Sharing, printing and homework

A board is private to you until you do something about it. There are three ways to change that, and they are genuinely different: an unlisted link anyone can open, a PDF through your browser’s print dialog, and homework set from what is on a slide. Each has its own rules, so take them one at a time.

An unlisted link

The link is the way to hand a deck to someone who is not in one of your circles — a colleague, a parent, a learner who missed the lesson. It shows the slides, read-only. It does not follow you as you teach; that is presenting, which is a different thing.

1. Press Share — In the header, beside *Present to*. The board has to be saved to your account — the button does not exist on a deck held only in your browser.
2. Press “Create a link” — The panel swaps to show the whole URL, not truncated in a box, so you can read it or select it.
3. Copy it — Copy link puts it on the clipboard and says *Copied*. If your browser blocks that, the text is still selectable.
4. Replace it, or switch it off — New link issues a fresh one and kills every copy of the old. Stop sharing revokes it entirely — every existing copy stops working straight away, and turning sharing on again later gives a different link.

Whoever opens it sees the board’s title, a View only badge, and chevrons to page through. No account, no sign-in wall. They can read the deck and present it full screen on their own machine; they cannot change it. If they have an account, Save a copy makes it a board of their own — which is also the only way to duplicate one of your own boards.

A PDF, or paper

Press the printer icon in the header — it is icon-only, with the tooltip *Print this deck (Save as PDF)*. After a beat your browser’s own print dialog opens; choose Save as PDF as the destination, or a real printer.

What comes out is one landscape page per slide, at the same 16:9 shape as the screen, with content cards resolved and your ink drawn over the top. No header, no rail, no page numbers, no title page — and no slide names, so if a title needs to be on the page, put it on the slide as a Text card.

• It is free, and needs no account — The only thing on the board that is available to absolutely everyone. A signed-out visitor can build a deck and print it.
• It prints the whole deck — There is no “print this slide only” and no handout layout. To print one slide, put it on a board of its own.
• Locked cards print locked — The PDF contains what you can see. A card you are not entitled to prints as the lock, not as the lesson.
• A visitor on a share link cannot print — The control is not on that page.

Setting a slide as homework

Because a card names real content rather than copying it, the platform can set that content as homework and mark it against a learner’s own progress. That is what Assign does.

1. Put content on the slide — Assign only appears when the current slide holds at least one card from the Content column — a lesson, a lesson section, a reading, a grammar point, a culture article, a module lesson. A slide of stickies has nothing to set.
2. Press Assign — The panel reads the slide and lists what it found.
3. Choose the circle — Under *To which circle* — the circles you teach, plus any Buddy Circle you are in.
4. Untick anything you do not want — Everything assignable is ticked to start with. Each row shows the card’s title and where it sends the learner. Anything that cannot be homework is greyed out with the reason beside it.
5. Add a due date and a note — Both optional. The note goes straight onto the learner’s card and into their email, so write it to them: *“Finish before Thursday.”*
6. Press “Set N for the circle” — Every active member gets the assignment on their dashboard under *From your tutor*, and an email linking to the content itself.

Two limits worth knowing before you plan around it: it assigns the current slide, not the deck — walk through the slides and assign each one you want — and it assigns the content the cards point at, not the board itself. There is no way to say *“go and look at this deck”* as homework; for that, send the share link.