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AlloFlow includes a core lesson workflow and several specialist, accessibility, clinical-adjacent, creative, and technical surfaces. This chapter helps you choose an entry route and understand the boundaries. It is intentionally organized by purpose rather than by a fixed tool count, because the catalog and labels can change.
For a first lesson, begin with Start here. For a practical teaching need, use Classroom workflows.
Choose the right Launch Pad route
| Route | Best starting point for | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Guided Mode | planning and delivering one differentiated lesson | a structured sequence from source through directions, resources, review, and delivery |
| Learning Tools | opening a focused student-facing literacy, STEM, SEL, study, or creative experience | hub and tool choices without building a complete lesson first |
| Educator Tools | teacher, specialist, document, accessibility, behavior, AAC, reporting, and professional workflows | professional surfaces that may require additional policy, training, or configuration |
| Full AlloFlow (sometimes called Full Platform) | experienced users who know the destination | the broad navigation and complete set of available surfaces |
If the app opens directly into another view, use the header or home control to return to the Launch Pad. Labels may vary slightly by deployment.
Use Help Mode and Find a Tool
- Press ? to toggle Help Mode. Hover or focus a supported control to see its purpose and, where available, its shortcut.
- Open the help search from the help area. Ctrl+K may open a command and search palette in deployments that enable that shortcut.
- Use Find a tool when you know the task but not the product name. It narrows the tool list; it does not create anything by itself. When a filter is on, the panel says so and how many tools are hidden. Show all tools clears it, and Hide this panel puts it away, with a slim bar to bring it back.
- Take the guided tour when you want an orientation to the current interface.
- Use the visible Retry action when a tool card reports a loading problem.
Do not rely on an old screenshot to locate a feature. Hubs and routes evolve faster than the teaching workflow.
Find the right family
| Teaching or professional need | Start with | Use with care |
|---|---|---|
| set the grade, language, and other defaults for a whole lesson | Universal Settings | it applies to new work only, so resources you already made keep their old settings |
| adapt a source, build directions, or create a lesson package | Guided Mode, Source Material, configuration, lesson resources | verify every generated claim and preserve the common learning target |
| create a picture or diagram for the content | Lesson Images | check depictions for accuracy and stereotype, and add a text alternative |
| read, understand, or discuss text | Text Adaptation, Glossary, Visual Organizer, Immersive Reader, annotation tools | do not confuse a simpler text with a simpler learning goal |
| check understanding | Quiz, Exit Ticket, Polling, Concept Sort, live activities | use as formative evidence unless a reviewed assessment plan says otherwise |
| teach a synchronized class | Live Session, Group Manager, Teacher Signal controls, Activity Pulse | verify recipients and treat missing responses as possible access problems |
| review class patterns | Teacher Dashboard, learner progress, session summaries | trace summaries back to actual work before making decisions |
| practice sounds, spelling, or word patterns | Word Sounds Studio | use age-respectful materials and coordinate intensive intervention with specialists |
| explore mathematics, science, engineering, coding, or data | STEAM Lab and saved STEAM stations | preview simulations and require reasoning, not just successful interaction |
| teach reflection, relationships, self-management, or digital well-being | SEL Hub and saved SEL stations | do not require personal disclosure; follow school safety procedures |
| support AAC, visual communication, schedules, or social narratives | Symbol Studio | preserve the student’s established system and involve the communication team |
| collect and review observable behavior data | BehaviorLens | authorized team use only; no automatic diagnosis or plan |
| observe response to prompts and scaffolds | Dynamic Assessment | not standardized or diagnostic unless a separate validated process establishes that |
| draft or organize formal report content | Report Writer | authorized professionals must verify every fact, score, interpretation, and recommendation |
| inspect learner access | Accessibility Lab and student preview | automated checks support, but do not replace, human usability testing |
| inspect or remediate a document | PDF Accessibility and document pipeline tools | verify the final file independently; an audit is not certification |
| create accessible classroom graphics or worksheets | AlloStudio | keep real text, reading order, alt text, contrast, and source rights intact |
| create video, cinematic, story, performance, poetry, or music experiences | Video or Cinematic Studio, StoryForge, LitLab, PoetTree, Open Groove Studio | review age appropriateness, captions, flashing or motion, copyright, consent, and attribution |
| research, study, or prepare for a test | Research Hub or lanes, Learning Commons, Test Prep surfaces | verify sources and avoid secure test content |
| configure a deployment or school workflow | Admin or IT documentation and deployment controls | restricted to authorized staff; test privacy, security, retention, and accessibility settings |
Specialist workflow boundaries
BehaviorLens
BehaviorLens can support structured observation, data collection, visualization, and team discussion. Use objective descriptions of what occurred, the context, and the measured dimension. Avoid labels such as “defiant,” “manipulative,” or “attention seeking” when the record does not establish function.
It does not turn a single observation, generated hypothesis, graph, or preference activity into a completed FBA, BIP, diagnosis, or placement decision. Follow district consent, team, qualification, retention, and record procedures.
Dynamic Assessment
Dynamic Assessment surfaces can help an educator observe how a learner responds to prompts, models, feedback, or graduated support. Record the task, support provided, response, and change.
Do not compare generated results with standardized norms unless the actual instrument and manual authorize that interpretation. Use the information to form instructional hypotheses and decide what to observe next.
Report Writer
Report Writer can help organize authorized evidence and draft prose. The responsible professional remains the author.
Before a report leaves draft status:
- verify every score against the source protocol;
- verify descriptors, confidence intervals, dates, names, pronouns, and citations;
- distinguish observed fact, informant report, test result, and interpretation;
- remove unsupported causal or diagnostic language;
- check internal consistency across sections;
- apply district templates and required notices; and
- complete the normal professional and team review.
Do not place identifiable records into an unapproved AI backend or deployment.
Symbol Studio and AAC
Symbol Studio can support communication boards, visual schedules, social narratives, symbol-based activities, and other visual supports. Generated content must be reviewed for meaning, culture, age respect, motor access, visual complexity, and consistency.
The student’s established vocabulary organization, access method, and voice take priority. Durable changes should be made with the student and the responsible AAC or communication team, including the SLP, family, and special educator as applicable.
Accessibility Lab and PDF Accessibility
Accessibility Lab helps teachers preview barriers and inspect the learner experience. PDF and document tools can identify and repair some structural, visual, or text-alternative issues.
No automated result proves that a resource works for every learner or satisfies a legal standard. Test the final student path: keyboard, focus order, headings, reading order, form labels, text alternatives, captions, zoom, reflow, contrast, timing, and comprehension.
SEL Hub
SEL Hub supports instruction and practice; it is not confidential therapy, crisis monitoring, or a substitute for a school mental-health professional. Preview prompts, define privacy expectations, provide an alternate route, and avoid forced disclosure.
If a student communicates a real safety concern, stop treating the exchange as an app activity and follow the school’s human response procedure.
Creative and media studios
AlloStudio, video and cinematic tools, StoryForge, LitLab, PoetTree, and Open Groove Studio support student creation and multiple forms of expression.
Before publication or performance:
- verify facts and source attribution;
- check image, music, voice, and media rights;
- obtain required consent for recognizable students;
- provide captions, transcripts, descriptions, and reduced-motion alternatives;
- review generated depictions for stereotype or bias; and
- give students a meaningful non-recording or non-public option.
Research and test-preparation surfaces
Research tools can help organize questions, sources, notes, and synthesis. Open every cited source and check author, date, evidence, context, and relevance. Generated citations can be incomplete or incorrect.
Test-preparation tools should teach concepts and strategies. Do not upload secure items, reproduce restricted forms, or describe a generated practice score as an official result.
Know where work lives
| Item | What it is | Teacher implication |
|---|---|---|
| Source Material | the text, file, URL content, or prompt used to ground the lesson | use permitted, de-identified content and keep the authoritative original |
| Generated resource | a draft lesson item such as adapted text, glossary, quiz, organizer, or activity | review before students see it |
| History | the resource list or activity state in the current project | titles and old drafts may still expose sensitive content |
| Browser draft or saved state | local or synced state used to resume work | shared devices and profiles need an approved clearing routine |
| Saved resource pack | a generated pack kept on this device, reached through Open saved work | restore, pin, export, or erase it there; on a shared device, erase before handing it on |
| AlloFlow project | a downloadable project file containing included lesson state | store and share it like the most sensitive content inside it |
| Live Session | a temporary classroom connection for delivery, pacing, activities, and evidence | use the approved deployment, recipients, code practice, and close-out routine |
| Session summary | a record or local summary of participation and instructional signals | verify completeness and follow retention policy |
| Export or share | a new student-facing file, package, QR path, or link | preview access and permissions outside teacher mode |
| Annotation file | saved student or teacher notes, highlights, or voice-note references | review for identifying or sensitive information before exchange |
| Dashboard | an aggregate or per-learner view derived from available activity data | use patterns to ask questions, not to create permanent labels |
Save Project is the dependable teacher-controlled backup when available, but it is not a substitute for a district record system. See Privacy and responsible AI.
Keyboard and access quick reference
| Action | Common control |
|---|---|
| Move forward through interactive controls | Tab |
| Move backward | Shift+Tab |
| Activate a focused button or link | Enter; Space for many button-like controls |
| Close the current modal or overlay | Escape when supported |
| Toggle contextual Help Mode | ? |
| Open Help Search | Ctrl+K where enabled |
| Move within a supported menu, tour, slider, or grid | Arrow keys as announced by the control |
| Silence app audio | Mute All Audio in the header |
| Adjust reading presentation | reading theme, text, spacing, ruler, highlighting, or Immersive Reader controls as available |
Keyboard behavior can vary inside simulations and specialized editors. Turn on Help Mode, read the on-screen instructions, and provide an alternate route if a control cannot be operated with the student’s access method.
Product glossary
AAC: Augmentative and alternative communication. Methods and systems that support or replace speech, including symbols, text, gestures, partner-assisted scanning, and speech-generating devices.
Activity Pulse: A teacher-facing live view of activity lifecycle or response status. It helps identify delivery and follow-up needs; it is not a mastery score.
Adapted Text: A version of the source rewritten toward a target reading level. Produced by the Text Adaptation tool. It should change the reading load, not the learning goal.
AI backend: The configured service or local engine that performs generation. Provider, account, data handling, availability, and capabilities depend on deployment.
AlloBot: The in-app assistant. It answers questions in conversation and can offer to open a tool for you. Screen-changing actions are offered rather than performed, so you confirm before the view moves.
AlloFlow project: A downloadable project file used to preserve lesson state for later loading. It may contain source and generated content and should be stored accordingly.
Assignment or package: A reviewed collection of directions, resources, and evidence tasks delivered through an approved share, export, LMS, QR, or live route.
Codename: A classroom alias used to reduce the need for student names in a live workflow. A codename still requires careful handling if the teacher can link it to a student.
Deep link: A direct web address that opens one interactive tool by itself, with no sign-in (for example, a water cycle link a teacher can put in any assignment or message). Every STEAM Lab tool has one.
Deployment: The approved combination of app location, hosting, accounts, AI backend, live-session services, storage, security rules, and retention settings.
Expert Workbench: A Document Builder ribbon tab that applies plain-language structural instructions to a document ("make every heading a proper H2"). The same engine the PDF remediation pathway uses.
Evidence cohort: A temporary grouping suggested from recorded classroom signals, such as incomplete participation, catch-up need, or revision. The teacher must verify the group and its next move.
Generated resource: AI-assisted or tool-produced material that requires teacher review before use.
Guided Mode: A task sequence that leads from source and lesson intent through resources, directions, review, and delivery.
Help Mode: Contextual explanations attached to supported controls, toggled with ?.
Immersive Reader: A reading overlay that can provide read-aloud, highlighting, spacing, focus, or other presentation supports depending on the current build.
Lesson Images: The image generation tool. It creates pictures and diagrams for the content, and can refine or remove text inside an image. Do not confuse it with Visual Organizer, which builds concept maps and diagrams of structure, or with the AAC visual supports used for communication boards and schedules.
OCR: Optical character recognition, which converts an image of text into machine-readable text. OCR output must be checked, especially for tables, formulas, columns, and poor scans.
Source Material: The grounding content for generation. It remains the reference for fact and quotation checks.
Station: A saved or assigned learning-tool experience used in a rotation, center, or independent sequence.
Student-Paced: A live-session mode in which students can move through assigned material with more individual control.
Teacher-Paced: A live-session mode in which the teacher advances or activates the shared classroom experience.
Teacher Signal: A live-session cue, direction, delivery, or status control used to coordinate the class. Confirm the audience before sending.
TTS: Text-to-speech. Voice and language availability depend on the browser, provider, device, and deployment.
UDL: Universal Design for Learning, a planning framework that anticipates variability through multiple routes for engagement, representation, and action or expression.
Universal Settings: The shared defaults every generator inherits, including grade level, output language, translations, standards, interests, Depth of Knowledge, and emoji. They apply to new work only. See Universal Settings.
Worksheet export: The export format that produces a blank copy to write on: ruled answer lines, fill-in bubbles, and a Name and Date header. Contrast with Print / Save as PDF, which produces a finished copy to read. See Documents and printing.
If you cannot find a feature
- Return to the Launch Pad and choose the route that matches the task.
- Press ? for Help Mode.
- Use the help search or Find a Tool.
- Check whether the feature requires Teacher or Educator mode.
- Check loading, AI backend, microphone, or network status.
- Confirm that the district deployment includes and approves the feature.
- Use the fallback and report the exact label and route if it remains unavailable.
For recovery steps, see Troubleshooting. For safe interpretation of dashboard and live evidence, see Review evidence and plan next steps.