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The instructor console: roster, assignment, pods and scoring

Tutorial5 min readUpdated July 2026

A netplex. Classroom turns one lab template into a room full of identical, isolated pods - one per student, nobody can see or touch another's work. The instructor console is one page with four tabs that cover the whole session: Roster (who's in the room), Assignment (what they're working on), Live pods (watch everyone at once), and Scoring (grade the result).

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Open Classrooms from the navigation. The Roster tab is where a class starts: add students one at a time or import a CSV of names, and netplex. auto-generates a username and a temporary password for each - built for a room of laptops with no accounts to pre-provision.

Step 1: The instructor console: roster, assignment, pods and scoring
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Click + Add student. Type a name and netplex. issues credentials on the spot - no student needs an email or a pre-made account, and the credentials expire automatically so a class list from last term cannot log in today.

Step 2: The instructor console: roster, assignment, pods and scoring
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The Assignment tab hands out the actual lab: pick a template, choose all students or a selection, and each gets their own private pod cloned from it - same topology, zero cross-talk. Live pods then shows every student's pod status at a glance, and Scoring is where submissions get graded once the session ends.

Step 3: The instructor console: roster, assignment, pods and scoring
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Switch to Live pods to see the whole room at once - who is on track, who is stuck, who has not started. For a full-screen version built for projecting, see the Command Centre.

Step 4: The instructor console: roster, assignment, pods and scoring

Everything here runs on the same lab engine as the rest of netplex. - a student's pod is a real lab with real nodes, not a simulation, so what they practise is exactly what they will do on the job. For a bigger-screen live view built for the front of a classroom, see the Command Centre; for the pricing tier this unlocks at, see Plans, node limits & what unlocks where.