For the arts
For the arts: the yearbook, the newspaper, the band, and the stage.
Homeroom is built by people who ran these programs. The same desktop-class book builder your yearbook staff designs in, a real newsroom where a story moves from a pitch to a reader, a curriculum that teaches on the exact screen a student is working, and fast public online editions anyone can read — one login and one student list for every arts class in the building.
This page names only what is shipped today, and labels anything still coming as early access — never as done.
What every arts class gets
A desktop-class book builder
The same editor your yearbook staff lays out in — real layers, version history, undo and redo, and type controls — runs in the browser with nothing to install. A drama program builds a season program in it; a literary-magazine staff builds an issue. See the platform Shipped
A real newsroom, pitch to reader
A story moves from a pitch, to an assignment, to a draft, through a section editor, to the editor-in-chief, and only then to the reader — an approval chain you can rename but never remove. The discipline a college paper runs on, sized for a high-school staff. How the newsroom works Shipped
A curriculum that teaches on the page
Thirty-four lessons appear on the exact screen a student is working — the editor, the photo screen, the caption box, the newsroom board — each explaining the craft behind the click, with a standards alignment report an administrator can check. See the curriculum Shipped
Public online editions
Every publication gets a fast, public online edition with no trackers — the reader-facing twin of the printed book, for stories that cannot wait for a printer. See a live edition Shipped
Yearbook
The yearbook class, start to bindery
A yearbook is a book on a deadline, made by teenagers. The desktop-class book builder holds the whole of it — the ladder that maps every spread, the pages an editor hands to individual staffers, the portraits that flow in from the same class roster the front office already keeps, and the version history that lets you undo a Tuesday without losing a Thursday.
Because the book, the roster, and picture day are one system on one student list, a name spelled right in the office is spelled right in the index. A portrait retaken on the makeup day replaces the old one everywhere it appears. The staff designs the book; the software minds the parts a tired seventeen-year-old forgets at four o’clock.
- The ladder. Every spread, its section, its deadline, and the staffer it belongs to — the flat plan an editor actually runs the room from.
- One student list. Portraits and names come from the same roster the office keeps, so a name spelled right on day one is spelled right on every page it lands.
- The proof. Version history, undo and redo, and type controls that hold a spread together when six people are in the book at once.
See the platform Shipped
Newsroom
A student newspaper that runs like a real one
The point of a school paper is not the printout; it is the newsroom — the argument over what is worth covering, the edit that makes a sentence true, the sign-off that puts a name behind the work. A story does not reach a reader until it has passed the people who are supposed to read it first.
- Pitch. A reporter proposes the story; an editor takes it onto the budget or sends it back for a sharper angle.
- Assignment. The story gets an owner, a photographer, and a real deadline.
- Draft. The reporter writes inside the same system, not in an email attachment nobody can find on Friday.
- Section editor. The first real edit — structure, fairness, the missing second source.
- Editor-in-chief. The last read and the sign-off; the buck stops at a student, the way it should.
- Reader. Only now does it publish — to a fast public online edition with no trackers, the day it is ready rather than the week the printer is free.
It is the discipline a college paper runs on, sized for a high-school staff, with the adviser able to watch every stage without standing over anyone’s shoulder.
How the newsroom works · See a live edition Shipped
Band & music
Band, music, and every ensemble in the building
Music programs photograph differently than a class picture day: the marching band in full uniform on the field, the concert groups in black, the section portraits, the drum line, the small chamber groups that exist for one semester and then dissolve. That is a photography program of its own — and it is one Homeroom ships.
It runs on the same honest footing as the rest of the platform. Facial recognition is off by default, and a photo is offered for sale only when a family’s permission allows it — the family decides, one child at a time. When the concert comes, a music program can build its own program book in the same desktop-class book builder the yearbook staff uses, and share it as a public online edition families can open from their seats.
- The whole ensemble. Marching band, concert groups, section portraits, and individual headshots, shot and sorted against the one student list.
- The program book. The winter and spring concert programs, the personnel pages, the director’s note — built and printed from the same tool.
- The honest default. Recognition off until a parent opts in, and a portrait for sale only where a family’s permission allows.
Theatre & stage
Theatre and drama, from read-through to opening night
There is no separate theatre product to sell you, and we will not invent one. A theatre program already publishes something every season — the playbill — and the same desktop-class book builder that lays out a yearbook lays out a program just as well, pointed at the stage instead of the hallway.
A drama program builds its season program, its playbill, or a cast-and-crew page: the scene and song list, the headshots, the director’s note, the patron and booster page that thanks the people who kept the lights on. Then it shares the whole thing as a public online edition, so a grandparent two states away reads the same program as the family in row F.
- The playbill. Cast, crew, scenes, and songs, laid out the week of the show and reprinted the moment an understudy goes on.
- The season. One program per production, all in the same builder, all drawn from the same student list of who is actually in the cast.
- The house. A public online edition of every program, and a patron page that gives the boosters their due.
See the platform Shipped
The curriculum keeps growing
The teach-as-you-build coach and its checkable alignment report are live today. The deeper part — the full multi-level journalism course, with units in reporting, interviewing, writing, ethics, and press law, and a year-long pacing plan for each level — is being authored and loaded onto the same engine. We name it as coming, never as available. See exactly what ships today. The deeper course is in early access
We’re honest about what’s shipped
The desktop-class book builder, the pitch-to-reader newsroom, the teach-as-you-build curriculum with 34 live lessons and a checkable alignment report, the band and music photography program, and public online editions are live today. The deeper multi-level journalism course is in early access — still being loaded, and pilled that way until it ships. That is the whole gift: every arts class in one system, and a straight answer about what it does now.