Colabyard brings live lectures, quizzes, activities, discussions, and collaborative whiteboards together into a single, seamless teaching platform — no more juggling separate tools mid-session. From AI-generated feedback and reflective learning tasks to branching guided scenarios and structured modules, every feature is designed to make live and applied teaching more engaging, without adding extra complexity for trainers. This is everything Colabyard can do, all in one place.

Introduction - ColabYard

Colabyard Quizzes let trainers create and launch interactive quizzes that students join instantly, with answers and results updating live as the session runs. Trainers get real-time insight into performance, with results and motivational feedback shown to students who aren't at the top, keeping the experience encouraging rather than discouraging. Built into the same gamified LMS as GreenBoard and Discussions, Quizzes give trainers a fast, low-friction way to check understanding without breaking the flow of a session.

Quizzes

ColabYard can automatically generate quizzes from a PDF upload or directly from an existing interactive lecture, saving trainers from having to write questions from scratch. The AI reads the source content and produces relevant, ready-to-launch questions that reflect what students actually covered. This turns quiz creation from a time-consuming task into a fast, content-driven process, letting trainers spend more time teaching and less time preparing.

AI Generated Quizzes

Discussions is a real-time group discussion tool where trainers create up to four timed breakout groups, each joinable by its own QR code or link, with optional AI-generated Tutor Prompts that auto-fire during the session or can be triggered on-demand for groups that finish early. Students post sticky notes, react, comment, and see typing indicators live, while trainers moderate from an Observe view with post/word counts, AI-likelihood badges, and per-group engagement tracking. The session wraps up with a cross-group contribution leaderboard, a full-screen presentation mode for debriefs, and options to refresh or clear the board for reuse with a new cohort.

Online Discussions

ColabYard 's Activities section offers a range of interactive exercise formats — including matching pairs, sequence matching, categorisation, and fill-the-blanks — designed to test understanding beyond simple multiple-choice. These formats adapt well to different subject areas, from ordering steps in a coding process or maths problem to sorting concepts in a case study scenario. By giving trainers flexible ways to build hands-on, applied exercises, Activities help students demonstrate real understanding rather than just recognising the right answer.

Activities - Match Pairs

Sequence activities challenge students to arrange a set of items into the correct order, making them ideal for testing process-based understanding like coding steps, mathematical workings, or the stages of a case study. Students drag and drop items into place, get immediate feedback on whether the order is correct, and can refine their answer until it clicks. This format helps trainers move beyond simple recall and assess whether students truly understand how and why steps happen in sequence.

Activities - Seqeunce

Categorisation activities ask students to sort a set of items into the correct groups, making them well suited to testing classification skills across coding, maths, and case study contexts. Students drag and drop each item into its matching category and receive immediate feedback on their choices, reinforcing understanding through active sorting rather than passive recall. This format helps trainers assess whether students can distinguish between related concepts and correctly apply that understanding in context.

Activities - Categorisation

GreenBoard is a live, collaborative smart board built for training sessions, letting trainers set up multi-group breakout boards with QR/link joining, real-time drawing, file attachments, URLs, and Images, while students join by name or anonymously and can export their own PDF copies. Trainers stay in control with live save indicators, board locking, a moderation panel for managing contributions, and optional engagement tracking that reports active time and participation per student. Boards persist beyond the session with automatic image re-hosting, so trainers can reactivate, rename, or revisit them anytime without relying on a student's browser staying open.

GreenBoard - Collaborative Online Board

ColabYard's Live Lectures bring together Quizzes, Activities, Discussions, GreenBoards, and more into one seamless live session, letting trainers move naturally between teaching, checking understanding, and collaborating without switching tools or breaking momentum. Students join instantly via QR code, staying engaged as the session flows from delivery into interactive moments in real time. This makes Live Lectures the connective layer of ColabYard turning a single session into a dynamic, multi-format learning experience rather than a series of disconnected activities.

Interactive Lectures

ColabYard's Live Lectures now include a timeline view available directly during upload and editing, giving trainers a clear visual layout of their lecture from start to finish. This makes it easy to see exactly where in the session to place a Quiz, Activity, Discussion, or GreenBoard, turning session planning into a simple drag-and-drop process rather than guesswork. Combined with the seamless live delivery trainers already rely on, this update makes building an interactive session as easy as running one.

Interactive Lectures - Timeline view

ColabYard's new Reflection task structures post-lecture reflection around Kolb's reflective cycle, guiding students through experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualisation, and active experimentation. Reflective questions are automatically generated by AI based on the specific lecture content, ensuring each prompt is directly relevant rather than generic. This turns reflection from an optional afterthought into a structured, guided process that helps students genuinely consolidate what they've learned and identify how they'll apply it going forward.

Interactive Lectures - Reflection

ColabYard 's Guided Scenario task places students inside a realistic, branching scenario where each decision they make shapes the path and outcome that follows. Rather than testing recall, it challenges students to apply judgement, weigh trade-offs, and consider different stakeholders as a situation unfolds in real time. Built-in scoring and feedback reflect not just what students chose, but the reasoning behind each decision, helping them see how different approaches lead to very different results.

Guided Scenario

ColabYard's Modules let trainers create dedicated module pages that group and link related activities — lectures, quizzes, activities, discussions, and GreenBoards — into one structured, coherent learning path. Rather than managing scattered individual sessions, trainers can organise an entire unit or course around a single page that reflects how the content actually connects. This gives students a clear, guided route through a module from start to finish, while giving trainers a single view to manage and sequence everything within it.

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