Teacher guidance
Reusable prompts, worked examples, review checklists and clear steps for embedding resources safely.
The EllivEd approach
AI assists. Teachers decide.
EllivEd does not replace books, pens, discussion, imagination or teacher expertise. It helps a teacher transform carefully chosen content into consistent resources that are easier to access, adapt and share.
- Begin with clear curriculum intent and teacher-approved material.
- Keep expectations high while improving access and independence.
- Review every generated answer, instruction and interaction.
- Protect pupil data and avoid unnecessary accounts or tracking.
- Provide a practical fallback when technology is unavailable.
Origin story
From one useful prompt to EllivEd.
EllivEd is made by Inkling, a practising teacher. It did not begin as a technology project or a plan to replace teacher expertise. It grew from using AI to think more clearly, make stronger resources and solve genuine classroom problems.
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A practical first step
Inkling first tried ChatGPT while writing reports for a summer school. It was useful but basic, and afterwards AI largely disappeared from her working life for a while.
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A thinking partner for teaching
She returned to AI to develop ideas, examine why lessons had or had not worked and talk through possible approaches. Its role gradually widened to careful analysis of fully anonymised information, always with professional judgement and data protection kept firmly in view.
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See one, do one, teach one: in turbo
Inkling became involved in a project helping people use AI. It was not an education project and it was a baptism of fire into something she knew almost nothing about at first. As the project grew, she realised that her teaching experience gave her a powerful way through it: try something, understand it and then teach someone else how to do it. “See one, do one, teach one” in turbo.
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Opening Codex for the first time
Inkling had never coded and found the idea of code, embeds and technical tools genuinely overwhelming. She opened Codex anyway. Small experiments became working pages, and each solved problem made the next one feel possible.
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The first substantial school build
A set of department booklets became the first major school-facing project. As Inkling’s ideas for co-creating resources with AI grew, she realised she wanted to share this side of the technology too. That became the beginning of EllivEd.
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From individual resources to a growing workshop
The work expanded into sustained lesson planning, image banks, slide decks, accessible versions and interactive pupil resources across the curriculum. Whole-school ideas followed, including ClassRelay and other practical tools shaped around the realities of teachers’ working lives.
The public collection may be new. The practice behind it is not. EllivEd brings that learning into one developing, teacher-led place: honest about what AI can do, careful about what it should do, and always grounded in real classrooms.
Under construction, with purpose
What is being built next?
EllivEd is a working doorway rather than a finished catalogue. These areas will be developed and tested before they are presented as complete.
Example library
Short recordings, screenshots and downloadable starting points showing different kinds of classroom interaction.
Accessibility guidance
Testing notes and practical guidance for readable layouts, keyboard access, translation, read-aloud support and printable alternatives.
From one source to many
Ways to create aligned main, scaffolded, translated, dyslexia-friendly and printable versions without allowing them to drift apart.
EllivCrafter
A teacher-facing workshop for adapting approved content and creating shareable, accessible classroom Crafts. One bank. Many Crafts.
Student Teacher Survival Pack
Observation planning, reflective writing, mentor conversations and practical early-career support.
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