Build a live engagement tool for your classroom

A teacher used Claude Code to build TeachChat, a free classroom tool with teacher, projector and student views.

Difficulty
IntermediateOur rating
Time to build
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Monthly cost
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Revenue
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Engagement
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What they did

Claude Code wrote it and helped deploy on Cloudflare Workers, D1 and Durable Objects. There are no AI calls at runtime.

How it went

Student names stay in a teacher-owned Drive file; the database uses opaque IDs.

Worth knowing

Keep student data out of third-party AI.

Builder recipe

Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.

Stack

  • Claude Code
  • Cloudflare Workers

Steps

  1. Pick one concept to learn or teach.
  2. Have the agent build or explain it step by step.
  3. Test your understanding by changing parameters or asking why.
  4. Iterate.

Starter prompt

Build a classroom live-chat app: a teacher view to moderate, a projector view, and a phone view for students joining with a code. No accounts.

Tags

Role Teacher
Industry Education

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