Guides
Every feature of Praktikal, one short guide each: what it is for, how to set it up, and what students see.
Preparing lessons
- Start here: what Praktikal is forPraktikal keeps the whole path of a lesson in one place: the materials you make, the lessons you build from them, the sessions you run with a class and the answers that come back.
- Building and presenting a lessonCreate a lesson, fill its modules with slides and worksheets, bring in material you already have from the Repository, and present it to your class.
- Organising My materialsMy materials holds everything you have made or brought into Praktikal. Folders, subfolders and your own uploaded files keep it in the order that suits you.
- Sets: one topic's materials togetherA set gathers existing materials on one theme, so you can find them again and place the whole bundle in a worksheet. Nothing is copied: a set points to the originals.
- Files and links for studentsPut a downloadable handout and a useful website next to the activity, so students find everything the task needs in one place.
- Learning focus, outcomes and teacher notesRecord what the lesson focuses on and what students should be able to do, add notes that only you see while teaching, and give students instructions they can follow.
- Planning a lesson with your AI chatConnect ChatGPT, Claude or another assistant that supports MCP to Praktikal, describe the lesson you need, and it creates worksheets you can edit in your own account.
- Assistant skills: save your way of workingA skill is a saved set of instructions telling an AI assistant how you want a task done. Write it once and reuse it from Praktikratt or from a chat connected to Praktikal over MCP.
Content and layout
- Text and imagesWrite an explanation with a heading, a list and emphasis, then add an illustration with a caption that tells students what to look at.
- Structuring a worksheetGroup related content into sections, set instructions and key definitions apart, show pictures side by side, and keep prompts folded away until students need them.
- Periodic table, element card and electron shellsShow one element three ways: highlighted in the periodic table, as an element card with labelled properties, and as an electron shell diagram.
- Audio and videoAdd a sound file students can play, a video from a link, or a YouTube or Vimeo film, each with a caption that tells students what to listen or look for.
- TablesLay out a comparison in rows and columns, with text and pictures in the cells, so students can read the results side by side.
- Drawing on a canvasDraw a labelled diagram, such as a cycle or a process, right in the worksheet, and reopen it whenever a label needs changing.
- Mathematical notation in textWrite fractions, subscripts and other mathematical notation straight into an explanation, or show a worked calculation as a formula of its own.
- Chemical formulas in textWrite chemical formulas and reaction equations inside ordinary text, with subscripts, state symbols and arrows set the way chemistry is printed.
- Solubility tableAdd a solubility table of common salts and bases to a worksheet and highlight the ions your task is about, so students find the right cell quickly.
- Study cardsA deck of two-sided cards for revising terms: students recall the answer, turn the card and mark whether they knew it, or type the answer and have it checked.
Questions
- Multiple choice (one answer)Ask a question with several options and exactly one right answer. Students click the option they choose, and the answer is sent straight away.
- Multiple choice (several answers)Students tick every option they think is right. Use it when more than one answer is correct, so that each option has to be judged on its own.
- Dropdown questionStudents choose their answer from a list that opens on click. It takes little space and asks them to recognise the right answer among close alternatives.
- Multiple choice (image options, one answer)A one-answer question where the options are pictures. Students click the picture that fits, and the answer is sent at once.
- Multiple choice (image options)Students pick every picture that matches the question. Use it when more than one picture is correct.
- Likert scaleA scale of points from one end to the other, for opinions, confidence and self-assessment. Students mark where they stand; unless you mark a point, there is no right answer.
- Open-ended questionsAsk a question that students answer in their own words. Short answers can be checked against the answers you accept; longer ones come to you to read.
- Numeric answersAsk for a number and let Praktikal check it. You set the correct value, how far off still counts, and the unit around it.
- Math questionsStudents write their answer as a formula with an on-screen maths keyboard, and Praktikal checks it mathematically rather than character by character.
- Fill the gapsTurn any sentence or passage into an exercise: pick the words students should recall, and each one becomes an empty field they type into.
- Spoken answersStudents record a spoken answer in the browser and submit it. You listen to each recording and mark it yourself.
- Photo answersWhen the work is made by hand, students photograph it and submit the picture as their answer.
- Student listsStudents write their own list of answers, such as suggestions, goals or hypotheses, and can rate each one. There is no right answer; you read the lists.
- Graph tasksStudents answer by drawing on a coordinate grid: points, lines, segments, rays or curves. Praktikal checks the drawing against yours, within the tolerances you set.
- Chemistry exerciseWrite a formula or reaction equation and mark what students fill in: a whole formula they build from elements, single symbols or subscripts, or the coefficients that balance it.
- Circuit diagramsDraw circuit diagrams that stay editable on the worksheet, and let students answer by building a circuit of their own.
- Fill the tableA table students fill in with measurements or observations. Turn on a chart and it plots their values as they type.
- Connect pairsStudents join each item in one column to its partner in the other, such as a term and what it means. The pairs are checked automatically.
- OrderingStudents drag steps, events or stages into the right order. The order you enter is the answer key.
- Mark the wordsStudents read a passage and click the words that fit the task, for example every adjective or every term linked to a topic.
- GroupingStudents sort cards into groups you name, by dragging them. Use it for classification: physical or chemical changes, mammals or birds, nouns or verbs.
- Hotspot questionStudents answer by clicking a place on a picture: a part of a diagram, an instrument in a set-up, a country on a map.
- Drag and dropStudents drag labels or picture pieces onto targets on an image, for example naming the stages of the water cycle on a diagram.
- Drawing taskStudents answer by drawing on a picture or a blank canvas: circling, labelling, sketching. You look at the drawings and mark them yourself.
Activities and games
- Series taskA series task puts several questions under one shared text, so students can, for example, choose an answer and then explain it in the same place.
- Branching scenarioA branching scenario is a decision exercise: students choose what to do, and each choice leads to its own next step, feedback or ending.
- Interactive videoAn interactive video stops at the moments you choose and puts a question in front of students before it plays on.
- Random pickerA wheel built from your list. Each student spins it, and whatever it lands on is saved as their answer: a role, a viewpoint, a topic or a task.
- Memo gameA memo game turns pairs into cards: students turn over two at a time and look for the ones that belong together.
- CrosswordWrite words and their clues, and Praktikal builds the crossword grid for you. Students solve it by typing the answers into the grid.
- Word searchA word search hides the words you choose in a grid of letters. Students find each one and drag across it to mark it.
- Word gameA word game hides one word or phrase. Students guess it, and after each guess the colours show which letters are right.
Explorations and apps
- Graphs and chartsShow a relationship as a figure students can read and explore: a Graph for functions and points on a coordinate grid, a Chart for data with axes, units and annotations.
- Animations and simulationsPut a working model into a worksheet: students change one condition with its own sliders and buttons and watch what happens, from wave interference to a market moving to a new equilibrium.
- Unit converterPut a unit converter into the worksheet: show one saved conversion, or let students change the value and the units themselves.
- Image hotspotsMake a picture explorable: put numbered markers on the details that matter, and each marker opens a short explanation right where the detail is.
- Image comparisonLay two pictures of the same scene on top of each other with a divider students drag across, so the difference shows up exactly where it is.
- 3D modelsAdd a 3D model students can turn, zoom and inspect from every side, starting from the view you choose, and let them download the file if you want them to keep it.
- SimulationsAdd a simulation to a lesson so students can change a condition, run the model and compare the results, such as how a pendulum's length changes how fast it swings.
- Calculated columns in tablesLet a data table work out a result for every row from what students enter, with one formula for the whole column and a mean or sum below it.
- Calculations from students' answersTurn students' numeric answers into variables and use them in a formula that works out a result, such as speed from distance and time, as they type.
- Interactive activities made with AIDescribe an activity in your own words and the AI assistant builds it as an interactive item in your worksheet. Students use it right in the lesson, and what they submit is saved in Praktikal.
- Using a learning app in a lessonAdd a published learning app to a lesson, set it up for your class, and add it again with other settings for another class. Students work in the app, their progress is kept, and their submitted work reaches your results.
- Previewing and publishing a learning appWhen your coding agent uploads changes to a learning app, they wait as a draft. Preview the draft yourself, then publish it as the app’s next version.
In the classroom
- Live answers during the lessonWhile you present, open Results on a question and watch the class’s answers appear as students submit them, as a list, a word cloud or a chart.
- Independent work with a deadlineTurn worksheets you already have into an assignment: set when students can start and when answers close, share one link, and follow how far the class has got.
- Points and feedbackReview completed work answer by answer, give points where your judgement is needed, write feedback the student can act on, and publish it all when you finish grading.
- Word cloud and random pickerTwo quick tools for class discussion: a word cloud drawn from any text you type, and a random picker that draws one item from your list. Both can be saved to your materials and opened again.
- Random picker for discussionsSave a list of viewpoints, names or questions and let the random picker draw one, for example the viewpoint a group argues from.
- Shared whiteboardPut a whiteboard in a lesson and the class draws on it together during the presentation: you prepare a starting idea, students add their own, and everyone sees the changes at once.