For teachers, tutors and self-taught learners
Teaching Tools
Open one, share your screen, teach. Every tool on this page works with no account and nothing to install, and each one remembers what you typed in its address — so a link is a lesson you can send to yourself. The badge on each card says what it takes to put that same instrument on a board of your own.
- Character cardOne character, filling the screen, with its pinyin and meaning.Free Open
- Word bankToday’s vocabulary in one list, character, pinyin and meaning.Free Open
- TimerA countdown the whole room can see.Free Open
- TextAnything you type, as large as the screen allows.Free Open
- Sticky noteA note on screen, in one of six colours.Free Open
- ShapeAn arrow or a box, for pointing at things.Free Open
- Stroke orderWatch any character being written, one stroke at a time.Free · account to save Open
- Tone cardsThe four tones of one syllable, side by side, each with a word you can hear.Free · account to save Open
- Write itA 田字格 grid to write a character in, with the model behind it.Free · account to save Open
- Say itRecord a phrase and see the shape of your pitch against the model.Free · account to save Open
- MatchPair characters with their pinyin. Type your own list.Free · account to save Open
- Build a sentenceScrambled words, and slots to put them back in order.Free · account to save Open
- Pinyin tableEvery syllable Mandarin uses, one initial at a time, each one audible.Free · account to save Open
- Radical tableThe 214 building blocks of Chinese characters, grouped by stroke count.Free · account to save Open
- How it was madeThe six ways a Chinese character is built, with real examples of each.Free · account to save Open
- NumberAny number, written and said the Chinese way.Free · account to save Open
- Fill the blanksA sentence with words taken out, for the class to put back.Free · account to save Open
- Drop zoneA labelled slot with one character in it.Free · account to save Open
- Random pickerPicks a name, without picking the same one twice.Teaching seat Open
- ScoreboardTeam points, kept where everybody can see them.Teaching seat Open
- Quick checkOne question, a few options, and an honest count of the room.Teaching seat Open
Signed in, any of these can be saved onto a teaching board and presented to a circle.