Create a class

Choose New classroom in the Instructor Dashboard sidebar. It takes about a minute. Every class uses QuickBooks® Online Step-by-Step; you only pick which plan of it the class teaches.

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   Choose Real classroom

   Practice classroom, the first card, makes a demo class full of sample students instead. If Real classroom has a padlock, choose it, say who you are setting this up for, and choose Continue: free, instant, no review.

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   Choose which book the class teaches

   Under Which book does this classroom teach?: Standard (where every class starts) is every chapter, adding job costing, inventory, year-end, payroll and the capstone in companies your students build in QuickBooks® Online (a free Intuit Education invite works). Lite is Chapters 1–8 plus two bonus chapters, all in QuickBooks®' free Test Drive company, so students need no QuickBooks® account. Switch the whole class later with Class type at the top of its page.

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   Name the class

   Pick a name you'll keep, like Accounting 101, Fall 2026. You can't rename a class yourself yet; ask us if you need to.

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   Decide about Show exercise answers once students have tried

   Ticked (the default), the exercises' fill-in answers and the smart grader's expected figures show after a first try. Unticked, they never show. Change it later under Exercise answer support in Class settings; chapter quizzes and exams have their own settings there.

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   Choose Create classroom

   Your class opens with its join code ready to share.

What a new class starts with

Smart grading for graded exercises, Classic reader only and Track student progress come from Your class defaults, on All classrooms. Set those before you create your sections. You can change any of them later in each class's Class settings.

Next

• Pick your chapters with Assignments. See Choose which chapters your class works on.
• Invite your students. See Invite students.