Running the lesson · Guides Coming soon
The teacher’s guide, beside every board.
Guides put your teaching notes inside Pencil Spaces, next to the board you’re teaching from. A Board Guide holds the steps, prompts and answers for the board you’re on, and it changes when the board does. A Space Guide covers the whole Space. Only hosts see a guide, so everyone else sees just the lesson.
Your lesson plan sits beside the board you share with your student, and only you can see it. Each board brings its own steps, prompts and answers, so you never lose your place or reach for a workbook mid-lesson.
Your whole class sees the board. You see the board and the plan for it: the steps, the question to ask next and the answers, folded away until you need them.
Every facilitator runs the workshop the same way, with the agenda and notes beside the board. Each board brings its own steps and questions, and participants never see them.
Your lesson plan moves off the printout on your desk and onto your screen, beside the board. Each board brings its own steps, and the answer key stays folded away until you open it.
Sit side by side with your child, with the steps for each board right beside it. Keep the answers in a collapsible section and open it only when it’s time to check.
Coming soon to the Master plan, and as an add-on for Enterprise.
Guide
The Guide panel sits beside the board. The Board tab holds the steps for the board you’re on. The Space tab holds what applies to every board. Only hosts see it.
Tick a step, open the folded section or move to the next board.
Close the binder.
The plan usually lives somewhere other than the lesson: a printed guide, a workbook beside the laptop or a PDF in another tab. You flip back and forth while you teach, and when the curriculum changes, last term’s printouts are still in use.
Facilitator notes usually live in a separate document. Each facilitator runs the workshop a little differently, and updates never reach the copy someone printed last quarter.
The lesson plan sits on your desk or in another tab, away from the board you’re teaching from. And the answer key has to stay out of sight of the class.
At the kitchen table, the answer key sits where your child can see it, and the steps you meant to follow are in a book you put down five minutes ago.
一般的な方法
- Keep the guide or workbook open beside you.
- Find your place again at every new board.
- Reprint when the curriculum changes.
- Hide the answer key.
- Keep facilitator notes in another document.
- Find your place again at every new board.
- Send updated notes to every facilitator.
- Hope everyone runs it the same way.
- Keep the book open next to you.
- Lose your place between pages.
- Cover the answers with your hand.
- Guess which step comes next.
With Guides
- The guide sits beside the board, in your Space.
- It changes when the board changes.
- New Spaces from your template start with the latest version.Only hosts see it, and the next board brings the next steps.
- Answers stay folded away until you open them.Notes stay folded away until you need them.
How Guides work.
Every Space gets a Guide panel with two tabs, Board and Space.
1
Open the Guide.
Find Guide with the apps in your Space, or press ⌘K or Ctrl K and type “guide.”
2
Write it once.
Add text, lists, checklists, images, videos, PDFs and links. Fold anything into a collapsible section.
3
Teach with it.
The Board Guide follows the board you’re on. Use the arrows at the bottom to move to the next board, and its guide comes with it.
4
Jump to any board.
See every board’s guide in one searchable list. Pick one, and the Space switches to that board.
Two guides in every Space.
Board Guide
For the board you’re on.
The steps, prompts and answers for one board. When you move to the next board, its guide opens with it, so you never hunt for your place.
The steps, timings and questions for one board. When you move to the next board, its guide opens with it, so you never hunt for your place.
Space Guide
For everything in the Space.
Goals, the recommended flow and the files you refer to in every lesson in the Space, one tab away from the Board Guide.
The agenda, the method and the files you refer to in every workshop in the Space, one tab away from the Board Guide.
What a guide can hold
Only hosts see a guide. Everyone else sees the board, never the plan or the answers.
Only hosts see a guide. Participants see the board, never the facilitator notes.
Only hosts see a guide. Sharing one screen? Keep the answers in a collapsible section and open it when it’s time to check.
In a real lesson.
In a real workshop.
At the kitchen table.
A teacher opens board 3, and the guide beside it says what to do: introduce “horse,” model the letters, let her student trace them. When the tracing stalls, she opens “If students are struggling” and plays the example.
You open board 3 and the plan is already beside it: introduce “horse,” model the letters, let your student trace them. Press the arrow for board 4, and its guide comes with it.
Your class is on the practice board. Beside it, you see three steps, the question to ask and the answers, folded away until the first hand goes up.
A new facilitator takes over the next group. The Space Guide holds the agenda, and each board’s guide holds the steps and the questions to ask. The workshop runs the way it always does.
The warm-up board is up at the front of the room. Your guide lists today’s steps, and the answers stay in a collapsible section until you choose to open it.
Tonight’s practice is the word “horse.” The guide lists each step, and the answers stay folded away until your child has had a go.
学校・チーム向け
You decide who writes the guide.
Write the guide once, put it in your template Space and every teacher starts from the same plan. Admins choose who can change it.
学習塾事業者向け
Every tutor teaches from the same plan.
Write the guide once and put it in your template Space. Every tutor gets the same steps, prompts and answers, and you decide who can change them.
トレーニングチーム向け
Every facilitator runs the same workshop.
Write the guide once in your template Space. Every facilitator gets the same agenda and notes, and you decide who can change them.
Permissions
Set who can edit.
In Permissions, under Inside Spaces, admins choose whether teachers can create and edit guides, or only admins can. Teachers who can’t edit still tick checklists and open collapsible sections.
Templates
Start every Space the same.
Guides are copied with the Space when you duplicate it or create one from a template.
Editing
Know before you overwrite.
If someone else is editing the same guide, Pencil Spaces warns you before your save replaces their changes.
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Questions about Guides
Who can see a guide?
Only hosts. Students see the board and the lesson, never the guide beside it. If you teach side by side on one screen, put the answers in a collapsible section and open it only when it’s time to check, so nothing gives the answer away early.
Only hosts. Participants see the board and the workshop, never the notes beside it. If you share one screen with the group, put anything private in a collapsible section and open it only when you need it.
Only hosts. When you host the Space, your child sees the board and not the guide. If you sit side by side at one screen, put the answers in a collapsible section and open it only when it’s time to check.
What’s the difference between a Board Guide and a Space Guide?
A Board Guide belongs to one board and changes as you move from board to board. A Space Guide applies to the whole Space, so it’s the place for goals, the recommended flow and the files you refer to every time. Switch between them with the Board and Space tabs at the top of the Guide panel.
What can I put in a guide?
Text, bulleted and numbered lists, checklists, images, videos, PDF files and links. You can also fold any part into a collapsible section, which stays closed until you open it. Checklists can be ticked off as you teach, so you always know which step comes next.
Who can create and edit guides?
Your institution decides. In Permissions, under Inside Spaces, admins choose whether teachers can create and edit guides, or only admins can. Teachers who can’t edit can still tick checklist items and open collapsible sections while they teach. Each edit is saved to the board or the Space you have open.
What happens to guides when I copy a Space or use a template?
They come with it. When you duplicate a Space or create one from a template, its Board Guides and Space Guide are copied into the new Space. Every teacher starts from the same plan, and you update the template when the plan changes.
When will Guides be available, and on which plan?
Guides is coming soon. It will be included in the Master plan and offered as an add-on for Enterprise. Talk to the team to see Guides in action and to hear when it reaches your Spaces. Everything else in Pencil Spaces is ready to use today.
More ways to run the lesson
Bring your teacher’s guide into the Space.
Coming soon to the Master plan, and as an add-on for Enterprise.
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