Solutions · Online and virtual schools
An online school that feels like a real school
Pencil Spaces gives online and virtual schools live classes, breakout rooms, private boards and a classroom that stays between lessons. These are the problems online school leaders, teachers, students and families run into, and how Pencil Spaces solves each one.
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Industry
Les écoles
Who
School leaders, Teachers, Students, Families
Problems mapped
34
Aujourd'hui
33 solved, 1 partly solved
Clients
Built for online and virtual schools
- Small groups inside a big classBreakout Rooms · AvailableBreakout Rooms split the class into small rooms for focused work, let you broadcast to every room, and bring everyone back in one click.
- A course that stays organizedBoard Folders · AvailableBoard Folders give every Space multiple boards grouped into folders, so a whole course stays organized in one place.
- Knowing who’s really with youTuned In · AvailableTuned In tells you when a student switches tabs or apps mid-lesson, without showing what’s in the other tab.
Customer stories
- Aoba-Japan International SchoolCustomer storySelected by the IB in 2023 for Japan’s first online Diploma pilot
School leaders
- One setup has to fit every role and siteSolved today
- Rosters fall out of step with the SISSolved today
- Logins fail, young children most of allSolved today
- Launching a term or a site takes weeksSolved today
- No-shows and join failures at start timeSolved today
- No live view across every lessonSolved today
- Getting the right materials to every tutorSolved today
- No shared standard for good teachingSolved today
- Too few lessons are ever observedSolved today
- Children alone online with adults, unseenSolved today
- Student data under COPPA, FERPA and GDPRSolved today
- Uninvited guests, leaked links, stale accessSolved today
- Attendance entered and fixed by handSolved today
- Engagement and satisfaction go unmeasuredSolved today
- Families see the vendor’s brand, not yoursSolved today
- Each new site, language or age is a projectSolved today
Teachers
- Juggling slides, videos and websitesSolved today
- Building rapport through a screenSolved today
- Quiet students, and the tutor talks mostSolved today
- Differentiating for a whole group at onceSolved today
- Can’t see who’s stuck in a groupSolved today
- Hours lost to grading homeworkSolved today
- Remembering where each student left offSolved today
- Inappropriate content or uninvited peopleSolved today
Students
- Getting lost on the way into classSolved today
- Uneasy on camera, with home on viewSolved today
- Group work online falls flatSolved today
- Other tabs, phones and gamesSolved today
- Forgetting what was covered last timeSolved today
- Online tests that don’t fit how they workSolved today
- No idea if they’re ready for the testSolved today
Families
- Can’t see what happens in lessonsSolved today
- “It was fine” is all they hearSolved today
- Unsure their child actually attendedPartly solved today
Every problem we’ve mapped is on the problem map.
The features behind these fixes
See it in a live Space.
We’ll walk you through it, shaped around how you teach.
