AI in the classroomHuman or AI.Same classroom.
Most platforms make you choose — a room for humans, or a platform for AI teachers. Pencil holds both — plus an AI coach for the human teacher. All three in the same classroom — and the room itself is doing one more thing the others can't.
Ours, ready to teach.
Warm-ups. Practice drills. Late-night help. Concept walkthroughs. Onboarding modules. Conversation in any language. Pencil's AI runs inside any room — same whiteboard, same recording, same memory a human teacher would have.
✓Native to every Pencil room — no setup, no extra license
✓Shares context with the student's human teacher
✓Recorded, transcribed, reviewable like every session
✓Hands off the moment a human teacher joins
Yours, plugged in.
Already built your own teaching AI on Claude, GPT, Gemini, or a fine-tune? Bring it. Pencil renders the lesson, captures the work, holds the roster, handles the compliance. You handle the pedagogy. We handle the room.
✓SDK and webhooks for any model or wrapper
✓Your prompts, your fine-tunes, your guardrails
✓Same whiteboard, recording, recall as human-led sessions
✓SOC 2, FERPA, COPPA, GDPR — already done
Coaches how you teach.
Pencil watches the lesson — pace, talk-time, question patterns, the moment a student stopped following — and drops a private brief in the instructor's inbox after every session. What worked. What didn't. What to try next time. The teacher's craft is also a thing that develops, lesson by lesson. Pencil makes that visible.
✓Per-session feedback in plain language
✓Tracks pacing, presence, and question patterns
✓Private to the instructor — never part of evaluation
✓Same room, no extra setup or login
And the bigger thingMost rooms passively host the lesson. Pencil Spaces actively maximizes the learning.
Engagement tells you who showed up. Pencil tells you who learned — and helps them learn more. While the lesson runs (human or AI), the room watches what students write, erase, answer, skip, and ask again. By the time the session ends, you have a per-concept, per-student map of what landed — plus a brief for whoever's teaching next on who needs what. Reading for a kindergartner. Algebra with a tutor. Physics for a sophomore. Onboarding for a new hire. The work is the same: measure understanding, act on the gap, help the teacher teach better, help the learner learn more. We use AI for that too.
The classroom is teacher-agnostic — and not passive. Bring your AI. Or use ours. Either way, the room stops hosting the lesson and starts maximizing the learning.