Welcome to ZURI-CHALK 🌿

1. 1Register with your email and set a password. Check your inbox for the verification code and enter it to activate your account.
2. 2Set up your school profile: school name, teaching language, curriculum, academic year and terms.
3. 3Complete your curriculum profile when prompted — it links your classes to the right programme and assessment body (CAPS by default).
4. 4Your dashboard is home base — it shows today's lessons, upcoming events, pending approvals, due dates and announcements at a glance.

There is no separate administrator role — you, the teacher, own the school space. Everything school-wide lives on the School page in your menu:

1. 1Open School from the menu. First visit creates your school: name, logo, teaching language, academic year and terms, and whether new enrolments need your approval.
2. 2Curriculum & programmes: CAPS is the default — add Cambridge, IB, IEB and other programmes, then confirm the subjects your school offers per grade (teacher proposals from the Classes page are approved here too).
3. 3People: review pending access requests, set each person’s role (teacher, learner or parent), and invite a parent to a learner’s portfolio with a private child-specific code.
4. 4Announcements: post school-wide notices — exam timetables, sports days, parent evenings — they appear on every Today screen in your school.
5. 5AI tutor settings: manage ChalkMate’s approved sources, review reported errors and withdraw any unreliable answer.
6. 6Shared editing: every teacher in your school can view, edit and remove all school records — lessons, tasks, worksheets, marks, report cards, portfolios, class lists, calendar and more — so anyone can pick up a colleague’s class without waiting.
7. 7Preview as role: switch your own account to learner or parent to walk through their screens, then switch back to Teacher.

1. 1Create a class: give it a name, grade and subject (e.g. "Grade 5A Mathematics").
2. 2Open the class page and use the Invite card — in-app comes first: "Invite learners in-app" and "Invite a parent in-app", then the two WhatsApp buttons.
3. 3In-app invites land straight in the Messages inbox of anyone who has already signed up but hasn’t joined the class yet — one tap to send, no phone numbers needed.
4. 4For everyone else, use the WhatsApp buttons: paste learner numbers and each learner gets a WhatsApp with a personal join link — nothing to type or copy.
5. 5When a learner taps the link, they're taken straight into your class and placed in "pending approval" — even if they've never signed up before.
6. 6Review pending enrolments on the class roster and approve or reject each learner.
7. 7For parents, use Invite a parent in-app or on WhatsApp — both send a one-click link (or a private code) that pre-fills everything; the parent just confirms the privacy consent and they’re linked.
8. 8For young learners, tap Set up code + PIN sign-in to give them a sign-in code and PIN — any grade, no email needed.

1. 1Open the Attendance tab on a class page and pick the date — the register pre-fills itself from the full class list, like a paper register.
2. 2Set each learner Present, Late, Absent, Excused or Left early — colour-coded dots match the paper register: green, yellow, red, blue, orange.
3. 3Add a reason where it helps ("joined 10 min late", "doctor’s note received") — parents can see it too.
4. 4Joining a live lesson captures attendance automatically: the record appears with an "auto" badge, with the joined and left times. Simply signing into ZURI-CHALK never counts as attendance.
5. 5Save the register as a draft while the day runs, then tap Submit register to lock it. After submission, changes need a reason and are kept in an edit log.
6. 6Tap a learner’s bell to notify their parent — in-app first for signed-in parents, then WhatsApp — and export the register as CSV or a print-ready PDF.

1. 1Open the ATP tracker from the teacher menu and pick a class and term.
2. 2Add one row per teaching week straight from your subject's ATP — topic plus any planning notes.
3. 3As the term runs, mark each topic Taught, Moved (to a later week) or Skipped, so the plan always reflects reality.
4. 4Turn any planned topic into a lesson with one tap — the lesson is linked back to the topic automatically.

1. 1Open Timetable from the teacher menu and switch between three views: My Week, By Class and By Subject.
2. 2Add a slot by picking the class, subject, day, start and end time — plus an optional room and notes.
3. 3Fixed activities like breaks, assembly or staff meetings are school-wide slots with no class attached.
4. 4Edit or remove a slot any time — the grid updates instantly for you and every colleague in the school.
5. 5Tap "Add to my calendar" to download your week as an .ics file — it imports straight into Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar, with your school's upcoming events included.

1. 1Build a worksheet from three question types: multiple choice and true/false mark themselves automatically; short answers wait for your own marking.
2. 2Write the correct answer for every auto-marked question — the learner's multiple-choice score is calculated the moment they hand in.
3. 3Publish the worksheet — it lands on your class's learners with a notification, and their submissions start appearing here.
4. 4Open a worksheet to review submissions and see the class stats: average score, question-by-question performance and who needs help.
5. 5Mark the short answers, add a comment per learner, and the final mark appears for the learner and their parents.

1. 1Open the Assessment planner and pick a class to build its formal assessment profile.
2. 2Choose a weighting model — percent (components carry % weights) or points (task marks add to a total) — then add components like Tests, Projects or Tasks.
3. 3Under each component, add the required tasks with their due period and marks — this becomes the year plan for that class.
4. 4Save the profile as active; your marking and report-card work stays school-based and separate from official external results.
5. 5In the Assessment guidelines hub, upload your subject's assessment documents — they're stored for your school and tagged by type so colleagues can find them.

1. 1Open a submission in your Marking queue to see the learner's text answer and/or uploaded file.
2. 2Enter a mark and feedback — the learner and linked parent see it immediately, with a notification.
3. 3Add standout work to the learner's Portfolio (by category and quarter) so parents can see progress over time, not just marks.
4. 4At term end, open Report cards, pick the class and term, and tap Compile marks — each learner's subject averages are built from all marked tasks and worksheets.
5. 5Add a personal comment per learner, then publish — the card appears instantly for the learner and their linked guardians.
6. 6Use the PDF button on any card to generate a clean, printable A4 report for files or hand-outs.

1. 1On a class page, tap Go live to start an online lesson when the school can't open in person. Give it a title and topic.
2. 2Your camera and mic turn on as host; enrolled learners get a "Class is live now" banner with a Join button.
3. 3Inside the room: a video grid of everyone in the class, in-session chat, raise-hand, and the ability to mute participants.
4. 4End the session when the lesson is done — the live banner disappears for learners automatically.
5. 5Attendance is captured automatically from the live room: joined and left times land on the class register with an "auto" badge.
6. 6Use Add material on the class page any time to share a short video clip, an uploaded file, or a link (YouTube, Drive, etc.) learners can open from their class page.

Young learners don’t have email — the Little ones page in your menu gives any learner, any grade, a sign-in code and 4-digit PIN instead.

1. 1Open Little ones and choose the class — each learner gets a sign-in code (e.g. K7M-3QX) with a PIN.
2. 2Tap the share icon to send the sign-in card to the parent — in-app first for signed-in guardians, then WhatsApp, SMS or copy.
3. 3Reset a PIN any time, or pause and resume a learner’s access — handy over holidays or if a device wanders off.
4. 4The child types the code and PIN on the child sign-in screen and gets their own simple home screen: today’s lessons, worksheets and PLAY games — no email involved.

PLAY is the learning-games corner for Grades R–4: five worlds (Discovery World, Little Learners Kingdom, Clever Explorers, Brain Builders, Knowledge Quest) with tap-friendly games mapped to curriculum objectives.

1. 1Open PLAY from your menu — the PLAY Control Centre.
2. 2Pick a class, choose a game and assign it to the whole class or specific learners, with an optional note on the objective you want reinforced.
3. 3Review progress per learner: stars earned, questions answered and the objectives covered — so you can spot who needs help.
4. 4Follow-up ideas suggest what to revise next. Game progress stays separate from formal assessment marks — it’s practice, not grading.

Messages is the in-app inbox for your school — teachers, learners and signed-in parents can all message each other, and the in-app option is always offered before WhatsApp.

1. 1Open Messages from the menu to see your conversations and unread counts.
2. 2Start a new message to a learner or guardian in your classes, or a fellow teacher in your school.
3. 3Class invitations, live-class join codes and attendance notices can all arrive in-app — tap a message to jump straight to the class, the Join page or the parent-link screen.

ChalkMate is the built-in AI study helper for your learners. As teacher, you control what it can use and see what it's doing:

• Approve or remove sources in the Approved Source Registry — ChalkMate only answers from material your school has reviewed.
• Review reported errors and withdraw any answer flagged as unreliable.
• ChalkMate never hands over homework answers directly — it gives hints and guiding questions in homework/task mode, confirming only once the learner has attempted the problem themselves.
• Learners can save good ChalkMate answers to their practice evidence — nothing is automatic. You review and approve them in the tutor dashboard, and approved items join their portfolio.
• Each session ends with a learner-friendly wrap-up (what they practised, what to focus on next) that you can approve into their portfolio.

1. 1On the class page's Voice notes section, tap the mic to record a short spoken message (up to 2 minutes).
2. 2Preview it, add an optional caption, then send it to one learner or the whole class.
3. 3Play back notes learners send you, and withdraw any note if needed — it disappears from the learner's and parent's view.

The AI Studio in your menu turns one topic into ready-to-teach resources. Enter the subject, grade and topic and Chalky analyses it, recommends the tools that suit it best — or pick any of the 12 tools yourself. Every visual tool also draws a clean, age-appropriate illustration to match.

1. 1Enter the subject, grade and topic (e.g. Natural Sciences · Grade 7 · The Water Cycle), then tap "Analyse topic & recommend tools".
2. 2Chalky suggests the 3–5 tools that fit the topic best, each with a one-line reason and exactly what it will produce — plus a suggested flow for combining the tools in a lesson.
3. 3Tap "Use this tool" on a suggestion, or pick any tool from the full grid of 12. Generation can take up to about 30 seconds — a timer with a progress note shows Chalky is working, not frozen.
4. 4Not quite right? Type a change in the Refine box (e.g. "simpler language" or "add a worked example") and Chalky regenerates the resource with your instruction applied.
5. 5Save good resources to My library, Copy the text into docs or email, download any resource as a PDF to print for offline study, and reload saved resources from the library later — you can delete library items you no longer need.
6. 6Shortcut: type a slash command straight into the topic box, like "/DIAGRAM The water cycle", to jump straight to a tool without analysing first.