What is Pencil Spaces for Learning & Development?

Pencil Spaces is a purpose-built virtual classroom for live training, onboarding, software training, AI upskilling, and enablement. Every session happens in a persistent Space that can run the work itself: a native whiteboard, real software with shared control on collaborative virtual machines, collaborative AI chats with every major engine, breakout rooms, 1,000+ embedded tools, and one composite recording for your LMS.

How is it different from running training on our meeting tool?

In most meeting tools, one person teaches while everyone else watches. Pencil Spaces lets everyone contribute simultaneously. In a Space, all twenty learners have their own keyboard: everyone works the board, drives the real software, and prompts the AI at the same time. The same hour produces roughly fifteen times the hands-on practice, the work is saved between sessions, and the recording captures everything.

Is Pencil Spaces a good place to teach our team AI?

It's purpose-built for it. Pencil Spaces offers collaborative AI chats with every major engine (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and more) that the whole cohort can prompt together. It has side-by-side model comparison, a prompt design workspace with a shared prompt library that persists in the Space, and a built-in library of popular AI tools like Lovable running on collaborative virtual machines, so an instructor and a learner can drive the same AI application together simultaneously.

Does it work with our LMS?

Pencil Spaces works alongside any LMS. Sessions are joined by a link that you can drop into a course, a calendar invite, or a learning path. Every session produces a single composite recording you can publish wherever your library lives. Enterprise single sign-on keeps access to your identity provider.

Is it enterprise-ready?

Pencil Spaces has delivered 10M+ sessions in production and is built to support SOC 2, GDPR, COPPA, FERPA, and HIPAA requirements, with enterprise single sign-on and admin controls. It runs in the browser, so there's nothing for IT to install or update across the company.

Pencil vs L&D

The short answer

Pencil Spaces is a purpose-built virtual classroom with everything needed for learning and development built-in: a native whiteboard, software with shared control, collaborative AI chats, breakout rooms, and one composite recording for your LMS.

Practice is the session. The whole cohort works simultaneously, giving you more hands-on practice hours.

Real software, shared control. Collaborative virtual machines put the actual tools in the room.

Every AI engine, multiplayer. Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini chats that the whole room can prompt together.

Saved work. A cohort's space accumulates work across the whole program, so you pick up where you left off every time.

One composite recording. Faces, board, and software in a single LMS-ready video.

Nothing to install. Browser-native, one-click joins, built to support SOC 2 & GDPR, with single sign-on.

The best place to teach your team AI

Pencil Spaces makes AI multiplayer. The most popular AI tools can be prompted collaboratively in one place.

Claude

ChatGPT

Gemini

+ every major engine, in one collaborative chat

Use Lovable shoulder to shoulder

Pencil Spaces runs real AI applications on collaborative virtual machines. Your instructor builds in Lovable; your learner takes over the keyboard mid-flow; the cohort watches the same screen and the same thinking. Two keyboards, one app.

Lovable is one of many instruments in Pencil Spaces' built-in AI toolkit, each ready to open in the room and collaborative by default.

Browser interface on Pencil Spaces classroom showing an app with prompt input labeled Instructor and user.

Running on a collaborative virtual machine inside the Space — two keyboards, one app.

One shared chat, every model

Collaborative AI chats with Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini that the whole cohort prompts together.

Same prompt, side by side

Run one prompt across engines and put the outputs side by side on the canvas, then mark up the differences on the board.

Prompt design, taught as a craft

Draft on the board, run it live, critique the output as a group, and iterate. The winners go into a shared prompt library that persists in the Space.

Every lesson becomes an academy

Each Lab session ends as one composite recording, plus an AI summary of the chats, the comparisons, and the build.

L&D: a meeting room versus a classroom

One question separates the columns: can the room run the work?

Capability

General purpose

A meeting tool

Purpose-built classroom

Pencil Spaces

What it's built as

A meeting platform
excellent for conferencing

A classroom
‍built from scratch for teaching

Learners practicing at once

One presenter,
everyone else watches

All of them
~15× hands-on minutes per hour

Collaborative virtual machines

Not offered

Two keyboards, one app
‍real software, shared control

Built-in, collaborative AI chats (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini)

Screen-share a chatbot

Every major engine
‍the whole room prompts together

Native collaborative whiteboard

Basic or bolted on

Native, real-time
in the recording too

Instructor tools, engagement metrics, & attendance tracking

Host controls only

Classroom-grade tools and analytics
built-in, not bolted on

Persistent rooms

Room disappears when the call ends

Work is saved between sessions
training accumulates across a program

Recording output

The call

One composite video
‍faces + board + software, LMS-ready

LMS integration

By link

Yes
by link, with LMS-ready recordings

"Meeting tool" describes general-purpose video meeting platforms as a category; capabilities vary by vendor and plan, per public documentation as of June 2026.

When to use a meeting tool

For pure conversations and broadcasts (e.g., syncs, 1:1s, all-hands, etc.), stick to your meeting tool. Pencil Spaces is for sessions where practice and learning are the goals.