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Lab
Inside a Module, Lab is where you create Echo, Spark, Flux, and other activities — then assign them to that Module’s Workroom.
What Lab is for
As a teacher, you pick an app card (Echo, Spark, Flux, and so on), walk through setup, and assign the finished task into the Module you are teaching. It then appears on that Module’s Workroom for the class. Students do not create class work from Lab — they use Student Lab inside a Module when they want private practice, which lands in that Module’s Playground.
- Lab is for creating and publishing learning activities
- Workroom is where assigned class tasks live day to day — not Lab
- Marking and moderation sit in Fission; the floating class AI helper is Oracle — neither is created from Lab
Where Lab fits in the Module
Think of the Module as the topic shelf and Lab as the workshop on that shelf. You create here; Workroom is the class noticeboard for what you published; Playground is where students keep private practice tied to the same topic.
| Surface | What happens here |
|---|---|
| Module | The shared topic shelf — create this first on the class home |
| Lab | Choose an app and build an activity inside the Module |
| Workroom | Class-assigned tasks you published from Lab |
| Playground | Student private practice in the same Module |
How you use Lab
- Pick a class in the sidebar. You should already have at least one Module (see the Modules guide).
- On the class home, open the Module you are teaching this week.
- Use the Module strip → Lab, or open Lab from the sidebar while scoped to that Module.
- Click a tool card — Echo, Spark, Flux, Foundry, and so on.
- Work through setup. The Module is usually already selected; choose Practice or assessment, an optional due date, whether Oracle is allowed, and how Socrates should coach.
- Publish or assign. The task card appears in this Module’s Workroom.
- Students open the same Module → Workroom to sit the work. You chase submissions and open results from the Workroom cards.
What you can create from Lab
The main apps sit at the front of the Lab shelf. Others appear after a Coming soon marker — some are already usable there (such as Foundry). Each guide below walks through one app in more detail.
| App | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Echo | Short daily/weekly revision MCQ packs from a lesson |
| Spark | Short-answer tasks with Socrates coaching |
| Flux | Long-form writing with target word count, structure, and argument feedback |
| Foundry | Formative diagnostics and skill pathways (Assay / Temper / Quench) — on the Coming soon shelf but usable |
| Trace | Planning and reflective journalling, with mentor agreements — Coming soon |
| Arcade | Human–AI–human creative/critical cycle — build games, judge with Jury, play in Playground — Coming soon |
| Jury | Live judging, private scores, projected leaderboard — Coming soon |
| Latch | Match-up / shot-listing — drag chips into rows — Coming soon |