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The complete ClassKite guide for teachers: from your first class to live insight
A full, screenshot-by-screenshot walkthrough of ClassKite for teachers — create a class, get students in, upload your PDFs, build questions three ways (including handing a PDF and a template to an AI assistant), teach on the smart board, run a live practice, follow the class on the Live Student Grid, and read the reports.
When a File-Sharing Classroom Isn't Enough for Live Lessons
Posting and collecting files isn't teaching. See what a classroom platform built for live lessons does differently — annotate on the board, sync every screen, check understanding live.
Moving From Posting Worksheets to Teaching With Them
Stop posting PDFs for students to fill in alone. Teach with them: annotate live on the board, work the first question together, then turn the pages into auto-marked practice.
Bring Your Own AI: Filling a Question Bank Template With Any Assistant
Use any AI assistant to fill ClassKite's Question Bank template, then upload it back and review every question. A bring-your-own-AI route to a ready question bank.
AI in the Classroom: Benefits, Risks, and a Teacher-First Workflow
A balanced look at AI in the classroom — where it genuinely saves time, where the risks are, and a teacher-first workflow where AI drafts and the teacher decides.
Why 'AI Drafts, Teacher Decides' Beats Auto-Generated Quizzes
Fully auto-generated quizzes risk wrong keys and off-syllabus items. See why keeping the teacher in the loop — AI drafts, you review — gives better questions without losing the time saved.
From a PDF to Auto-Marked Practice: A Prep Workflow
A weekly prep routine that turns the PDFs you already have into reusable auto-marked practice — so you re-run lessons next year instead of rebuilding them.
Formative Assessment Tools That Inform the Lesson You're Teaching
Formative assessment that's actually formative: instant, in-lesson signals that tell you what to reteach now — not findings you read next term.
What Auto-Marking Can (and Can't) Do for You
An honest scope of auto-marking: brilliant for objective questions (instant, no pile), not a substitute for marking essays. How to design checks that get the most from it.
Smart Board Teaching: Keep Every Screen on the Same Page
The classroom-management win of follow-me page sync: every student's screen follows yours, your annotation streams live, and you can push a quick check — no more 'what page are we on?'.
Annotate Once, Reuse Next Year: A Marked-Up Lesson Workflow
Build lessons you reuse: saved annotations plus reusable question banks organised by topic and section, so next year you re-run instead of rebuild.
Digital Whiteboard for Teachers: What It Is and Isn't
What a teacher should actually expect from a digital whiteboard — and how ClassKite's 'teach from your own PDFs, streamed and synced' model differs from a generic infinite canvas.