Demo · your own private workspace · nothing here is shared with other visitors

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See how a lesson is made

You have been handed a short text and a short recording. Take them through the same steps a real lesson goes through: structure the source, decide what a learner should be able to do, write a few questions that each point back at their source, review them, publish them, and then answer them as a learner.

This workspace is yours alone and is thrown away when you reset it. You are not editing the site's own material, and nobody else can see what you do here.

What this is, and what it isn't

The machinery here is real, not a mock-up. Your question is checked by the same validator the private authoring tool uses, publishing runs the same readiness gate, and the learner view at the end is the actual learner experience rather than a picture of one. If you write something malformed, the code that refuses it is the code that refuses it for real.

What it is not is the full authoring tool. This is a bounded slice, working on one supplied source pack in a throwaway workspace: it cannot open or edit the material this site already publishes, it offers four of the question types rather than all of them, and it leaves out the parts a working editor needs and a visitor does not — file upload, the audio preparation tools, the multi-stage lesson workbench, and the queue of items needing attention.

  1. 1. Source
  2. 2. Structure
  3. 3. Objectives
  4. 4. Questions
  5. 5. Review & publish
  6. 6. Learner view

1. The source you were given

A short text document and one recording with a transcript that has already been checked. You can edit the text — this is your copy — and the original stays available beside it for comparison.

Short sources only in this demo. There is no file upload: the point being shown is what happens to a source once it is here.

The recording

2. The source as structured blocks

Splitting is done by the document's layout — headings and blank lines — and nothing else. Nothing here has read the text for meaning, worked out what it is about, or proposed an answer. What each block is for is a decision you make.

What the state labels mean
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3. What should a learner be able to do?

            
These were written by a person. Pick the ones your lesson is for.

            

        


        
        

            
4. Write a question

            

                A balanced small set beats an exhaustive one: pick the smallest
                question type that gets at the objective, mix recognising with
                producing, and only use audio where the source actually supports
                it. All the question types →
            


            
            

            

            

                
                
            

            

        


        
        

            
Why this set of questions?

            

                The engine aims at balanced coverage rather than every question a
                source could support.
            

            

        


        
        

            
5. Review, approve, publish

            

                Approving a question says it is editorially ready. Publishing is a
                separate act — and a published question that you then edit is
                marked as changed until you publish it again.
            

            

            

                
                
            

            

        


        
        

            
6. Your lesson, as a learner sees it

            
Publish something to see it here.