Quick Search · ⌘K
Search your whole classroom.
Press ⌘K in a live lesson to find apps, formulas, diagrams, word tiles and classroom tools, then drop them straight onto the board. No tab-hunting while your student waits.
Try it. Type in the box above, or pick one:
Why it’s faster
Skip the tab hunt.
On most video platforms, what you need lives somewhere else. In Pencil Spaces, it’s already in the room.
The usual way
- Pause the lesson and open a new tab.
- Dig through folders and bookmarks for the file.
- Share your screen, or download it and upload it again.
- Find your place in the lesson again.
With Quick Search
- Press ⌘K.
- Type “plant cell”.
- Press Return. It’s on the board, ready to mark up together.
It works because your apps, resources and classroom tools already live inside your Pencil Spaces classroom. See how Pencil Spaces compares with Zoom
Follow the curiosity.
In two minutes: a binomial formula, then a plant cell, then word building, without leaving the lesson. Quick Search keeps up wherever the questions go.
One search box for your whole Space.
Apps, your resource library, diagrams, formulas, classroom tools, and Sparky, a few keystrokes away. Before class and in the middle of one. No menus to open. No tabs to hunt through.
Before class
8:52
Scrambling.
9:00
Class ready.
During class
9:17
Need a diagram.
9:17
It’s on the board.
Open it from anywhere in your Space.
⌘K
On a Mac
Ctrl K
On a PC
Search
The button at the top right
Whichever one your hands find first.
What you can find
Type what you need. Drop it on the board.
Quick Search looks across your apps, your resource library, and the tools you teach with, then brings what you choose straight into the lesson.
Math
Math formulas, ready to use.
Type “binomial” and the binomial theorem lands on the board, ready to work through together.
Learn moreScience
Science diagrams to explore together.
A plant cell, a unit circle. Put it on the board and mark it up with your student.
Learn moreLiteracy
Word tiles for hands-on practice.
Tiles your students can pick up and move, for phonics and word building.
Learn moreClassroom tools
A stopwatch, a web viewer, and more.
The tools you reach for every lesson, one search away.
Apps
Every app in your Space.
Canvas, IXL, Wiktionary, and the rest. Type a name, press Return, and it opens.
Learn moreThe basics
Learn it in one lesson.
Type a few letters
Results appear as you type, with the best matches first.
Move with the keyboard
Press ↑ or ↓ to move through results, then ↵ to choose one.
Open an app in one step
Type the app’s name and press Return. It opens right in your Space.
See every match
Your top resources show first. Choose Show all to see the rest in the Resource Library.
Can’t find what you need? Pencil Spaces Support is here around the clock.
Ask Sparky
Search finds it.
Sparky sets it up.
Sparky’s shortcuts live in the same search box, so what it can do is always one keystroke away. Even the things you didn’t know to ask for.
A live class summary, on demand.
The class average, where students are stuck, and a worksheet on it in one click.
Try it in your next Space.
Everything your lesson needs is a few letters away.
New to Pencil Spaces
See it in your own lesson.
Quick Search comes built into every Pencil Spaces classroom.
Already teaching in Pencil Spaces
Press ⌘K in any Space.
Or click Search at the top right of your classroom.
