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Slate keeps nothing after you close it. Save a lesson to a file to reopen it later.
Plan the lesson, generate a question, check understanding and manage your class without leaving Slate.
Open Dugsy practice without leaving your lesson.
Starts a live 3-choice check when you are teaching live.
Live students are used automatically. You can also keep a manual class list here.
The ruler and protractor sit on the board and can be dragged and turned. Draw along the ruler's edge and your line follows it exactly.
Opens a transparent ink layer over the whole Mac screen. Write over PDFs, websites, PowerPoint or any other app, then turn Ink off to use the app normally.
Pick one, then drag on the board. It appears at the top of the tool rail while it's armed.
Slate can only draw inside its own window. To write over MathsWatch, a PDF or anything else on the Mac, that's Slate Overlay — a separate app. This opens it if it's installed.
With the compass on, drag out from the centre to set the radius, then drag anywhere to sweep an arc — right round to a full circle if you want. The radius stays put, so you can strike the same arc from two points the way you would on paper. Escape puts it away.
Start a lesson and you'll get a PIN. Students open this same address, tap Join, and wait for you to let them in by name.
Stored on this iPad, in this browser. Clearing website data removes them, so keep anything important as a .slate file too.
Applies to this page only. New pages inherit whatever you last chose.