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Get Started With Stempad: Educator Guide

By Jordan Nguyen
Created on April 28, 2025
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Great teaching often starts with a great plan. But between lesson prep, grading, and classroom management, finding the time for thoughtful planning can feel impossible. That's why we're excited to announce a new way for educators to lighten the load: Stempad Copilot, now integrated directly into the editor.

Copilot acts as your AI-powered teaching assistant inside Stempad. Whether you're drafting tomorrow's lecture, organizing resources for a new unit, or writing feedback for students, Copilot helps you move faster without sacrificing quality.

With Stempad's flexible block-based system and Copilot's AI support, lesson planning becomes less about busywork and more about teaching.

Ways educators are already using Stempad x Copilot

We've previously discussed how educators can use Stempad's general features, but we've provided some tips here for Copilot specifically. Here's how educators are putting Copilot to work:

Build lesson frameworks in minutes
Start with a general topic or rough idea, and Copilot can help expand it into a complete lesson outline with objectives, activities, and discussion prompts.

Simplify complex readings
Drop in a dense article or research paper, and Copilot can generate simplified summaries, pull out key points, generate questions for classroom discussion, and more.

Analyze table data
You can share tables with Copilot to get help analyzing data. This could be especially helpful if you're looking to analyze trends in student grades.

Draft assessments and worksheets
Need a quick quiz, a set of practice problems, or a reflection prompt? Copilot can suggest questions tailored to your content and grade level.

Improve clarity of your materials
Copilot can review your handouts, assignment sheets, or rubrics for grammar, clarity, and tone — helping you communicate more effectively with students and parents.

Work with math equations
Whether you need similar problems to create new worksheets or want to find a way to explain a specific concept, Copilot in Stempad supports math typing in-chat. Send Copilot your math equations without worrying about clarity or formatting to get instant help!

Support science writing and documentation
From lab instructions to project guidelines, Copilot helps draft, revise, and cite technical documents more quickly.

Streamline communications
Use Copilot to draft quick, professional emails — whether you're reaching out to parents, administrators, or colleagues about classroom updates or student progress.

Brainstorm enrichment ideas
Looking for new ways to extend learning beyond the curriculum? Copilot can suggest project ideas, extracurricular activities, or cross-disciplinary lesson plans.


Try it out!

Copilot is not about replacing your voice — it's about giving you a head start. You stay in charge of what you teach and how you teach it. Copilot simply helps you work smarter, save time, and focus more energy on what really matters: your students.

You'll find Copilot live now in your Stempad workspace, ready to assist across a growing range of blocks. Try it out today to spend more time teaching, not typing.

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