Questions that teachers ask.
Short answers. If your question is not here, try the product with one text: it is free to start.
Can I make a lesson from a part of a long text?
Yes. Add the full text one time, for example a novel. It is read and gets all its annotations, and it stays in your library. Then make a lesson for each aim that you teach: a theme, an exam question or an assessment objective. A lesson has the extracts of the text for that aim, with their annotations. The extracts are the words of the text, exactly: the product adds no headings and no summaries.
Which subjects and exam boards does it work with?
All exam boards, because you add your own mark scheme and the annotations use its words. It was made for English literature first: poems, plays and novels. It also works for a model answer in maths, science, history and other subjects: an exam question with its answer, marked line by line.
How does it show maths?
As a model answer: each line of working is linked to the mark that it gets, with the reason and the mistake that students usually make. The working shows as typed text, for example x² + 3x − 28 = 0, with each line of working set apart from the sentences. It does not draw diagrams or graphs, but you can add a diagram or a graph as a picture, and the annotations mark its parts.
Is this made by AI?
The first draft is. AI reads your text and your mark scheme and writes the annotations and the questions. Each quotation is checked against your text, and an annotation whose quotation is not in the text is removed. Then you check the draft, change what you want and add your own annotations. Nothing goes to the class until you publish it.
Do students need an account?
No. You set a password for each resource. The class opens the link and enters the password. Students give no name and no email address.
What can I add: files or text?
The two. Add Word (.docx) and PDF files of a maximum of 25 MB, or paste the text. You can also add a photo, a scan or a screenshot (.png, .jpg or .webp) of a maximum of 10 MB: the words are read for you, so check them against the page. Pasted text is tidied for the board: the paragraphs and the line breaks are corrected, and your words do not change.
How do I keep my resources in order?
In folders, as in a file manager: a folder for each class, a unit or a term, and folders inside folders. Each resource also has tags for its level and its topic. The search finds a resource by its title, its subject, a tag or its folder.
How long does it take?
A poem or a model answer takes about two minutes. A play or a novel takes longer. You go back to your workspace while the resource is made, and you can close the page. The resource is in your workspace when you come back.
Can I change a resource after I publish it?
Yes. You can change each note and each question, change the password and unpublish the resource at any time. The class always sees the newest version.
Who can see my texts and my drafts?
Only you. A draft is private. A published resource opens only for a person who has the link and the password that you set.
What is a credit?
Creating a resource uses credits. The number depends on the length of the text: a poem uses about 26 credits and a play of 100,000 characters uses about 160. If a resource is not made, it uses no credits. To read, change, organise and show a resource uses no credits.
What do I get free?
A new account gets 60 credits. That is sufficient for about two poems with your own mark scheme. A new account also has samples for English, maths, science and history. You do not give a card.
Can I stop the plan?
Yes. Select Manage plan on the page Plan and credits of your workspace. The plan then stops at the end of the month that you paid for. Credits that you bought in addition to the plan do not expire.
How do I sign in?
With your email address. We send you a 6-digit code and you enter it. There is no password to remember. The first sign-in makes your account.
Can I print a resource?
Yes. Print it or save it as a PDF from the page of the resource. There are two copies: one for you, with a number at each annotation and then the notes, the questions and the words of the mark scheme, and one for students, with the questions and space for answers.
Can I share a resource with a colleague?
Yes. Make a link for the resource. A teacher who has the link and an account sees the resource, can write a note on each annotation, for example while you teach from it, and can take a copy for their own classes. Your colleague cannot change your resource, and you can stop the link at any time. The link is not for a class: a class uses the class link and the password.
Does it replace my own annotations?
No. It gives you a first draft that is linked to the mark scheme line by line. You know your class and the text. The draft is quick to check and quick to change, you can add annotations of your own, and the result is your resource.
Try it with a text that you teach this week.
60 free credits when you make an account: about two poems. No card.