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▶ColabYard — Introduction
Teaching a live session today often means switching between five different tools, one for slides, another for quizzes, another for group work, another for the whiteboard, and hoping nothing breaks in the transition. ColabYard brings all of that into one platform, where lectures, quizzes, discussions, whiteboards, and applied activities work together seamlessly. Learners join instantly with a QR code, no account or download needed, while AI helps trainers generate content,always with the trainer approving before anything reaches students. This is ColabYard: everything you need to teach live, in one place.
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▶Online Discussions
Discussions is a real-time group discussion tool where trainers create up to four timed breakout groups, each joinable by its own QR code or link, with optional AI-generated Tutor Prompts that auto-fire during the session or can be triggered on-demand for groups that finish early. Students post sticky notes, react, comment, and see typing indicators live, while trainers moderate from an Observe view with post/word counts, AI-likelihood badges, and per-group engagement tracking. The session wraps up with a cross-group contribution leaderboard, a full-screen presentation mode for debriefs, and options to refresh or clear the board for reuse with a new cohort.
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▶Interactive Lectures
ColabYard's Live Lectures unify quizzes, activities, discussions, GreenBoards, and more into one seamless live session where trainers move fluidly between teaching, checking understanding, and collaboration—with students joining instantly via QR code—while a new timeline view makes planning these multi-format sessions as simple as drag-and-drop. Complementing this, the new Reflection task structures post-lecture learning around Kolb's reflective cycle, using AI to generate lecture-specific prompts that guide students through experience, observation, conceptualisation, and experimentation, turning reflection from an afterthought into a guided process for consolidating and applying what they've learned. Together, these features make ColabYard a cohesive end-to-end learning experience—from intuitive session design and seamless live delivery to structured post-lecture reflection.
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▶Activities
ColabYard 's Activities section offers a range of interactive exercise formats — including matching pairs, sequence matching, categorisation, labelling, and fill-the-blanks — designed to test understanding beyond simple multiple-choice. These formats adapt well to different subject areas, from ordering steps in a coding process or maths problem to sorting concepts in a case study scenario. By giving trainers flexible ways to build hands-on, applied exercises, Activities help students demonstrate real understanding rather than just recognising the right answer.
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▶Quizzes
Colabyard Quizzes let trainers create, generate and launch interactive quizzes that students join instantly, with answers and results updating live as the session runs. Trainers get real-time insight into performance, with results and motivational feedback shown to students who aren't at the top, keeping the experience encouraging rather than discouraging. Quizzes give trainers a fast, low-friction way to check understanding without breaking the flow of a session.
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▶Guided Scenario
ColabYard 's Guided Scenario task places students inside a realistic, branching scenario where each decision they make shapes the path and outcome that follows. Rather than testing recall, it challenges students to apply judgement, weigh trade-offs, and consider different stakeholders as a situation unfolds in real time. Built-in scoring and feedback reflect not just what students chose, but the reasoning behind each decision, helping them see how different approaches lead to very different results.
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▶GreenBoard - Collaborative Online Board
GreenBoard is a live, collaborative smart board built for training sessions, letting trainers set up multi-group breakout boards with QR/link joining, real-time drawing, file attachments, URLs, and Images, while students join by name or anonymously and can export their own PDF copies. Trainers stay in control with live save indicators, board locking, a moderation panel for managing contributions, and optional engagement tracking that reports active time and participation per student. Boards persist beyond the session with automatic image re-hosting, so trainers can reactivate, rename, or revisit them anytime without relying on a student's browser staying open.
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▶Essay Marker
ColabYard's essay marking tool lets trainers paste or upload a learner's essay, select a level from KS3 to master's, and optionally add a rubric, with spell check available in many languages. The AI returns a suggested mark, learner-facing feedback, and its reasoning which the trainer reviews and adjusts before deciding the final mark, while each essay uses one AI credit from a daily allowance and is read, marked, and discarded without being saved. In short: fair, fast feedback, with your judgement staying in charge.
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▶Knowledge Maps
ColabYard's concept map tool lets trainers select two to eight lectures or slide decks, and AI reads them to build a visual map of the whole module's concepts and their connections. Trainers can then edit concepts and connections to refine the map. AI drafts, you approve, before learners view the module-level map on their own devices to see how everything fits together. The result: see the whole module, not just this week.
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▶MathsBoard
ColabYard's maths tools let trainers type equations on a keyboard that are automatically typeset as clean maths, no trackpad or writing pad needed, and use a built-in graph plotter to draw functions. Trainers can also use their phone as a remote trackpad or writing pad while the maths appears on the classroom screen. The result: clean maths, no fuss, straight from the keyboard.
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▶Code Sandbox
ColabYard's Code Sandbox lets learners join via QR code with no account, app, or installation, then run code directly in the browser across four languages , Python, SQL, R, and JavaScript, seeing real output for each. Trainers can place a Code Sandbox task inside a lecture or module alongside other task types. The result: write it, run it, learn it, all in the browser.
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▶Modules
ColabYard's Modules let trainers create dedicated module pages that group and link related activities — lectures, quizzes, activities, discussions, and GreenBoards — into one structured, coherent learning path. Rather than managing scattered individual sessions, trainers can organise an entire unit or course around a single page that reflects how the content actually connects. This gives students a clear, guided route through a module from start to finish, while giving trainers a single view to manage and sequence everything within it.
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