Draft the Year 9 unit from your own outcomes and turn last year's notes into a deck with speaker notes. The grade book and the reference list have editors of their own.
Updated 30 Sept 2026
In short
The Document editor has a Lesson plan template, citations in APA, MLA, Chicago or numeric style, and a References list you can refresh. Slides adds speaker notes, presenter view and PowerPoint export, the Sheet editor has a Grade book template, and chat can turn a topic into a visual lesson or a flashcard deck. You stay the author of every plan, comment and mark.
A unit plan, a lecture deck, a grade book and a reference list usually mean four different programs. In Oppermind each has its own editor in one workspace, and the AI in chat edits whichever one you have open.
This page is written for teachers, TAFE and RTO trainers, lecturers and researchers. Oppermind accounts are for people aged 18 and over, so it is not a tool to hand to school students. For adult learners, the study coach agent below is set up to coach their own study, not to write their assignments.
Workflows
What educators use Oppermind for today
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Plan a lesson from a template
In the Document editor, open "Library" > Templates > "Lesson plan". Paste the content descriptors or learning outcomes you are working from and ask chat to fill in the plan. Select a passage and use "Rewrite" to set the Tone to "Academic" or "Friendly", or the Length to "Shorter".
"Translate" with "Insert translation alongside (side-by-side)" puts a family letter in two languages on one page, and a fluent reader should check it before it goes home. With nothing selected, Rewrite works on the whole plan and keeps each heading and list item in place, though bold and italic inside the rewritten text are lost.
In the Slides editor, "Library" > Templates > "Course lesson" gives you a starting deck, and "Template gallery" > "Training session" suits adult training. With the deck open, ask chat to "add speaker notes to every slide". "Present" (F5) runs the deck, and pressing P opens presenter view with a timer and the next slide.
"Export PPTX" saves a PowerPoint file for the learning management system. To build the deck with a colleague, share it as "Can edit" and each of you takes different slides while you both have it open. Sharing depends on your plan.
Open the Sheet editor and pick "Library" > Templates > "Grade book". Add "Data validation" with a list of grade bands and "Reject (Stop)", so only valid bands go in. "Conditional format" with "Color scale (gradient)" shows the spread at a glance, and a "Pivot table" summarises results by class. Before marks change, take More > "Version history" > "Snapshot now" so you can restore the earlier set.
Where you can, use student numbers or initials in place of full names. "Export XLSX" when reports are due.
In the Document editor, "Citation" inserts an in-text reference in APA, MLA, Chicago or numeric style, and "Bibliography" builds the References list. "Footnote" adds notes, "Bookmark" with "Cross-reference" links sections, and "Mark index entry" with "Insert index" builds an index. More > "TOC" adds a contents page, and "Update fields" refreshes numbering and cross-references after edits.
Right-click a term and choose "Smart lookup" for its Wikipedia summary, which "Insert as footnote" adds with the source, or "Define" for dictionary meanings. Treat a lookup as a starting point and check it against your own sources. "Export Doc" writes the footnotes as Word footnotes, so open the file in Word before you submit it.
Ask chat for a visual lesson, for example "Make a visual lesson on how the water cycle works". It opens in the Visual Learner as a diagram, chart or 3D visual, depending on the topic, and "Play" steps through its scenes. With the lesson open, ask chat to add, reword or remove a scene, and the reply says so when a lesson's steps are fixed and can't be edited. Chat cannot redraw the visual itself.
For revision, ask chat to "make flashcards on the causes of the First World War". The deck opens in Flash Cards. Click a card to reveal the answer, mark it "Got it", "Almost" or "Still learning", and the "Still learning" filter brings back the ones to revisit. Check every answer before an adult learner studies from the deck.
Open Notes from the + button on the dock and press "+ New" for each reading or meeting. Tag a note with # and a word, link it to another with two square brackets around that note's title, and the Backlinks panel under each note lists the notes that point to it. "Extract todos" reads the note and adds an "Extracted todos" checklist at the end.
"Audio note" records a spoken memo into the note, so ask people before you record them. "Export Doc" saves the note as Markdown, Word or PDF for use elsewhere.
In Agents mode, import "Learning and study coach" from Marketplace > Agent templates. It runs a short diagnostic, builds study sessions and changes the next session based on the learner's answers. Import "Document and policy Q&A" as well, give it the approved course material, and tell it to say when an answer is not in the files.
"Research assistant" adds cited briefs on a reading list. Spot-check what each agent produces before learners rely on it.
You remain the author of every lesson plan, report comment and mark. Oppermind drafts from the outcomes and material you give it, and visual lessons and flashcards are drafts too. It does not check curriculum alignment, detect plagiarism or AI-written work, or know your institution's assessment rules.
Student information carries privacy duties, and schools, TAFEs and universities set their own rules on AI. De-identify student work before you upload it, and check your employer's policy first. This page is general information, not legal advice about those obligations. How Oppermind handles uploaded content is set out in the Privacy Policy, including section 5.1a on connected accounts.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Can my students have their own Oppermind accounts?
Accounts are for people aged 18 and over. Adult learners in TAFE, university or workplace training can hold one. School students cannot.
Can Oppermind tell whether an assignment was written by AI?
No. It has no plagiarism or AI-detection feature, so do not use it to judge a student's work on that basis.
Does it check lessons against the Australian Curriculum?
No. It works from the outcomes and descriptors you paste in. Checking alignment is your call, so keep the source descriptors beside the plan while you review it.
Which reference styles can I use?
APA, MLA, Chicago and numeric, chosen when you insert each citation. Sources are stored with the document, so "Re-use existing source" cites one again, and running "Bibliography" again refreshes the References list.
