The Teacher Hub: printable, source-cited lessons

A lesson from a topic, in one step

Open the Teacher Hub for any project and Novus Learn composes a lesson from its study set: an overview, key points, a slide outline, a worksheet built from the quiz, an answer key, a glossary, and the flashcards — all from the same source, all cited.

The point of the one-step version is not that it is finished. It is that the tedious part — turning source material into a shape you can teach from — is done before you start editing, so your time goes into the judgement calls rather than into formatting.

It is also, deliberately, a lesson rather than a pile of resources. The sections arrive in a teachable order, the worksheet matches the key points, and the answer key matches the worksheet. Assembling those pieces so they agree with each other is most of the work in lesson prep, and it is exactly the sort of work that is both time-consuming and completely mechanical.

Editable, and yours to shape

Reorder sections, hide the ones you don't need, add your own notes, and set the title and objectives. Your edits are saved locally, so the lesson is ready the next time you open it on the same device — this is the same accountless storage the rest of the app uses.

There's a timed teaching plan too: warm-up through wrap-up, each stage with suggested minutes and a detail line drawn from the material. Treat the minutes as a starting point rather than a timetable; they're there so the shape of the period is visible at a glance.

Student copy vs teacher copy

Switching to the student copy is not just a print setting — it produces a genuinely different document. Three section kinds are teacher-only and never appear in a student copy:

• The timed teaching plan, which is for running the lesson, not for sitting it.
• The answer key to the worksheet.
• The slide outline, which is presentation scaffolding.

What the student copy becomes

With the teaching aids removed, the remaining sections are reframed in a learner's voice and labelled as a study guide rather than a lesson plan. Your private notes are stripped. What's left is something you can hand out without redacting anything by hand.

You can also filter by difficulty — foundational, standard or advanced — to produce a version pitched at a particular group from the same source material. Print either copy, or save it as a PDF straight from the browser; the print stylesheet is written for it, so what comes out is a document rather than a screenshot of an app.

Everything stays cited

Each section keeps its link back to the source material it came from, and the lesson carries a source list. This is the part that matters for a classroom: a handout that cites its source is one a student can check and a colleague can review, and it models the behaviour you are presumably trying to teach.

Worksheet questions come from the generated quiz, so each one has a real claim behind it and the answer key is the source's answer rather than an editorial one. The glossary is built the same way, from terms the source actually defined, which is why it is sometimes shorter than you'd like — a term the source used without defining doesn't get an invented definition.

Forty minutes, from a topic

Concretely, what a period built this way looks like. Open a topic you were going to teach anyway and generate the lesson. Read the timed plan first and cut it — the generated version is usually more than fits, and deciding what to drop is faster than deciding what to include.

Rewrite the objectives in your own words, because they're the one part that has to match your class rather than the source. Hide the sections you won't use. Add a note or two where you know the sticking points are. Then print the teacher copy for yourself and the student copy for the room.

The realistic saving isn't in the teaching, it's in the preparation: the twenty minutes usually spent turning a source into a worksheet, a set of key points and a matching answer key. What you're left to spend time on is the part that actually needed you — the sequencing, the examples, and knowing which bit this particular group will find hard.

What it won't do for you

It doesn't know your curriculum, your standards, or your class. Objectives start from the material and are meant to be rewritten in your own terms — the editor exists precisely because the generated version cannot know what you're actually assessing.

Lesson plans live on the device you made them on. There's no shared staff account and no cloud sync, so a plan built on a classroom machine isn't waiting for you at home. Printing or saving a PDF is the way to move one, and it's worth knowing that before you build a term's worth on a shared computer.