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Whiteboard

A board where the whole group writes and the teacher leads: prepared lesson pages, exercises marked by the server, sticky notes with voting and AI on demand. After class everything stays with the group, with a saved version of every lesson.

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Whiteboard

What this module does

17
kinds of content, from a pen stroke to a keyed exercise
60
people on one board at the same time
5
exercise types marked by the server
3
boards per group including the main one, in every plan

The whole group writes at once

Students write from the first minute, and the teacher holds three levers: freeze the board, “selected only” mode and one person's pen. Students can't move locks, frames or the timer, because the server guards them, not a button.

Everything a language lesson needs

Sticky notes, a vocabulary table you can paste from a spreadsheet, mind maps, longer texts with a highlighter, connectors, “Well done!” stickers, images, PDFs page by page, recordings with “Play for everyone”, videos and link cards. Seventeen kinds of content on one canvas.

Exercises the server marks

Gaps, multiple choice, matching, sorting and sentence building are written as plain text. Only the server knows the key: a student clicks “Check” and sees the result at once, while you see the whole group's results live and reveal the answers with one button.

AI within the school's budget

From one sentence of description AI lays out the lesson pages. Selected text it corrects, translates, simplifies to the group's level, summarises, or turns into a vocabulary table, a mind map or a gap-fill exercise. The result appears alongside, and one “undo” removes it all.

Every screen in the classroom

Big-screen mode gives larger buttons for an interactive whiteboard or a projector, full screen hides the rest of the panel, the stylus draws with pressure and ignores your palm, and on a phone the toolbar sits under your thumb. Only people signed in to the school can see the board.

A lesson with the board

From the board you prepare to the review after class.

The board carries a language lesson through three moments: preparation, the class itself and what the group keeps for later.

  1. Before class

    A board ready in five minutes

    • Library and templates Copy boards from your library into a group with one click; the whole team shares the school's templates.
    • Board from AI Describe the lesson in a sentence, AI lays out the pages, and you insert them in one go.
    • PDFs and recordings Textbook pages become lesson frames, and a listening track gets a player right on the board.
    • Exercises with a key Write five exercise types as plain text; only the server knows the key.
  2. In class

    The whole group on one board

    • Everyone writes, you lead The group writes at once, and frames are lesson pages: present them in order while students' windows follow your view.
    • Sticky notes and voting Brainstorm on sticky notes, vote with dots, and use private mode to hide others' answers until you reveal them.
    • Instant results A student clicks “Check” and sees what to fix, while you see the whole group's results live.
    • Play for everyone A recording starts at the same second for the whole group, and a shared timer counts down the task.
    • Projector and stylus Large buttons for an interactive whiteboard and projector, full screen and a pressure-sensitive stylus.
  3. After class

    Nothing gets lost

    • A version of every lesson History saves the board by itself after class, and students come back to copy their notes.
    • Comments on an element A student's question on a specific task reaches the teacher as a notification, and the thread gets resolved.
    • PNG, PDF and print A selection to an image, lesson pages to a PDF or straight to the printer, always in the light theme.
    • The board stays with the group The next meeting starts from where you left off, with two extra group boards side by side.

Who sees what

A module is a permission, and which records may be touched is settled on write, not in the menu.

RoleSeesChanges
OwnerEvery group's boards, the team's libraries and the school's templates.Leads any board, creates school templates and turns whiteboard AI on or off.
MethodologistThe same as the owner: the whole school.The same as the owner: leads boards, creates templates and decides on AI.
TeacherBoards across the school, their own library and the school's templates.Leads their groups' boards: pens, exercises, voting, AI and versions. Only watches other boards.
StudentTheir groups' boards and the versions saved after each lesson. Nothing else.Writes while the board isn't frozen; answers exercises, votes and comments even when it is. Never changes locks, frames or the timer.

The details nobody asks about during a demo

The things that only surface in the third week of working with the module.

What this module does not do
  • a link to the board without signing in - only people with a school account see it
  • AI for students - only the teacher runs AI boards and corrections
  • server-side export - the browser builds the PNG and PDF, and videos and exercises come out as outlines
  • edit links outside the school - only people with a school account write

Yes, that's the default: the whole group writes from the first minute. In the “Who draws” list the teacher has three levers: freeze the board to talk, switch it to “selected only”, or take the pen from one person. On a frozen board students can still answer exercises, vote and comment. What a student can never change (locks, frames, the timer, an exercise key) is guarded by the server, which rejects such a change before it is saved.

It isn't separate. Students sign in with their school account, without creating a second one and without an edit link circulating in chat apps. The board hangs on the group, so nobody has to look for it; the lesson version saves itself based on the Schedule; exercises are marked on the server; and AI works within the school's budget. All in the same licence, with no seats to pay for in a second tool.

It stays. The main board lasts as long as the group, with up to two extra boards next to it; an extra board unused for 30 days is removed automatically, with a warning a week before. History keeps the last three versions: after a lesson in the Schedule, once a day when something changed, before every “Clear” or from a button. Each version lives 30 days. Students see “Boards from lessons” and go back to copy their notes, and a restored version becomes a new board, so the current one loses nothing.

The teacher writes the exercise as plain text, e.g. “I [went] to the zoo”, and the board turns it into fields: gaps with a word bank, multiple choice, matching pairs, sorting into columns or building a sentence. The key goes to the server and is not in the document students receive. After “Check” the server marks each item, the teacher sees the whole group's results live, and “Show answers to everyone” closes the exercise and reveals the key.

Two things. “Board from AI” lays out lesson pages from one sentence of description, with a preview before inserting. The AI menu on a selection corrects mistakes, translates, simplifies to a level, summarises, builds a vocabulary table or a mind map, groups sticky notes and creates a gap-fill exercise that gets a key just like a manual one. Only the teacher can run it, the model receives the group's level and subject without names, and the school has an on/off switch and an AI budget with 40 calls a day per person.

From the teacher's computer connected to the projector or TV: open the board, switch on big-screen mode and the browser's full screen. The board has no link that would show it to someone without a school account, so what the group writes stays in the school.

One board takes sixty people at once, with a presence counter on the toolbar. A stroke being drawn travels over the presence channel and enters the document only when the pen lifts, in one packet, and the server sends out only the changes. That's why the board runs on an old classroom laptop and a student's phone even with thirty windows open.

The team opens it from the group's Details, where extra boards sit next to the main one, and in an online lesson room the group board sits next to the video tiles. Under “Boards” the teacher has their library and the school's templates, from which they copy ready boards into a group before class. A student sees tiles of their groups there and goes straight to the board their group is working on.

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