Prompts for classroom teaching
Replace the details in each prompt with your own subject, year group and topic. The more you say about your class, the closer the first draft will be.Lesson with an exit ticket
Your assistant uses the Classroom lesson recipe: a starter, short teaching chunks, a check for understanding after each chunk, a practice task and an exit ticket. “Create a 45-minute lesson for Year 8 on the water cycle. Start with a quick starter question, teach it in three short chunks with a quiz question after each, and finish with a three-question exit ticket and a scale asking how well they understand it now.” Open the exit ticket answers after class to see who needs help next lesson. The recipe keeps quizzes low-stakes and adds a leaderboard only if you ask for one.Worksheet or PDF to quiz
Attach the worksheet, or paste its text, and ask for a quiz built from it. The questions and correct answers come from your document, not from the AI’s general knowledge. “Here is my worksheet on fractions. Make a 10-question quiz from it with four answer options each. Use only what is in the worksheet, and make the wrong options mistakes students really make.”Your AI assistant reads the file, so this works only if your assistant can open the type of file you attach. If it can’t, paste the text into the chat instead.
Quiz with a leaderboard after each question
Use this for revision games and end-of-topic challenges. You can also ask for the Quiz game recipe, which plans rounds of questions with a leaderboard after each round. “Build a 10-question quiz on irregular past tense verbs for a class of 11-year-olds. For each question, add a short content slide that introduces the topic, then the quiz question, then a leaderboard slide. Finish with a final leaderboard.”Score report for each student
Your assistant can analyse a session you have already run and show how each participant scored. For the names to be useful, ask students to join with the same name every time, such as class and number (7B-14).
“Look at my ‘Fractions revision’ presentation and show each participant’s score for the most recent session as a table, with the highest score first. Add how many questions each of them got right.”
The report uses the name each student typed when joining. A student who joined with a different name for each session appears as a separate person, and students who joined without a name can’t be told apart.
Reteach deck from the weakest questions
Do this in two steps in the same chat: find the weak spots, then build the lesson that fixes them. “Look at my last ‘Fractions revision’ session and find the three questions the fewest students got right. Then create a short reteach presentation that explains each of those ideas in simple steps and checks understanding with a new quiz question for each.”PowerPoint lesson with live quizzes
Ask for a PowerPoint (.pptx) file with live AhaSlides quiz questions built in. Students answer on their own devices while you teach from PowerPoint. “Create a PowerPoint presentation on the Roman Empire for Year 7. Include a live multiple choice quiz after each section and a word cloud at the start asking what they already know.” The quizzes run live only in the PowerPoint desktop app with the AhaSlides add-in. See Create a PowerPoint deck with live AhaSlides slides for what you need.Self-study course for students
Your assistant can use the Secondary school course recipe to build a course of short lessons with frequent checks, for students aged about 11 to 18. To plan lessons that climb from remembering facts to applying them, ask for the Bloom’s taxonomy course recipe. “Using the Secondary school course recipe, create a course on photosynthesis for Year 9 with five short lessons.”Use built-in recipes and save your own
A recipe is a saved set of instructions that tells your assistant how to build a certain kind of presentation or course. To see what’s available, ask: “What AhaSlides recipes do you have?” The built-in recipes for teaching are:- Classroom lesson: a lesson with a starter, checks for understanding and an exit ticket
- Quiz game: a live quiz with scores and a leaderboard
- Secondary school course: short lessons with frequent checks for students aged about 11 to 18
- Bloom’s taxonomy course: lessons that climb from remembering facts to applying them