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Customize Your Apps
Your apps, your way.
How do you teach?
Setting up the same apps at the start of every lesson wastes time, and one app at a time rarely fits how you teach. Customize Your Apps: open an app just for you, keep one always available, run several at once, and embed any site that allows it.
Opening the same three apps at the start of every lesson is busywork. Keep them always available in your student’s Space, and open a private one for your own reference.
Your class needs the reading site and the dictionary side by side. Run several web viewers at once, and keep them available even before you arrive.
Training often needs a reference tool and a practice tool open together. Run several apps at once, and keep a private one only you can see.
Students opening the class Space should find today’s apps ready. Keep a web app always available, so it’s there even when you’re not the one starting the lesson.
Workshops need several tools open side by side. Run multiple web viewers at once, and embed any site that allows it.
Keep your child’s favorite learning sites always available in their Space, so they can start without you setting it up.
Free for 2 weeks on any paid plan. No credit card required.
What it solves
- Rebuilding the board before every lesson
Helps you
Teach better
Part of
Apps & content
The problem
Every lesson starts with setting up apps
Teachers open the same tools at the start of every lesson, can usually show only one at a time, and can’t keep a reference app private.
The usual way
Teachers rebuild their app setup each lesson, juggle browser tabs or screen share one tool after another.
How Pencil Spaces solves it
Insert an app as private, make a web viewer always available, run several viewers at once, and import any HTTPS site that allows embedding.
What changes
Your apps are set up the way you teach, and ready before the lesson starts.
What it looks like
In practice
A teacher keeps a reading site always available in her Space, opens a private answer key for herself and runs two web viewers side by side.
In a 1:1 lesson
You keep Desmos always available in your student’s Space. She opens it to practice between lessons, even when you’re not there.
In a group class
You run the article and the dictionary side by side in two web viewers. Students look up words without leaving the reading.
In a virtual training
You open the policy site privately for your own reference while participants work in the practice tool.
In your classroom
You make the reading app always available in the class Space. Students open it first thing, even before you start the lesson.
In the training room
You embed the team’s project board and the client’s website side by side on the big screen.
At home
Your daughter’s Space keeps her typing practice site always available. She starts on her own each morning.
