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Lesson Planning

The platform provides two complementary tools for planning lessons: the Teaching Assistant and AI Lesson Planning (within Student Insights). Both are AI-powered but serve different purposes.

Teaching Assistant​

The Teaching Assistant is a general-purpose exercise generator. It is not tied to a specific student, which means you can create reusable exercises and use them across multiple learners at the same level.

Generating an Exercise​

  1. Go to Lesson Planning → Teaching Assistant.
  2. Optionally, select a student context — if you select a student, the exercise will be personalised based on their lesson history.
  3. Choose:
    • Mode: Listening, Writing, Speaking, or Reading
    • Level: e.g. A2, B1, C1
    • Mechanism: Vocabulary, Grammar, or Pronunciation
    • Exercise type: e.g. ordering food in a restaurant, photo speculation, storytelling
    • Additional instructions: any specific grammar topic or custom requirements
  4. Click Generate.

The AI produces an exercise you can preview before saving. For example, a listening exercise may include:

  • A transcript (which you can review before converting to audio)
  • Key vocabulary
  • Comprehension questions
  • Answer key (hidden by default when inserted into a lesson)

Saving and Organising Exercises​

Save generated exercises into folders you name yourself. Saved exercises can be reused across any lesson or student.

Personalised Talking Points​

The Teaching Assistant can also generate conversation starters and talking points based on a student's previous lessons, drawing from past transcriptions.

AI Lesson Planning (per student)​

Accessible from Students → [Student Name] → AI Lesson Planning.

This is an AI-powered chat focused specifically on one student. Use it to:

  • Ask for exercise recommendations based on recent lessons
  • Get suggestions for what to focus on in the next session
  • Review what topics have been covered
  • Generate a student-specific Teaching Assistant exercise

Creating a Lesson​

  1. Go to Lessons and click Create Lesson, or create it through Google Calendar by adding the student's email — the lesson will sync automatically.
  2. Fill in:
    • Title
    • Description (optional)
    • Meeting link — paste your Google Meet or other video call link
    • Student(s)
    • Duration
  3. On the next step:
    • Summary template — choose which template to use for this lesson's auto-generated summary
    • Lesson plan — optionally upload a lesson plan file or select a saved Teaching Assistant exercise

Recurring Lessons​

When creating a lesson, you can mark it as recurring to use the same link across multiple sessions with the same student.

Summary Templates​

Lesson summaries are automatically generated after each session based on the transcript. You can customise the template used.

Default Template​

The default template includes:

  • New vocabulary introduced
  • Themes covered in the lesson
  • Corrected mistake sentences with brief explanations
  • Suggestions for sentences using the new material

Custom Templates​

You can create your own templates from Settings → Summary Templates. For example, a conversation-class template might focus only on fluency notes and topic coverage without detailed grammar correction.

Templates can be:

  • Set as the default for a specific student
  • Changed per-lesson when creating or entering a session

Previewing Templates​

You can preview how a template will look by applying it to a past lesson before committing to it.