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Chart Builder Station
Create classroom charts with a clear Data → Type → Style → Annotate → Export flow — colourblind-safe palettes, annotations, and parametric packages you can reuse.
AI can draft. You decide what the class sees.
What Chart Builder is
Chart Builder is a Station for classroom-ready charts. Choose from a wide set of Chart.js types, move through Data → Type → Style → Annotate → Export, and produce figures meant for teaching — not only for dashboards.
That matters because a chart in a lesson has a job: compare, show trend, reveal composition, or make distribution discussable. The Station is organised around those jobs, with colourblind-safe defaults and annotations you can teach from.
Why teachers use Chart Builder
Compare clearly
Grouped, stacked, horizontal, and lollipop bars for class and subject comparisons.
Show change over time
Line, area, stacked area, and step charts for trends that need a clean story.
Composition and relationships
Pie, doughnut, polar, radar, scatter, bubble, and mixed charts when the question changes shape.
Curriculum stats charts
Histogram, frequency polygon, ogive, waterfall, box plot, and error bars for maths and science lessons.
On TeachForge, Chart Builder is a Workshop Station — built to move from table to teachable chart without leaving the platform.
Inside the Chart Builder Station
Like the rest of the Workshop, Chart Builder keeps data, styling, and preview in one teaching flow.
- Wizard steps — Data, Type, Style, Annotate, Export
- Purpose filters for comparison, trend, composition, relationship, and distribution
- Data table and paste paths, including CSV/JSON import and an Open Data Station bridge
- Colourblind-safe palette guidance, annotations such as mean lines, and soft critique cues
- Parametric catalogue families with GUI controls and Advanced JSON
- Export PNG / SVG / JSON, share, embed, undo/redo, and Whiteboard send
How a table becomes a chart
Enter or paste data on the Data step
Start from class numbers or a catalogue package.
Pick type, style, and annotations
The live preview follows as the teaching point becomes clear.
Export, save, or send it live
Take it to the board, into a question, or out as a file you own.
One chart. Every version of it.
Chart Builder supports parametric catalogue packages across bar, line, pie, scatter, and stats families — with age-band patches — so the same chart shape can reopen with new series, colours, or audience defaults.
Change it while you teach
Swap a series, retune style, or move an annotation without rebuilding the chart.
Keep the structure, vary the numbers
Tomorrow’s class can meet the same chart job with a fresh table.
Match the room in one step
Age bands help the look fit Early Childhood through Lifelong teaching.
Stay close to assessment
Save JSON and reuse the chart inside questions and labs.
Need deeper wrangling first? Open Data Station, clean the table, then bring the story back here.
Ready-made charts to start from
Open a type family or parametric package, then adapt it:
| Area | What you can open |
|---|---|
| Bar | Grouped; Stacked; Horizontal; Lollipop |
| Line & area | Line; Area; Stacked area; Step line |
| Part of whole | Pie; Doughnut; Polar area; Radar |
| Multi-variable | Scatter; Bubble; Mixed bar + line |
| Education & stats | Histogram; Frequency polygon; Ogive; Waterfall; Box plot; Error bars |
AI help, your way
Need a first draft? Use AI as an assistant — then review, edit, and approve before anything reaches learners.
Copy the prompt
Generate a ready-made prompt and paste it into the chat tool you already use.
Use your own GPU
Connect a local model endpoint in your settings and run generation on hardware you control.
Use your own API key
Add your provider key in settings, choose the model, and generate with your own account.
AI can be wrong. That is exactly why a teacher stays in the loop.
Take the chart where teaching happens
- Whiteboard — put it on the live board and adjust it in front of the class
- Quest Ladder — drop it into questions and explanations
- Virtual Lab — reuse it inside interactive lab work
- Community — share what you built, and build on what other educators shared