Classica Hub — Complete Build Specification

Core LMS

• Authentication & role-based access
• Course creation & management
• Student enrollment & profiles
• Gradebook with weighted categories
• Assignments with due dates & submissions

School Operations

• Feature flags per school
• Attendance tracking
• Parent portal
• Calendar & events
• Report cards & transcripts
• Analytics dashboard

Multi-Tenant Routing

• Wildcard DNS with auto-provisioning
• On-demand TLS certificates
• Per-school subdomains & custom domains

Enrollment & Tuition

• Application workflow
• Tuition plans & scholarships
• Invoice generation

Onboarding Wizard

• 6-step guided setup
• Curriculum selection
• School branding & customization

Security

• CSRF protection
• Rate limiting
• Honeypot fields
• Input sanitization
• Session hardening

Classical Libraries

• 362 works across 6 curated libraries

Additional

• Landing page & brand system
• Demo school (demo.classica.app)
• Role-based views: admin, teacher, student, parent

Document Management

• Teacher document library — upload once, attach to many
• Per-course resource library
• Student submission uploads
• Supported: PDF, DOC, images, YouTube links, audio
• Future: in-app video/audio recording on assignments
• Storage: DigitalOcean Spaces or local with CDN

Planning Tools

• Weekly lesson plan builder
• Activities: Read, Discuss, Watch, Do, Narrate, Recite
• Resource attachments (files, links, videos, books)
• Assignment generation from lesson plan
• Print-friendly view

AI-Powered Features

• Suggest activities, talking points, articles, videos, books
• Classical Christian worldview filtering
• Year-over-year: "Last year Week 12 you taught X. Reuse or remix?"

Worldview Configuration

• School-configurable: Charismatic, Reformed, Catholic, Evangelical, Non-denominational, Other
• Content filtered through classical education lens
• Trivium-aware: grammar, logic, rhetoric stages

Intelligent Suggestions

• Lesson plan suggestions by subject, grade, week, worldview
• Activity ideas & discussion questions
• Socratic question generation
• Resource recommendations (books, articles, videos)
• Year-over-year lesson intelligence
• Future: student writing feedback, narration prompts

Channels & Messaging

• School-wide channel
• Group channels: Upper/Lower School, Houses, classes, custom
• Ad-hoc groups (room moms, committees, projects)
• Direct messaging & small group chats
• School directory with search
• Role-based visibility
• File sharing in messages
• Push notifications (future: mobile)

House System

• House assignment (students sorted for life)
• House profile page (members, history, patron saint/figure)
• Leaderboard with points system
• Competitions & events
• House group chat (integrated with messaging)
• House-specific activities & chapel rotation
• Admin: assign students, manage points, create competitions
• Dashboard widget for House standings

Year Lifecycle

• Clean year turnover: archive current, start fresh
• "Copy to Next Year" — clone courses & lesson plans
• Archived years remain browsable (read-only)
• Student promotion & graduation workflow
• AI: "Last year Week 5 you taught X. Similar this year?"
• Re-enrollment tied to DocuSign + payments

Contract Management

• DocuSign API integration for enrollment agreements
• Per-family contracts (school agreement + per-student addendums)
• Contract status tracking in parent portal
• Flow: sign → pay → enrolled
• Re-enrollment for returning families
• Parent Account: all contracts, payment plan, balance

Marketplace Payments

• Stripe Connect marketplace model
• Each school gets connected Stripe account
• Tuition plans: monthly, quarterly, annual
• Automatic platform fee (SaaS + optional transaction %)
• Parent billing portal: balance, payments, history
• Scholarship & financial aid auto-applied
• Public: "Start Your School" → Stripe checkout → auto-provision

Family Platform

• $29/mo per family, up to 8 students
• Simplified family-focused dashboard
• Family picks curriculum, worldview, pace
• Lesson plan templates from classical curricula
• Progress tracking per student
• Transcript generation
• Future: co-op features, connect with other Hearth families
• Future: marketplace for curriculum add-ons

Phase 1: CSV Universal Import

• Upload any spreadsheet (CSV/Excel)
• Smart column mapping with auto-detection
• Import students, staff, courses, grades, assignments
• Preview before import with validation
• Error handling with row-level feedback

Phase 2: Direct LMS Migration

• Google Classroom (API integration)
• Gradelink (popular with private/Christian schools)
• Canvas / Blackbaud (larger schools)
• One-click connect & pull all data

Phase 3: Migration Wizard

• Step-by-step guided migration flow
• Connect old system → preview data → confirm → done
• Progress tracking & rollback capability
• Migration report with summary stats

Athletics

Competitive sports with seasons, eligibility tracking, and scheduling.

• Sport/team management with seasons (fall, spring, year-round)
• Coach/sponsor assignment (links to staff)
• Team rosters with student enrollment
• GPA-based eligibility auto-checks
• Practice & game schedules (feeds into calendar)
• Parent Portal visibility

Activities & Clubs

Non-sport extracurriculars: STOA/speech & debate, theater productions, chess club, choir, Latin club, robotics, art guild, and more.

• Activity/club creation with descriptions
• Sponsor/advisor assignment
• Student rosters & enrollment
• Meeting/rehearsal/event schedules (calendar integration)
• Optional eligibility rules (GPA, enrollment status)
• Student profile integration (activities tab)

Feature Flags

• Schools can toggle Athletics and/or Activities independently
• Integrates with existing feature flag system

Roadmap

• Online school component (cross-school virtual classes)
• Live Documents (shared teacher-parent-student docs)
• Mobile PWA (service worker, home screen install)
• Video conferencing integration
• LTI tool integration
• Advanced analytics & reporting
• Multi-language support

Deployed

• CSRF protection
• Rate limiting
• Honeypot fields
• Input sanitization
• Session hardening
• Automated security audits (twice daily, running now)

Planned

• Cloudflare WAF + DDoS protection
• Two-factor authentication for admins
• FERPA compliance considerations