Teaching on Befundo

A one-minute look at where your classes, messages and help are. It is offered once on your dashboard, and you can take it again from Help or the menu under your picture.

A business invites you by email. Sign up (or sign in) with that address and the invitation is waiting under Account → Invitations. That notification can't be switched off, so it won't get lost among everything else.

The same account can teach for several businesses, take classes itself, and be a parent. Nothing needs separating.

My classes shows the classes assigned to you — only those, not everything the business runs. Your dashboard, calendar and Today/This week all follow the same rule.

Teaching → My hourshas a panel for each business you teach for. Give each day one or more windows; the business's opening hours are shown beside each day, and your hours count only inside them. Until you save, the form starts from the business's hours. Add the dates you can't teach under Time off. Your classes, events, the business's closed days and your time off are taken out automatically — what is left is your free time. An admin of the business can also set your hours for you.

Saving confirms your hours. Once they were confirmed more than 30 days ago they stop counting as free time, and your dashboard asks Are these still your hours? Press Yes, still right, or change them and save. In the iPhone and Android apps, Me → My hours shows them and Today asks; confirming is one press there, and changing them is on the web.

Teaching → Instructor page is yours, not the business's. A bio, subjects, experience and photos, plus optional sections — how you teach, who you teach best, and the questions families ask. It stays with you if you move between businesses.

Design your pageon the same screen writes a profile in your own voice from a few sentences about you. Your credentials appear exactly as you list them, and the AI adds no qualifications, years or awards you didn't mention. Nothing changes on your live page until you preview and publish it.

It isn't visible until you publish it. Once live it's linked from the classes you teach.

Only families who attended a class you taught. You can reply once to each review.

Ask Befundo in the bottom-right corner answers questions about the classes you teach and can propose a change for you to approve — it never makes one itself. It's part of the AI features on Growth and above. See the Ask Befundo guide.

A class carries its own menu — in the sidebar on a computer, along the top on a phone. Board for what's live, Messages for the conversation, Meetings, Members for who's in it, Course for what it covers, Work for what you have set, and Settings if you administer the business.

On the class header, New opens the things you probably came to do: a meeting, a post, a notice, a resource, an announcement.

If your own child is in a class you teach, you have two pages for it and it is the route that chooses. Reached from Teaching or from your business, it is the teacher's page: the sets you have made, and who has finished them. Reached from My Kidsthrough that child, it is the family's: your child's work, with a Start on anything owed.

The controls follow the same rule, so a class opened through your child carries no Edit, no New and no Settings — you are a parent while you are there. Everything is back the moment you open it from Teaching.

Anyone in the class can start a topic and reply — you, students and their parents. You can restrict who starts topics, and you can hide a message that shouldn't be there. Hiding leaves a tombstone and can be undone; only the author can actually delete their own words.

For something families need to know rather than discuss — a week off, a change of room, kit to bring. It reaches their notifications and pins to the top of the board, above the topics. Send it from the class page itself, above the board — that is your route to one, and it is fixed to that class.

You can announce to the classes assigned to you, and not to the whole business— that stays with the owner. An announcement can't be recalled, and a notice sent to every household a business teaches is a bigger thing than a notice to your class.

Nobody can reply. Families ask on the board underneath, which is why it stays open beneath every notice.

In the class's Messages, press + and then Poll. Write a question and up to ten options, and choose One vote per family or One vote per student. Families are told a poll was posted, without the question. You need to be assigned to the class; you don't vote in your own poll, and only you can End poll early. With Hide voter names on, nobody sees who voted, you included.

Teaching → Surveys lets you ask the adults of the classes assigned to you a few questions, with a due date; never the whole business, which stays with the owner. Children are never asked. Once sent, only Close now and a later due date are possible. An anonymous survey shows nothing until five people have answered. Surveys are written and read on the web.

Links or uploaded files — PDF, image or MP4, up to 50 MB. Post them to the class, or to a specific meeting so a family looking for “the handout from the 14th” finds it there.

Assignments, forms, permission slips, reminders and payment nudges, from New on the class header. Anything that collects answers tracks who still owes one. A parent with two children in the class owes two responses, not one.

The Work page is three tabs. Sets is everything this class has been asked to answer, with how many have finished each one, Answers to read them and Assign to more to give the same set to another student — the same set, so all the answers stay on one page. Resources & content is the material. Notices is everything you have put up that asks nothing back.

Nothing appears on two of them: what asks for an answer is under Sets and what asks nothing is under Notices, and the split is the activity itself rather than a judgment.

On Sets, press Set a test, quiz or practice. Tick the topics, choose practice, quiz or test and how many questions, pick who gets it, and Preview shows you the actual questions before anybody sees them.

The count is a ceiling rather than a quota — the set is shorter if the topics you picked have fewer approved questions between them, and Morebeside a topic writes new ones. Once it is set, open it to print a paper copy; the printed sheet has a line for the student's name and never the answers.

On a multiple-choice or yes/no question you can fill in the right answer. Leave it blank and the question is just a question, which is how every form and permission slip stays as it was.

Where you set one, the student sees how they did as soon as they've answered — and only they and their family see it. It is never averaged across the class and never earns points. Written answers are never marked: catching “eight” against “8” is beyond a string comparison, and being told you're wrong when you aren't is worse than no mark.

From a class's Memberstab, click a student. You get their attendance across the whole class — meeting by meeting, with a percentage over the meetings you actually took attendance for — and somewhere to write notes about how they're getting on.

The family and the student both read your notes, which is worth pausing on before you write. You can correct one and it will show as edited; you can't delete one, so it is the kind of thing to write as though it will be read carefully, because it will be.

The syllabus builder is on the class's Course tab as well as the business page, because the business area is admin-only — this is the route by which the person teaching a class can write what it covers.

They come from the class schedule, provided the business has set its time zone. If the meetings card is empty and you're staff, the page tells you why.

Post an eventon the class board's calendar card. Pick what kind it is, when, and where — a place, a link to join online, or both — and add a poster if you have one. The class's families are told, it goes on their calendars, and they're reminded the day before. If it moves or is canceled, they're told that too.

Name who families should ask, and they get a button to message that person. Pin the answer to a question you keep being asked and everyone sees it. An owner can post an event for every family at the business from the business home.

Choose whether to ask who's coming — with guests for a show — and only you see the replies. For a trip, turn on Needs a permission slip and families sign it for each child from their Tasks. Print poster gives you a sheet with a code that opens the event.

Calendar → Create my link gives you a link to subscribe to, and the classes you teach appear in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook beside everything else. It keeps itself up to date, so a rescheduled meeting moves on its own.

A strip at the top shows the one meeting that needs you and the one thing to do with it — start the session, take attendance, or wrap it up. It disappears when there's nothing on.

Open a meeting and mark each student present, late, absent or excused (the family told you in advance — it neither counts as there nor as missed). Teaching a camp session, its camp page also has a roster and check-in and out at the door for your own sessions. For a class that meets entirely online the video call pre-fills it and shows how long each person was on the call; you can change anything. If your class meets in a room — or partly in a room — rows start blank, because the call can't tell someone sitting in front of you from someone who stayed home. Families see only their own children.

When a meeting finishes you'll get a notification saying so, whether or not it had a video room. It takes you to the meeting page, which is where all of it lives: attendance, your notes, and the summary. Nothing reaches families until you publish it. You'll get a second notification when the summary itself is ready — that can be a few minutes later, or the next morning for a class with no recording.

A sentence or two on the meeting page. Families are notified the first time you write notes on a meeting, and it shows on the class page underneath that meeting.

If the class has a syllabus, the meeting page lists it with a checkbox against each part. Tick what you got through. Nothing is guessed from the calendar — the nth meeting is not assumed to be the nth topic, because that breaks the first week anyone cancels.

Two things come of it. Families see a running coveredcount on the class's Course tab, and if summaries are on, the write-up can say what the lesson was actually about instead of only who turned up.

A catch-up or an extra rehearsal. Tick Meet online to give it a video room even if the class normally meets in person. Adding an upcoming meeting tells the whole class, parents included — the same way canceling and moving one does. A meeting you add for a date that has already passed is recorded quietly, so you can write up a session you have already taught without asking anybody to attend it.

The Befundo app does the parts you do standing up: join the room, share what is on your screen, start and end the session, take attendance without leaving the call, and publish the summary. Moving or canceling a meeting, ticking off the syllabus and setting homework stay on the web, where there is room for them.

Both tell the whole class, parents included. Canceling takes an optional reason and can be undone — the meeting stays visible, marked canceled, so families know not to turn up.

For you and for families alike. Go in early to check your camera — being in the room doesn't tell anyone the class has started.

Start becomes available five minutes before the scheduled time — not earlier, because it notifies the whole class. Families immediately see “Live now” and a Join button, and get a notification with a link into the room. Pressing it twice doesn't send two. Starting late is fine.

Video and a chat panel. Chat is saved against the session, so somebody joining late reads what was said and anything reported can be read afterwards. As staff you can remove participants.

The screen-share button is beside the camera and microphone. What you share takes the whole stage and the faces drop to a strip, so a diagram is readable rather than a thumbnail.

Only staff get the button.A room holds a dozen children and a screen is whatever happens to be on it — a notification, an open tab. It is absent for students rather than disabled, so nobody has to read a control explaining why it won't work for them.

Families watching on a phone see your share; they cannot publish one themselves, which is an iOS limitation rather than a rule.

Press Whiteboardand the class sees it — it goes on everybody's screen at once, the same way a shared screen does, and comes off again when you press Video. Only you can draw on it; for everybody else it is a picture, and they have no whiteboard button of their own, so what they are looking at is whatever you put in front of them.

You can draw from an iPad as well as a computer. Worth knowing which way round you are: an iPad gives you freehand in six colors, and every device shows that back exactly. A computer gives you the whole toolbox — shapes, text, arrows, images — and a family watching on a phone sees a plainer version of it, with anything it can't draw named rather than silently missing.

You don't need to share your screen to show it. The board already reaches everybody, sharp and live. Sharing your screen does the opposite of what you might expect: the shared screen takes the stage and the board goes underneath it until you stop sharing — and sharing the Befundo tab itself only shows the class a blurry picture of the room they are already in. Use Whiteboard for drawing live, and Share screen for everything else: slides, a website, a document, or a different drawing app you prefer.

Nothing about the board outlives the class. A reload no longer loses it — close the tab by accident, come back, and the board is where you left it, give or take the last few seconds. But ending the class ends the board, and it appears on no page afterwards. If it is worth keeping, save a picture of it before you finish — and note that wiping it with Clear wipes it for everybody, with no undo and nothing kept.

A started session stays open while anybody is in it, so overrunning won't lock anyone out. If you forget, it closes once the room has been empty for ten minutes. That includes a session you started and nobody joined.

An online session is transcribed and turned into a written summary you review and edit on the meeting page before families see it. Nothing is published automatically, and families who haven't consented can't join. In a Befundo room no audio or video is kept; on Zoom, Meet or Teams no video is recorded, and the audio and transcript are deleted once the summary exists.

You can switch recaps on for any class, not just online ones. There's nothing to transcribe when there's no call, so the summary is written from what the class already records — attendance, the work you set for that meeting, and your own notes. Nothing is recorded, so families aren't asked to consent to anything, and you still review and publish it yourself. If a meeting has nothing on it, you get no draft rather than an invented one.

Quest For Spark is Befundo's own curriculum, and a business chooses whether to take it. Many teach their own material instead, which is a perfectly normal way to run on Befundo.

If yours hasn't taken it, none of the screens below exist for you — no Skill progress card, no lesson to read, no skill picker on the syllabus. That isn't something broken.It is your business's decision, and the owner can change it from Settings → Integrations.

Every skill has a written lesson: the idea, a worked example, and the mistakes students actually make on it. Open it from the class's Course tab or from the skill itself.

Read it first: the class sees it only once you mark the topic covered. Check the mathematics before you use it — you are the last reader between the material and the class, and that is deliberate.

In math, science and English, a lesson for a younger reader is a few short steps with pictures Befundo draws from the numbers in it, and Read to mereads it aloud with a voice on the reader's own device. Your teaching notes are never shown to the class or read out.

From Work on the class board you can build a practice set, quiz or test from the topics you tick, and Befundo spreads the questions across them rather than taking them all from the first.

After a meeting, the wrap-up builder offers revision drawn from what you ticked as covered. Each child gets their own, from what they have shown so far — two students in one class usually get different questions, and a topic with nothing approved is named for you rather than quietly dropped.

Each student page carries a Skill progress card. Not a mark out of ten: for each skill it says whether they have the concept, the method, can apply it, and can explain it — and not assessed is its own answer, distinct from zero.

Befundo suggests the next skill with the chain of prerequisites behind it. You accept, change or skip it. Asking for a hint never costs a child anything, and nothing here is ever shown to their family or compared with another child.

Befundo works in your phone's browser today — same address, same account. The Android app is on Google Play; the iPhone app, which iPads run as well, is on its way to the App Store. The On every deviceguide shows what each one looks like, and where a class's pages are on it.

The day, and the answers somebody is waiting on: what you are teaching today, your class boards, messages from families, notifications, and taking attendance.

Being able to see whether a family has been waiting since Tuesday while you are standing in a hall is the reason any of this is on a phone.

A class's own details — name, description, price, category, and above all the day and time it repeats — are deliberately desk work. Nobody edits a recurrence rule on a bus, and a mistake in one moves every future meeting.

Its settings are a different matter and do travel: minimum and maximum students, whether it is listed, whether families may start topics.

The whiteboard is the one place a tablet beats a computer. In a live class, on an iPad — in the app or in a browser — you have freehand in six colors, with every family seeing it as you draw. A computer gives you the fuller toolbox — shapes, text, arrows, images.

The iPhone app gives you the same pen, though a 6-inch screen is a cramped one to teach on. The Android app shows the board and does not draw on it.

Pricing, billing, the landing page, the full student list, the payments ledger, the business's opening hours and how full each week is belong to the owner. Anything instructor-facing lives on the class board instead.

You can edit a class you're assigned to. A colleague's class you can post on, but not re-price or re-list.

You can see what a class charges — it's on the listing — but the business's book is the owner's. See the owner's guide.