"Is this class easy?"
Translation:この授業は易しいですか？
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Semantically? In this case they both mean "easy". In other cases, yasashii carries meanings of "light, kind, relaxing" and kantan carries meanings of "simple, not complex or difficult"
From what I gather saying the class is やさし gives the impression that the class is easy in the sense that it's less strict, more laid back. While かんたん would be easy in the sense that the material is more basic.
やさしい is an adjective and かんたん is a noun. Both mean easy and both work in this sentence :)
Semantically they both mean the same here.
Syntactically, they also both take a copula in the polite form here. If it was informal, however, you could not put "da" after yasashii, only after kantan.
It's a bit complicated but Japanese doesn't have adjectives per se. "adjectives" that end in "i" act like verbs. Other "adjectives" are nouns that can modify things if you add "na"
Speakers often drop the "ha" in quick, informal conversations like this. But Duolingo is correct that "ha" is proper grammar for writing.
