Quickstart
From sign-up to a fully-loaded classroom in about five minutes. This guide walks a professor through the canonical setup; students follow a much shorter version covered at the end.
Before you start
You need a verifiable email address and the year and division you teach (Athenium uses these to auto-enroll the right students). If your institution has already provisioned admin accounts, sign in with the credentials you were given — your role will be set for you.
1. Create your account
Head to the home page and click Get started. Sign-ups run on Clerk, so you can use email, Google, or any provider your admin has enabled. The first time you sign in, Athenium creates a corresponding user record automatically — no separate account setup.
STUDENT. If you're a professor or admin, ask your institution's admin to update your role from the admin panel before continuing.2. Complete onboarding
On first sign-in you'll be asked for the details Athenium needs to slot you into the right classrooms:
- Students: SRN, PRN, roll number, year, and division.
- Professors: office hours and any default year/division you teach.
These fields populate your profile and drive the auto-enrollment that happens when a professor creates a classroom.
3. Create your first classroom
From the dashboard, click New classroom and fill in:
- Course name — e.g. Computer Networks.
- Course code — your institution's shortcode (e.g.
CSE3104). - Year & division — Athenium will invite every student matching these.
Athenium generates a unique six-character invite code (uppercase letters and digits) that students can also use to join manually if they weren't auto-enrolled.
4. Drop in resources
Open the classroom and switch to the Resources tab. Drag a PDF, DOCX, or slide deck onto the upload area; Athenium pushes it to S3 and indexes it for AI document chat. Tag each upload with a unit — students see resources grouped by unit by default.
5. Post your first assignment
Switch to Assignments, click New, and either type the requirements yourself or hit Generate with AI to have Gemini draft them from a short prompt. Set a deadline and max marks, then publish.
Submissions land in S3, attached to the student's record, ready for grading.
For students
If your professor has set up a classroom for your year and division, you'll see it on your dashboard the next time you log in. Otherwise, click Join, paste the six-character code, and you're in.
What's next?
- Inviting students — how year/division and codes interact.
- Document chat & embeddings — make every PDF interactive.
- Grading workflow — close the loop after submissions arrive.