Novus Learn
Turn a project into a printable lesson with the Teacher Hub
The Teacher Hub at /teachers converts any Novus Learn project into a printable lesson — objectives, key points, a worksheet with an answer key, review cards, and citations — straight from the browser.
Making a handout is not hard, it is just slow, and the slow part is not the writing. It is checking that every statement on the sheet is actually supported by the material you are teaching from, and then producing an answer key that matches.
The Teacher Hub does that job from a project you already built. Whatever the source was — a textbook, a PDF, a slide deck, a Wikipedia topic — it becomes a lesson with objectives, key points, a worksheet, an answer key, review cards, and citations. Because the lesson is assembled from the project's own sources, nothing on the handout is invented.
Contents
Two ways to finish
Class handout
A worksheet and answer key you can print today.
Lesson plan
Objectives and key points structured for teaching, with citations attached.
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1. Build the project first
The Teacher Hub works from a project, so start by making one. Search a topic, read a URL, open a paper, break down a video or a textbook, or upload the material you were given. Any of the nine input modes produces a project the hub can use.
Choose your source with the class in mind. A lesson can only be as good as what it was built from, and the hub will faithfully carry a weak source through to a weak handout rather than quietly improving it.
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2. Generate the lesson
Open /teachers and create a lesson from the project. What comes back is a structured teaching document: learning objectives, key points, a worksheet with an answer key, review cards, and source citations. Everything in it is drawn from the project's sources, which is why the citations are there and why they matter.
Read the objectives first. They tell you what the material actually supports teaching, which is not always what you had planned to teach — and finding that out before the lesson is considerably better than finding it out during.
- Objectives, key points, worksheet, answer key, review cards, citations.
- Everything assembled from the project's sources — nothing invented.
- The objectives tell you what the material can actually support.
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3. Check the worksheet against the answer key
Work the worksheet yourself before you hand it out. This is the fastest way to catch a question that is ambiguous, one whose answer depends on a passage you were not planning to cover, or one that is simply easier or harder than the rest of the sheet.
The answer key carries citations, so any disagreement between you and the key is settled against the source rather than by argument. That is a small thing until a student challenges an answer in front of a class, at which point it is not a small thing at all.
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4. Print, or save to PDF
Lessons print — or save to PDF — straight from the browser using the ordinary print dialog. No plugin, no export service, no account, and nothing uploaded. The document you print is generated on your machine from a project that also only exists on your machine.
Use the browser print preview before committing to paper. Page breaks are where handouts go wrong, and a worksheet whose answer key starts halfway down the same page is a worksheet with a problem.
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5. Keep the citations on the handout
It is tempting to strip citations for tidiness. Resist it. A cited handout teaches students that claims come from somewhere, and it gives the ones who want to go further an obvious next step. It also protects you: a sheet whose every statement traces back to a named source is a sheet you can defend.
For older students this is arguably the more valuable lesson. Where a claim came from and whether the source supports it is a transferable skill; the specific content usually is not.
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6. Pair it with the other artifacts
The lesson is one output among several. The same project also holds flashcards, which download as a printable Markdown answer key carrying prompt, answer, and source for each card — useful as revision material to hand out after the lesson.
Visual Studio adds diagrams, with a full-screen presentation mode you can teach directly from. Between the presentation, the worksheet, and the cards, one project covers the lesson, the practice, and the revision without you assembling three documents by hand.
A handout you can defend
Build the project from a source you would be happy to cite, read the generated objectives to see what the material actually supports, and work the worksheet yourself before printing. Keep the citations on the sheet — they teach where claims come from, and they settle any dispute against the source rather than against you.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to common questions about this topic.
What does a generated lesson contain?
Learning objectives, key points, a worksheet with an answer key, review cards, and source citations — all assembled from the project's own sources rather than written fresh.
Do I need an account or a plugin?
No. Lessons print or save to PDF straight from the browser using the ordinary print dialog. Novus Learn is accountless, and nothing is uploaded.
Which sources can a lesson be built from?
Any project. That includes textbooks, PDFs, slide decks, documents, Wikipedia topics, papers, videos, and indexed sites — all nine input modes produce projects the Teacher Hub can use.
Can I hand out the flashcards too?
Yes. Flashcards download as a printable Markdown answer key with the prompt, the answer, and the source for each card, which works well as post-lesson revision material.