For schools & teachers
Newsreel Classroom is an educator dashboard that lets you monitor how students engage with daily briefings, quizzes, and streaks — paired with full access to every story on the app.
2025 Resource of the Year
Named Resource of the Year by the National Association for Media Literacy Education
Case study
In an 11-week pilot across Penn State classrooms, Newsreel became part of students' daily routines.
Participated in the pilot program
Still active after 11 weeks
Said Newsreel was important to their daily routine
Planned to keep using Newsreel after the pilot ended
Average student engagement throughout the program
How it works
Sign up at classroom.newsreel.co and generate access codes for your students. No individual emails required.
Students download the app, enter their code, and complete daily briefings with stories, quizzes, and polls.
Monitor streaks, quiz scores, poll results, and time spent from your Classroom dashboard.
Plans
Any teacher can get started for free. When your school is ready for the full experience, upgrade to a premium plan.
BASIC
Free forever · Any group size
Premium pricing
All premium plans include the full educator dashboard, ad-free experience, complete story archive, teacher guides, and priority support.
Yes. Any teacher can start for free. When your school is ready, premium plans add the full educator dashboard, the complete story archive, and teacher guides.
Create a class, share an access code, and students read on the app. You track engagement — streaks, quiz scores, and poll responses — in real time from the Classroom dashboard.
No. Students join with a class access code — no individual student emails required.
Every story is written by human journalists, not AI. Newsreel is ad-free and we never sell student data.
Whether you're a single teacher or a district administrator, we'll help you get started.
