Notes on teaching, and the work around it
Writing for tutors, coaching institutes and schools: running a class without drowning in admin, designing assessments worth taking, and using new tools without letting them take over the teaching.
How to run a coaching class without drowning in paperwork
Attendance registers, fee diaries, WhatsApp groups and photocopied worksheets. Here is how small institutes replace all of it with one system, without losing the personal touch.
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Why your class needs its own space, not another WhatsApp group
Group chats are wonderful for conversation and terrible for coursework. A look at what breaks as your batch grows, and what to do instead.
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Using AI in teaching without losing the teacher
AI can draft lessons, transcribe spoken answers and suggest marks. Here is where it genuinely helps, and where handing over is a mistake.
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White-label classrooms: why your students should see your name
If you have spent years building a reputation locally, your software should not spend it for you. A short case for branding your own class.
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Designing a class test students actually learn from
Mixing question types, marking quickly and returning papers while the material is still warm. Practical notes on assessment design for small classes.
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Build your first course on TopperBatch in ten minutes
A screenshot-by-screenshot walkthrough: from an empty console to a course with a structure, a lesson and a class code students can join with.
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Every widget in the Content Studio, and when to use which
Seventeen widget types, grouped into Content, Media and Practice. What each one does, the format it expects, and the mistake people make with it.
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Getting your students in: three ways to enrol a class
A class code, a class list, or a pasted spreadsheet. Which to use for a batch of five, fifty or five hundred — and how approval actually works.
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What we fixed: making the class list fast for a thousand students
The instructor inbox was issuing two database queries per enrolled student. At 120 students that was 261 queries a page load. Here is the diagnosis, the fix and the numbers.
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What's new: the Content Studio is now a real course builder
Editable everything, eight course shapes, drag-and-drop, duplication, insert-in-the-middle and a true student preview. Plus the course-code bug that was blocking new instructors.
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For students: your first week on TopperBatch
Joining a class, finding your lessons, knowing what is required, and understanding how your marks appear. Share this link with a new batch.
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A worked example: turning a lecture website into a live course
A university course already published as a static site — 44 lectures, slides, quizzes and homework. What it takes to bring it into a classroom your students can actually submit work in.
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