration.
- Activities like Quiz Race, Gratitude Garden, or Decorate a Locker spark joy and self-expression.
- Optional class-specific tools like polls enhance instructional flow.
Why It Works
SchoolSpace combines student engagement and instructional excellence to create:
- A sense of belonging through natural, peer-to-peer interaction.
- A sense of purpose through live instruction and learning tools.
- A sense of agency through exploration and play.
It's a place where:
- Students choose to be.
- Teachers love to teach.
- Families feel confident thanks to safety and supervision tools.
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