Notes on running a school with AI — product news, teaching practice and what we are learning.
A free subdomain from the start, your own domain in four steps. Why a domain you bought stays yours if you ever move — and why the moment you start printing leaflets is the moment to move to it.
The child who understands it at home but cannot write, the one who reads characters but has never spoken, and the one starting from nothing. How to split the content without splitting the class — and what to cost first.
Open, code, invitation only, or closed. Why the join code has the shape it does, why enrolling twice must not be an error, and why your student limit is not checked when someone joins a class.
One credit is 100 tokens, one character of speech is two credits, one image is 350. What each plan includes, why topped-up credits never expire, and how to cost a feature before switching it on for a year group.
The head teacher, the cover teacher, and the colleague helping with the marking. All three say they need access to the same subject, and only one of them should be reading the marks.
Not handed in, waiting to be marked, not due yet, never assigned. Four blanks that look identical in a gradebook, and only one of them may become a zero.
The free plan: 20 students, 1 teacher, 5,000 credits. What stops is new enrolment — students already there are never removed. And why payment from Indonesia does not renew itself.
A mastery score has no time term in it: a concept learned in week one reads exactly the same in December. Why "go over everything again" is the wrong advice, and what to say instead.
Who sits it, which questions a machine can mark, when the answer key may become visible, and which blank cells may become zeros. Eight decisions to settle before your school's first online exam — and every one of them applies whichever software you choose.
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