Before a Lesson takes place, Bobbin can help you build a structured Lesson Plan using AI. Lesson Plans are available for any Lesson in the Planned stage.
Generating a Lesson Plan
Open the Lesson from your Lessons list or Dashboard
Click Create Lesson Plan
This opens the AI editor, where you can enter a prompt and AI will generate the Lesson Plan for you. If you'd rather write your own, you can use the plain text editor instead.
You don't have to start from a blank prompt. Some suggested prompts are offered for you to pick and edit, and there are Writing Tips alongside the box if you'd rather write your own.
Building a plan around your own files
If you already have a worksheet, past paper or slides you want to teach from, you can attach them and Bobbin will read them while it drafts the plan.
Below the prompt box, click Attach files
Tick up to five files from your library, or click Upload a file to add a new one
Click Attach files to confirm. The button below the prompt box then shows how many you've attached, for example Files (2/5), and each file appears as a chip you can remove.
You can attach PDFs and images up to 20 MB each. Word and PowerPoint files show Save as a PDF to attach - save them as a PDF first and upload that instead. Files that couldn't be verified as safe can't be attached.
Note: Attaching files is for drafting a new plan. If you teach for more than one agency, you'll need to switch to the agency the Lesson belongs to before you can attach files, because files come from that agency's library.
Planning from the Course Outline
If the Lesson was created from a Course, you can choose which objectives from the Course Outline this session should cover, and have Bobbin build the plan around them. It's usually quicker than describing the session from scratch, and it keeps the plan tied to what's still left to teach.
Where your Student's last Progress Report included Next steps for this Course, those are fed into the plan too, so it picks up from what you agreed last time rather than starting over. Next steps from the Student's other Courses aren't used, so a maths plan isn't built on English next steps.
If your agency uses learning profiles, the plan also takes into account what's recorded about how your Student learns best.
What the Lesson Plan includes
Bobbin generates a structured plan based on the Course Outline (if one exists) and the Student's needs. A typical Lesson Plan covers:
Learning Objectives - what the Student should achieve by the end of the session
Lesson Structure - a timed breakdown including warm-up, guided practice, independent work, and wrap-up
Understanding Checks - suggested ways to check the Student's comprehension during the session
Extra Study Suggestions - optional follow-up activities or resources
Note: The exact shape of a plan depends on the AI content style your organization has chosen. The default produces the sectioned plan described above; other styles give you a timed, block-by-block run-sheet to follow during the Lesson, or a shorter plan that fits on one screen. Your Administrator sets this for the whole organization, and it applies to plans generated from then on rather than rewriting ones you already have.
Editing a Lesson Plan
You can edit any section of the generated plan by hovering over the content and clicking Edit. Changes are saved automatically.
Asking the AI to refine a section keeps it in the shape it already has, so an edit won't reformat the rest of your plan. If you ask the AI to refine a plan that's still empty, it asks you what the Lesson should cover first.
Note: If Bobbin can't produce usable content for a section, nothing is saved over what's already there and you'll be asked to try again - so an edit that doesn't work can't wipe what you'd written.
Downloading a Lesson Plan as a PDF
You can download a Lesson Plan as a PDF to print it or share it offline by clicking the three dots on the Lesson Plan page. Both Administrators and the Tutor assigned to the Lesson can download the plan.
Note: Lesson Plans are visible to Tutors and Administrators. They are not shared with Students or Clients.