Tools
Browser tools by Sam Gilson: research tools for assignment design, documents and building with a coding agent, and classroom tools for practice, assessment and feedback. Each tile opens the tool straight away, and Read more describes it. Using these tools in a school says what each one sends and keeps. Games · All tools and games
Research tools
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Builder
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A template, agent instructions and one check command for building small browser tools with a coding agent, with every rule in a tested Rust core.
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Perturbation Workbench
Record questions, rubrics, and chatbot attempts during iterative assignment perturbation.
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PDF Redactor
Find identifiers, review redaction boxes, and export a rebuilt PDF in your browser.
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YouTube to MP3
Record the sound of a YouTube video in your browser and save it as an MP3, for pulling audio clips into presentations and other research materials.
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MP4 to Transcript
Turn a recording into a transcript laid out like Zoom's, with each voice given an anonymous number, in your browser.
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PDF Signature Adder
Sign a PDF on your iPad or laptop with a drawn or pasted signature, and save the signed copy, without uploading it anywhere.
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Classroom tools
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BT Lab
A classroom demo of how a behavior tree becomes key presses, one tick at a time, using the opponents from Vagrancy.
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Packet Alley
Watch packets move on a network and solve TCP/IP challenges: address a packet, swap a hub for a switch, fix a route, open a connection.
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Circus Math Lab
Three math-circle toys inside a circus game: plot a function by bouncing, integrate a flight with popcorn, and check a juggling pattern.
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Practice Results
Students practise a question set and save a result file; the teacher opens the files together to see which topics to reteach.
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Warm-ups and Exit Tickets
Build a warm-up or an exit ticket from a question bank, chosen by source document and Depth of Knowledge level.
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Feedback Drafts
Pick a level for each criterion of your own rubric and get a feedback draft to edit and copy, built from the comments you wrote.
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Research Discovery Lab
A follow-along lab for setting up research profiles, author records, crawling checks, and discovery tests.
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Status Trends
Open a tracker or gradebook export and see items per year, quarter or month by status, the change between periods, and the risks, all inside the browser tab.