Tutors and music teachers
A tutor takes bookings for lessons and shares practice decks.
Teachers and small schools
Your slides, worksheets and lesson videos are in one place. Pupils practise from decks you share, and parents hear from you in one newsletter.
A teacher can work in Personal, and a small school in one Magpie team. Pupils and parents use the links, forms and pages you share.
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This combination of seven Magpie areas fits a teacher or a small school.
- Presentations
- Presentations holds your lesson slides, and publishes them by link.
- Documents
- Documents holds worksheets and handouts, to print or share.
- Screen Recorder
- Screen Recorder makes short lesson videos, with questions beside them.
- Flashcards
- Flashcards gives pupils decks to practise from a link.
- Forms
- Forms takes trip replies and payments, and parent surveys.
- Calendar
- Calendar holds the term's events, with replies for parents' evenings.
- Newsletter
- Newsletter keeps parents informed, from one mailing list.
Your lesson slides are ready to present, and pupils can look back at them.
Presentations holds each lesson's slides, with text, pictures, shapes and arrows. A deck exports as a PDF, one slide per page.
When you publish a deck, anyone with its link can view it. Later changes stay in your draft until you publish again.
Worksheets are printed, or shared by a link anyone can read.
Documents holds worksheets and handouts, with headings, tables and pictures. Each one prints, or downloads as a PDF or a Word file.
A link lets anyone read a worksheet without signing in. A colleague can be given one document to comment on or edit.
A lesson video has its questions beside it.
Screen Recorder records your screen, camera and voice for a lesson pupils watch at home. Anyone with the link can watch it.
A published form can sit beside the video, so pupils answer as they watch. A transcript can sit beside it too.
Pupils practise vocabulary and facts from a deck you share.
Flashcards holds decks of cards, such as basic, fill in the blank and multiple choice. A deck can be shared by a link.
Anyone with the link can flip through the cards, take a quiz or cram. Anyone who signs in studies on a spaced repetition schedule of their own.
Parents reply to a trip, and pay for it, on one form.
Forms builds a trip form with your questions, such as medical needs and a contact number. Every reply comes into one list you can export.
A paid form takes the trip's cost by card, through Stripe, into the school's account. Forms suit parent surveys too.
The term's events are on one calendar, and parents reply to the ones that need it.
Calendar holds the term's events, from an open morning to the trips. Events can go on the school's public calendar.
A parents' evening can take RSVPs, up to the hall's capacity. You can invite parents by email or by a link.
Parents hear from the school in one newsletter.
Newsletter keeps the parents' mailing list, with double opt-in on its sign-up page. A list can be brought in from a CSV file.
You write each issue, send yourself a test and schedule it. Each issue's page counts the copies delivered.
Five more areas cover marks, rooms, posters, staff notices and hiring.
- Spreadsheets
- Spreadsheets keeps a markbook, with formulas such as AVERAGE and XLOOKUP.
- Resource Booking
- Resource Booking lets staff book rooms and the laptop trolley.
- QR Codes
- QR Codes puts a deck or a lesson video on the classroom wall.
- Message Boards
- Message Boards gives the staff a private board for notices.
- Hiring
- Hiring gives a teaching post its own page, with every applicant in one list.
A topic goes from the first lesson to the letter home.
The lesson
You teach from the slides and hand out the worksheet.
At home
Pupils watch the video and answer the questions beside it.
Practice
The vocabulary deck goes out by link.
The trip
Parents reply and pay on the trip form.
The letter home
The newsletter says what the class did and what comes next.
Setting up takes four steps.
Make the first deck
You add cards, or import a list. Help: Study with Flashcards.
Record a lesson
You record your screen and camera. Help: Record your screen.
Connect Stripe
You connect it for trip payments. Help: Connect Stripe to receive money.
Set up the newsletter
You bring in the parents' list. Help: Manage and import newsletter subscribers.
Plans
A teacher on their own fits Pro, in Personal. A small school fits the Team plan, with each teacher a member. Pupils and parents are not added to it.
A Magpie account is for people aged 13 and over. Younger pupils use the links you share. Anyone with a link can read a worksheet, watch a video or practise a deck.
Recordings run up to 30 minutes on a paid plan. Magpie's fee on a paid Form is 1% of each payment. Prices are on the Pricing page.
Other people who teach and learn have pages of their own.
Music, dance and art schools (several teachers)
A music or dance school runs classes, terms and recitals.
Research groups and labs
A research group books instruments and writes papers together.
Questions teachers and schools ask
Can pupils practise from a link?
Yes. Anyone with a shared deck's link can flip through the cards, take a quiz or cram. Their place is kept in that browser.
Can I make fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice cards?
Yes. A card can be basic, fill in the blank or multiple choice. Any card can ask for a typed answer, which Magpie checks before showing the answer.
Can I bring in a word list I already have?
Yes. A deck can be pasted or uploaded as JSON, CSV, TSV or Markdown.
Can pupils answer questions while they watch a lesson video?
Yes. A published form can sit beside the video on its share page. The answers arrive with the form's other responses.
Can parents pay for a school trip online?
Yes. A paid form takes the same amount from each reply, by card, through Stripe. Each reply shows whether it has been paid.
Can parents sign up for a parents' evening?
Yes. The evening's event can take RSVPs up to a capacity. You see every reply, with the parent's email address.
Can I print a worksheet?
Yes. A document prints, or downloads as a PDF or a Word file. It can also be shared by a link anyone can read.
Can I share my slides after the lesson?
Yes. A published deck can be viewed by anyone with its link. It can also be exported as a PDF, one slide per page.
Can we send a newsletter to parents?
Yes. Newsletter keeps the parents' list, with double opt-in. You write each issue in Markdown, send yourself a test and schedule it.
Set up your classroom in Magpie.
Create a Magpie account, and make a team if a school is joining you.