Teaching materials

Teaching materials is your workspace for creating, storing, and organizing lesson resources. Go to /teacher/teaching-materials.

There are two material types:

  • Document — write structured documents, handouts, and study guides in a rich-text editor.
  • Canvas — design worksheets, posters, diagrams, flashcards, and slide decks on a free-form canvas, single-page or multi-page.

To create one, click + New above your materials: name it, pick the type (folder, document, or canvas), and it's created immediately — documents and canvases open straight in their editor. Materials autosave as you work and keep an edit history, and can be reopened, renamed, copied, moved, or deleted later; deleting asks for confirmation first.

Folders

Use folders to organize materials by class, unit, subject, or week. You can:

  • Create folders
  • Open nested folders
  • Rename, copy, move, and delete folders
  • Drag a material or folder onto another folder to move it there (the Move action in the ⋮ menu works too)
  • Navigate with the breadcrumb trail — always visible, so you can see where you are even at Home
  • Filter by name, and sort materials and folders by date, name, or item count

Document editor

The Document editor is a rich-text editor for handouts, lesson notes, study guides, and parent communication. You can import content from a .docx file or Google Docs, insert images from the image library, zoom the page with the − / Fit / + control in the toolbar (the same control as the Canvas editor), and export the finished document as DOCX or PDF.

Math and chemistry equations

The π button in the toolbar adds an equation to the document and opens an equation editor in the Properties panel — a visual math field with a symbol palette, no code. Type math straight into the field: 1/2 becomes a fraction, x^2 a power, H_2O a subscript; arrow keys move between a fraction's top and bottom, and the equation updates live in the document as you type. The palette below the field inserts symbols and structures — fractions, roots, powers, indices, sums, integrals, Greek letters, operators, arrows, sets, and chemistry (subscripts, charges, reaction and equilibrium arrows) — straight into the field at your cursor. Categories collapse if you don't need them. Click any equation in the document to edit it again; leave it empty to remove it. Equations in assessments and lesson plans you open in the editor are edited the same way. PDF export prints equations as displayed; DOCX export carries the underlying formula.

Canvas editor

The Canvas editor is a visual editor for worksheets, posters, diagrams, flashcards, and slide decks. You can:

  • Add text, shapes, and images, and group, layer, and arrange them freely
  • Build multiple pages in one material
  • Add per-object animations and run a full-screen Present mode
  • Add a voice element — either generate a spoken clip from text (pick a voice and language) or upload your own audio file (mp3, m4a, or wav); tap it in Present mode to play (useful for narrated slides, pronunciation, read-aloud support, or background audio). Generating a clip draws on your monthly voice allowance; uploading your own audio is free.
  • Import the text of a PowerPoint (.pptx) as pages
  • Export as PNG or PDF (a multi-page canvas exports as a PDF, or as a ZIP of PNGs)

Image library

Both editors share an image library. Insert images from four sources:

  • Library — every image you've saved, in one place, with tag, type, and date filters
  • Search — find royalty-free stock photos (Pexels) and insert or save them
  • Generate — describe an image and create it with AI (each generation uses one AI request)
  • Upload — add images from your device, or take one with your camera right from the Upload tab

Uploaded, captured, and generated images are saved to your library automatically so you can reuse them, and you can tag any image you own.

Sharing materials with groups

Materials are shared from a group's Share tab, not from this page. Link a folder or material to a group and set its visibility for students — Read only or Editable. When a material is editable, students can edit both documents and canvases, add their own images straight from their device, and import a Word file; they cannot generate AI voice or images (those stay teacher-only). See Groups for the full sharing workflow. Use sharing carefully so students and families only see materials intended for them.

Organization Teachers

Organization teachers can create their own teaching materials. Materials shared to organization groups depend on the permissions and group access configured by the organization admin.

A simple structure that works well:

  • One top-level folder per subject or class
  • Unit folders inside each subject
  • Separate materials for lesson notes, handouts, rubrics, worksheets, and extension tasks
  • Shared folders only for materials students or families actually need

Teaching With It

Materials are where generated content becomes classroom content: lesson plans and assessments open in this same editor, so you can save them directly into your library, refine them, and deliver them — print, share read-only, or share editable so students genuinely work in the same document (From generation to the classroom). Materials you're proud of can also be imported as training documents, so the AI learns from your best work (Teach the AI to be you).