About SortMyClass
SortMyClass is a free classroom group generator: paste your class list, choose how you want it split, and deal fair random groups with a little theatre, ready to present on a projector or interactive whiteboard.
It exists because sorting a class into groups is one of those small jobs that quietly eats lesson time. Reading names off a list feels arbitrary, letting students choose leaves the same people out, and most online tools want an account, a subscription, or your students' personal data before they'll shuffle a few names.
The rules this site is built on
- Student names never leave your device. Your class lists are stored in your own browser (localStorage) and are never uploaded anywhere. There is no server that could see them.
- No accounts, ever. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to remember, nothing to cancel.
- It has to work on school hardware. Old laptops, slow wifi, interactive whiteboards: the whole tool is a single lightweight page that keeps working offline once it has loaded.
How it's funded
SortMyClass is free to use. To cover its costs it may show a small number of ads on the setup screen and on articles, never in presentation mode, and never based on anything you type into the tool. See the privacy page for the plain-English details.
Who makes this
SortMyClass is a small independent project, built and maintained by the same people who read the contact inbox. It started as an answer to a simple question: why should splitting a class into groups need an account, a subscription, or an upload of student data?
Every article shows its published and last-updated dates, and the advice gets revised over time. If something reads wrong for your classroom, say so; it gets read.
Contact
There's no support team behind SortMyClass: no accounts, nothing stored on servers, so there's genuinely nothing to reset, recover, or unlock. But if you've found a bug or have an idea from your classroom, write to hello@sortmyclass.com. It gets read, though replies can take a while.