Solutions · Adult education and GED
Adult education that meets learners where they are
Pencil Spaces helps adult education, GED and ESL programs teach live on the phones and laptops learners already have, in the language they know best. These are the problems program leaders, instructors and adult learners run into, and how Pencil Spaces solves each one.
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Industry
Colleges and adult learning
Who
Program leaders, Instructors, Adult learners
Problems mapped
21
Today
20 solved, 1 partly solved
Built for adult education and GED
- Classes on a phoneAny Device · AvailablePencil Spaces works in the browser on Chromebooks, old laptops and phones, with touch and stylus support.
- Taught in English, heard in SpanishLive Translation · AvailableWith Live Translation, an instructor teaches in one language and the learner hears another.
- Progress learners can seeProgress Review · AvailableProgress Review summarizes a student’s performance across many lessons, so they see how far they’ve come.
Program leaders
- Rosters fall out of step with the SISSolved today
- One setup has to fit every role and siteSolved today
- Reports stitched together from many systemsSolved today
- Uninvited guests, leaked links, stale accessSolved today
- Too few lessons are ever observedSolved today
- Engagement and satisfaction go unmeasuredSolved today
- Messages miss families in other languagesPartly solved today
Instructors
- Juggling slides, videos and websitesSolved today
- Quiet students, and the tutor talks mostSolved today
- Differentiating for a whole group at onceSolved today
- “I get it” that isn’t trueSolved today
- Hours lost to grading homeworkSolved today
- Writing notes and reports by handSolved today
Adult learners
- Learning in a second languageSolved today
- Group work online falls flatSolved today
- Forgetting what was covered last timeSolved today
- Joining from a noisy, crowded roomSolved today
- Uneasy on camera, with home on viewSolved today
- Only a phone or a locked-down ChromebookSolved today
- “I’m just bad at this”Solved today
- Lessons clash with classes, sports or jobsSolved today
Every problem we’ve mapped is on the problem map.
The features behind these fixes
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We’ll walk you through it, shaped around how you teach.






