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Welcome to the Academy Classroom

This training walks you through the Academy portal — how to navigate it, how to watch the trainings, what you're doing on a daily basis, and how to get the most out of your time here.

When you go to the Academy Classroom portal, you'll see a top nav bar with My Courses and Your Progress. Below that are all of your available classrooms. Some may be locked depending on where you are in Academy or your role.

Once you click into a classroom, the layout is consistent across all courses. The left sidebar shows every lesson in that classroom. Some classrooms also organize lessons into sections — you'll see a section header, then the individual lessons underneath it, then another section with its own lessons.

Lesson Layout​

Each lesson follows the same structure:

  • Training video at the top
  • Action step and/or Comment in Slack prompt below the video
  • Training guide underneath — the written companion to the video, covering the same material in a quick-reference format

The training guides also include a copy path button that lets you grab the file path for that specific training's transcript. You'll use this once you have your AI agent set up — you'll paste the path into Claude Code and ask it questions about the training. This won't fully make sense until you go through the AI course setup, but know that the capability is there.

How to Watch the Trainings​

You can adjust the playback speed on any training — 1.5x or 2x if you're comfortable with the material. But some trainings, especially the AI setup walkthroughs, you'll want to go slow. Don't rush. If you blast through everything at 2x, your retention drops.

A multi-screen setup or large monitor makes a big difference. Some trainings involve following along step-by-step, and the text on screen can be small. You'll want the video on one screen and the actual tool on another. Otherwise you're tabbing back and forth and that gets frustrating fast.

When the instructor is walking through something hands-on, follow along live. Click where they click. Build what they build. You'll retain far more that way than passively watching.

Your Daily Classroom Activities​

Every Academy day starts the same way. You go to your onboarding Slack channel and create a thread: "Academy Day #1 — [date]".

As you go through each training for that day, you'll see Comment in Slack prompts underneath the videos. Each one has a copy button — click it, reply in your thread, paste, and type your answer. All of your training comments and action step submissions for that day go into that single thread. Keeps everything organized.

The next day, you start a new thread: "Academy Day #2 — [date]". Same process. One thread per day.

At the end of every Academy day, you record a Loom using your LeanScale Loom account. This is your reflection — talk through what you learned, your biggest takeaways, anything that stood out across all the trainings you did that day. Post the Loom link at the very end of your thread for that day.

The more you put into these Looms, the more you get out of them. Research shows that talking about what you've learned is the best way to retain it. And a few months from now, when all of this feels like second nature, you'll have a snapshot of exactly where you started and what clicked along the way. Feel free to go five, ten minutes — speak your mind.

Getting Your Questions Answered​

If you have a training-specific question, start by asking your AI agent. Every training guide has a file path you can copy and paste into Claude Code. The agent reads the transcript and can explain, clarify, or answer questions about that specific training. You'll learn exactly how to do this once you get set up in the AI course.

If the AI doesn't resolve it, or if you run into an issue you can't solve, post in your Slack channel on the main thread — not in the sub-thread — so your team leader can see it. Tag your team leader directly if you need support.

Pacing​

Everyone learns at a different pace. There's a timeline, but there's also a built-in buffer in week one for you to absorb the material and get through the action steps without feeling rushed.

You'll check in with your team leader every morning and at the end of every day. Use those check-ins to stay on track and get questions answered. Don't stress yourself out — the goal is for you to actually learn this, not just speed through it.