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THE TEACHER HELP LIBRARY

A little guidance.
More room to teach.

Start with what you want to do in your lesson. Explore a feature, then find the detail when you need it.

The library is taking shape. The topics below are our guide plan. Step-by-step articles, annotated screenshots and videos will be added as each feature is completed and checked.

Explore help topics

START WITH YOUR LESSON

What would you like to do?

Guides in preparation
01 / PREPARE

Build a lesson around your teaching goal

AI Wizard, curriculum choices and connected lesson slides.

Explore planned guides → 02 / TEACH

Make your thinking visible

Draw, annotate a PDF, highlight an idea and focus attention.

Explore planned guides → 03 / INVOLVE

Bring the class into the lesson

Quizzes, answer reveals, media and independent activities.

Explore planned guides → 04 / CREATE

Shape content with AI

Editable text, images, source links and reviewing results.

Explore planned guides → 05 / REFINE

Make the canvas your own

Text, shapes, images, layers and slide organisation.

Explore planned guides → 06 / REUSE

Keep and share your teaching work

Saved projects, editable files, PDF exports and captures.

Explore planned guides →

GO A LITTLE DEEPER

The guide plan

Open a topic to see the articles planned for it. These are article titles, with walkthroughs still to come.

Prepare a lessonPlanned

From a teaching goal to a sequence you can adapt.

  • Create a teaching slide with AI Wizard
  • Choose a curriculum and teaching focus
  • Set up a lesson opening: intentions and success criteria
  • Build vocabulary practice from your word list
  • Plan a concept sequence with checks for understanding
  • Adjust support, challenge and classroom routines
  • Review, edit and finish generated slide content
Teach on the canvasPlanned

Explain an idea as the lesson unfolds.

  • Find your way around the teaching workspace
  • Write and highlight with Pen and Highlighter
  • Open a PDF and annotate its pages
  • Use Laser to focus the class on part of a slide
  • Present and move between slides
  • Erase, clear and undo changes
  • Use a mouse, touch screen, stylus or keyboard
Involve the classPlanned

Build moments for responses, discussion and practice.

  • Add multiple-choice and true-or-false questions
  • Reveal answers and reset a quiz
  • Add images, video and audio to a lesson
  • Build an independent activity with a linked answer sheet
  • Review and export a worksheet and its answers
  • Understand what stays interactive when you export
Create and check AI contentPlanned

Keep teacher judgement at the centre of generated content.

  • Connect AI and understand request costs
  • Create an image or editable text with AI Wand
  • Transform a selection and match a visual style
  • Choose image quality and replace an image
  • Follow source links and check generated explanations
  • Review AI feedback and correct an item
  • Recover interrupted generation and find saved results
  • Report a result and manage AI privacy settings
Edit and organise your lessonPlanned

Adjust the details to suit your class.

  • Add and format text, shapes and stamps
  • Select, move, resize, rotate and copy objects
  • Reorder layers and show or hide objects
  • Import, crop and flip an image
  • Erase image pixels or remove an object with AI
  • Use canvas colours, grid guides and snapping
  • Preview, copy, reorder and delete slides
  • Keep lesson stacks together while organising slides
Save, reuse and sharePlanned

Know where your lesson is saved and which file to share.

  • Understand autosave and “saved on this device”
  • Find, rename and copy a project
  • Recover a recently deleted project
  • Download and reopen an editable .ccanvas project
  • Export a PDF or capture a slide image
  • Share a file from your browser
  • Use account storage when it is available
  • Resolve a save problem or conflicting version
Account and settingsPlanned
  • Register, verify your email and access the app
  • Reset your password and manage your profile
  • Change workspace appearance and tool preferences
  • Manage account data and privacy
  • Send feedback or report a problem
When something needs a handPlanned
  • A project did not save or reopen
  • AI content is incomplete or needs correcting
  • Audio or video will not play
  • An exported file looks different
  • A tool behaves differently on another device

WATCH AND TRY

Short walkthroughs, coming later.

Videos will sit beside their matching articles, with captions and a written version so you can learn in the way that suits you.