Your material, turned into a lesson you can teach
Most teachers already have the content: last year's plan, the department's pacing guide, a textbook chapter saved as a PDF, a useful article or a colleague's PowerPoint. What takes the time is turning it into something ready for tomorrow's class. LessonHQ reads the text in your file and uses it as the basis for a new lesson, so the result follows your material instead of a generic version of the topic.
There are three ways in, depending on what you have and how much you want built.
Three ways to start from your own material
Import an existing lesson plan
On the lesson pack generator, open More options and drop in a Word, PowerPoint, PDF or text file (up to 5 MB). It reads the topic, subject, year group and objectives and fills in the form for you.
Build from your pacing guide or a source
Attach a saved pacing guide, upload a Word, PowerPoint or PDF file, or add a web page link or a YouTube transcript. The slides, worksheet, test or study guide you make then follows that material.
Split a whole pacing guide into lessons
On the slides, worksheet and study guide generators, upload a pacing guide or a lesson PowerPoint, say how many lessons it covers (up to 15) and press Split. You get one resource per lesson, made when you click it, using only what is in your file.
What you can make from a document
A full lesson pack
Slides, a lesson plan, a worksheet, a starter, a plenary and teacher notes, built around the content of your file.
A slide deck
Present in your browser or open and edit it in PowerPoint or Google Slides.
A worksheet or test with an answer key
Questions on exactly what your document covers, with tiers and a full answer key.
A study guide
The key vocabulary, people, dates and ideas from your material on one page.
Good to know
- It reads text. Scanned pages or photos without selectable text may not import; a PDF saved from Word or slides works best.
- Long sources are trimmed to the most useful part (web pages to about 15,000 characters), so attach the section you are teaching rather than a whole textbook.
- You see and can edit the text taken from a web page before anything is generated.
- Everything it makes is a first draft: check it against your source and your class before you teach it.
Questions teachers ask
Which files can I use?
Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx) and PDF files. The lesson pack generator's import also reads plain text files. You can also start from a web page link, or paste a YouTube video's transcript.
Does it copy my document?
No. It reads the text and uses it as the basis for new material: the topic, objectives, key content and order. The output is a new, editable lesson built around what your document covers, so check it against your original before teaching.
Is it free?
Importing an existing lesson plan to fill in the lesson pack form is available to everyone. Building a resource from your own pacing guide, file or web page is included with the Educator, Pro and School plans. Splitting a pacing guide into lessons needs a free account; each lesson's resource then uses one generation from your monthly allowance.
What happens to my file?
The text is extracted and sent to our AI providers to generate the lesson. We never use what you upload to train AI models, and uploaded files only go to providers that do not train on them. See our privacy policy for the full list.
Can I use a scanned PDF?
It needs text it can read. A PDF made from a Word document or slides works; a photo or scan of a page without selectable text may not. If it fails, copy the text into a Word document and upload that.