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Lesson Notes
Ready before class begins.
How do you teach?
The first minutes of a lesson often go to finding files and loading materials. Lesson Notes let you attach notes and resources to each scheduled lesson ahead of time, so everything is ready when it starts.
Back-to-back lessons leave no time to load the next student’s materials. Attach notes and resources to each lesson in advance, and they’re ready when your student arrives.
Opening files while 20 students wait is how a class starts late. Attach the notes and resources to the scheduled class beforehand, and start teaching on time.
Hunting for the right deck while participants watch makes a weak start. Attach the material to each scheduled training ahead of time, and it’s loaded when you begin.
Between periods, there’s no time to find and open files. Attach notes and resources to each scheduled lesson, and everything is ready when the class sits down.
Setting up between agenda items eats into the workshop. Attach the materials to each scheduled block in advance, so they’re ready on the big screen.
Homeschool mornings go faster when the day’s material is ready. Attach notes and resources to each scheduled lesson, so you start without hunting for files.
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 · Save time
Part of
Running the lesson
The problem
Lessons start with a hunt for files
Materials live in email, drives and downloads folders. The first minutes of each lesson go to finding and opening them, and something always gets forgotten.
The usual way
Teachers keep a folder per student or class and open everything at the start, or send links in chat during the lesson.
How Pencil Spaces solves it
Lesson notes and resource attachments on each scheduled event, so lessons start with materials already loaded.
What changes
Lessons that start ready. Materials are loaded before the lesson, so no time is lost setting up.
What it looks like
In practice
A teacher attaches tonight’s worksheet and a note on what to review to the scheduled lesson. When it starts, both are already there.
In a 1:1 lesson
On Sunday you attach each student’s worksheet and a note on what to review. On Tuesday, back-to-back, each lesson opens with its own materials loaded.
In a group class
You attach the reading and discussion questions to Thursday’s class. Students join and the material is already on screen.
In a virtual training
You attach the module slides and the case study to each week’s training event. Each week starts with the right materials loaded.
In your classroom
You attach the lab sheet to Wednesday’s lesson. When second period starts, it’s ready to put on the classroom display.
In the training room
You attach the exercise brief to the afternoon block of your workshop. After lunch, it’s ready on the big screen.
At home
You attach Monday’s math pages and reading to the scheduled lessons on Sunday night. Monday starts without a search through folders.
