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TeachFORGE.ai
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What is TeachForge?
What TeachForge is, who it is for, the four things it puts on one board, and where to start.
AI supplies the heat. The teacher does the forging.
What it is
TeachForge is the teaching studio for live lessons: a whiteboard, a workshop of interactive Stations, adaptive quests and virtual labs on one surface, with AI that drafts and a person who decides.
Most lessons need four kinds of tool: something to draw on, something to ask with, something to simulate and something to show. Each one is usually a separate product with its own sign-in, and nothing passes between them. TeachForge puts all four on the same board, so what you build in one place is ready to use in the next, in any subject.
Who it is for
An account is for the person who teaches: a tutor, a teacher, a lecturer, or someone who runs a tutoring business. Schools, colleges and universities can bring their teachers together in one organisation, and connect their own learning platform.
The people you teach do not need an account. They join a board, a quest or a lab with a link or a code, and they never have to give an email address to take part.
The four surfaces
The four surfaces are under The Forge in the menu. Each one is a place where you do something, and everything you make in them can land on the board.
Whiteboard
Collaborative digital whiteboard for real-time teaching and drawing. It is the centre of TeachForge, where the other three meet.
Workshop
Interactive Stations: diagrams, charts, code, maths, science and more. You build an object in a Station and put the result on the board.
Quest Ladder
Progressive learning quests with built-in and community content. Learners say how sure they are as they answer, and instead of one score you see four states behind each answer: Secure, Fragile, Illusion and Blindspot, and each learner's next step follows from them.
Virtual Lab
Interactive practical learning: learners change the parameters of a scene themselves and watch the live graphs move. A lab can run on its own, by link or embed, or on the board.
How a lesson comes together
Start from what exists
Built-in and community content means the first lesson is put together from things that are already there. You change them to fit your class.
Put it on one board
A Station, a quest or a lab sits on the same board as your drawing and your notes, so the hour runs in one place.
Share one link
Learners open it on their own device, with no account. If your organisation has connected its learning platform, a board, a quest or a lab can be added to a course from there.
See what comes back
You see how each learner answered and how sure they were, not only whether they were right, so you know who needs what next.
AI drafts, you decide
AI can draft at every step: a question, a Station, a lab. A draft always lands in an editor first, and nothing reaches a learner until you have decided it should.
You choose where the AI runs. You can copy a prompt into a model you already use and paste the answer back, or, where your plan allows it, connect your own key or your own GPU. Where the AI runs explains the three modes and what each needs.
AI is the heat, not the teacher. TeachForge is built so that the person who teaches stays in charge of what the class sees.
Work you share
Anything you build can be shared with other teachers. A person reviews it before it is published, and your name stays on it. Once approved, a copy is kept in the platform's library so that other classrooms can go on using it. Your own copy stays yours.
Where to start
- Your first week: five things to do, in the order that saves you time.
- Your first Quest Ladder: a question type, a ladder, a delivery, a link.
- Joining without an account: what a learner sees and what is kept.
- Connecting your learning platform: for an organisation's administrator.