The Lessons page shows all the Lessons you are assigned to - past, present, and upcoming - in a single searchable list. Click on any Lesson to open its detail page, where you'll find everything related to that session.

Every Lesson moves through three stages: Planned, Awaiting Report and Complete. If your organization reviews Lesson Reports before they're sent, there's one extra stage, Awaiting Approval, between Awaiting Report and Complete.

The Lesson is scheduled but hasn't happened yet. This is the preparation phase, so use this time to create your Lesson Plan.

The Lesson has ended. Bobbin is processing the transcript and generating AI insights. Once they're ready (usually within 5 minutes), you'll get an email asking you to complete the Lesson Report.

You've submitted the Lesson Report, and it's waiting for an Administrator to review and approve it before it goes to the Client. You don't need to do anything at this stage.

The Lesson Report has been sent to the Client, and the Lesson is fully closed out.

Your agency creates and schedules Lessons in Bobbin, and you can also add, edit, delete and mark complete Lessons on the Courses you teach. A Lesson can't be deleted once it's complete.

Before a Lesson begins, it's worth putting together a Lesson Plan so you know exactly what you'll cover. You can do this any time while the Lesson is in the Planned stage.

A Lesson Plan lets you set out the topics and objectives for the session, helping you stay organized and keeping the Lesson aligned with the Course Outline.

If you create the Lesson from a Course, you can pick which of the Course objectives it should cover and have Bobbin draft the plan around them. Where your Student's last Progress Report included Next steps for this Course, those are fed into the plan for this Lesson too, so it picks up where you left off.

For step-by-step instructions, see Creating a Lesson Plan.

When it's time for a Lesson to begin, click the Join Space button in the top-right corner of the Lesson page. This opens the LessonSpace whiteboard where the session takes place. You go in from your signed-in Bobbin page, so there's nothing separate to log in to. For online Lessons, your Lesson emails also have a Join lesson button.

In the classroom, you start the Lesson yourself and let your Students in from your Waiting to join list. See Running your Lesson in the classroom for how this works, including handing the room over to the next Tutor.

You can also bring a second device, such as an iPad to write on, into a Lesson you're teaching: click Add a device in the classroom and scan the QR code. See Using a second device in a Lesson.

The Lesson page also shows the join links for the Students on that Lesson, so you can send one on if someone can't find their invitation. You'll only see links for your own Students.

Each Student has one link for the whole Course, and it works for every Lesson on that Course, so they can keep using the same link from week to week. A link belongs to one Student - anyone who opens it joins as that Student, which is what keeps attendance and the Lesson insights accurate. Send each Student their own link rather than passing one around.

The library panel in the Lesson space gives you your agency's shared files and folders, the files attached to the Course you're teaching, and your own personal library - all without leaving the whiteboard. You can also attach shared files to the Courses you teach from the resources page.

Anything typed into the chat during a Lesson is kept and shown on the Lesson alongside the transcript, and Bobbin takes it into account when writing up the session. So a Lesson taught largely through the chat box still produces a useful summary and set of insights.

After a Lesson is completed and the transcript has been processed, Bobbin generates the following insights:

About the Lesson:

About each Student:

About you as a Tutor (if enabled by your organization):

These insights feed directly into the Lesson Report, saving you time when writing up your notes.

If a Lesson stopped and restarted, or ran across more than one session, the insights cover the whole Lesson rather than just the last part of it. You can ask for them to be produced again with Regenerate insights — the button responds straight away and the work carries on in the background.

The Transcript tab contains the full transcript of the Lesson alongside the recording (if enabled by your organization). You'll also find Session Analytics here - a breakdown of each participant's talk time and any periods of silence during the session.

Your agency sets how long recordings are kept and which roles can see them. That setting covers the transcript and audio as well as the recording itself, so if you can't see one of them, it will be because of how your agency has set this up. Once a recording passes the retention period it's deleted, but the transcript, insights and Reports are kept.

A Student, or their Client, can also choose not to be recorded, or to have their recordings kept private from families. You'll see their choices on the Lesson recording card on the Student's profile. If a Student has opted out of recording, their Lessons aren't recorded and the Lesson says so.

If your agency has opted into the in-person beta, you can record a face-to-face Lesson from the Bobbin mobile app and get the same transcript and insights you'd get from an online session. See Recording in-person Lessons with the Bobbin app for the full steps.

A few things to expect:

A Lesson doesn't need a usable recording to be finished. If the recording is missing or didn't come through, you can still mark the Lesson complete and write the report yourself — you'll just be starting from a blank page rather than from AI-generated insights. See Completing a Lesson Report.

The Activity tab shows the exact times each Tutor and Student joined and left the Lesson, providing a clear record of attendance. It shows every join and leave, even on long or busy Lessons.

Attendance copes with the messy cases: a Student who refreshes the page, switches device or briefly drops off the connection is still recorded as attending, and someone who leaves and rejoins part way through counts as having been there.

Bobbin can email you shortly before each Lesson starts, in your own timezone, as well as when a Lesson is first scheduled, moved or canceled. Your agency controls which of these go out. Emails about an upcoming Lesson include a calendar invite that updates itself if the Lesson moves or is canceled.

You can turn off the Lesson ready for review and Transcript ready for review emails yourself under Notifications on your profile.

The Bobbin mobile app keeps you signed in for 30 days. It can also send you a daily push notification summarizing the Lessons you have that day. This is switched off unless your agency has enabled it.