How does collaboration work - and how is it safe?

Classes that are looking to collaborate with another class go through several steps. Firstly, their teacher is verified by us. Secondly, they declare on our collaboration form that they are willing to collaborate. They select another class that is also willing. The two teachers communicate (via our internal system, or by external email) and agree what to do. Our system then lets them link up - a joint class is created with the members of the two linking classes. Under the teachers' supervision, the two classes can collaborate on email or writing activities. Please see our Collaboration Instructions for fuller details.