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Feature Toggles
Turn features on or off.
How do you teach?
Your policies say one thing, but the tool lets everyone do everything. Feature Toggles let you turn tools such as private messaging or the waiting room on or off for your whole organization or by role.
Your safeguarding policy says tutors shouldn’t message students privately. Turn private messaging off for the tutor role, and the platform follows your policy.
Your online school wants the waiting room in every class. Set it to always on, so no teacher has to remember.
Your company limits certain tools in training. Switch them off by role, or set them as default on or always on to match your policies.
Your district has rules about what students can use. Turn tools on or off by role, so every class Space follows them without teachers policing it.
Set the tools your workshops need as default on, and switch off the ones that distract, for every facilitator at once.
Parents won’t set these. They let your child’s program make sure lessons follow its safety rules, every time.
Free for 2 weeks on any paid plan. No credit card required.
What it solves
- One setup has to fit every role and site
- Can’t see what happens in lessons
- No control over what AI does with students
Helps you
Save time
Part of
Roster & roles
The problem
Policies that the tool ignores
Programs have rules about messaging, recording and AI. When the platform lets everyone do everything, those rules depend on each person remembering.
The usual way
Admins send reminders, write policies nobody reads, and find out about breaches after they happen.
How Pencil Spaces solves it
Feature toggles: enable or disable tools, such as private messaging or the waiting room, organization-wide or by role, as default on, default off, always on or always off.
What changes
The platform works the way your policies say it should.
What it looks like
In practice
An admin sets private messaging to always off for students and the waiting room to always on for every Space. Teachers can’t change either.
In a 1:1 lesson
You switch off private messaging between tutors and students, in line with your safeguarding policy.
In a group class
You set the waiting room to always on for every class, so no class starts with uninvited guests.
In a virtual training
You turn off student-style tools that don’t fit adult training, organization-wide.
In your classroom
Your district turns off private chat for students, so all class messages stay visible to teachers.
In the training room
You set the board tools to default on for facilitators, so every workshop Space starts ready.
At home
Your child’s tutoring company keeps private messaging off, so every message is visible to its team.
