Establish the foundations for successful classroom training with the iorad tutorial builder. iorad lets teachers create interactive, click-through tutorials that students complete before class, walking through the exact process they need during the lesson at their own pace and schedule.
Students click through each step themselves rather than watching a video, which means they're more likely to complete the pre-work and arrive ready for deeper instruction. Teachers using iorad for flipped classroom prep report that live sessions become more focused because students show up with the basics already handled.
Why Interactive Tutorials Make Training Easier
Video is the most common tool for flipped classroom pre-work. The problem: students can watch a video without absorbing it. They skip ahead, let it play in the background, or watch it once and forget. iorad tutorials are different because they require students to perform each step in sequence before the tutorial advances. Completion is built into the format.
For teachers, that means arriving at class with higher confidence that students actually did the pre-work rather than just opened the link. For students, it means building genuine familiarity with the tool or process before they're expected to use it in a class setting.
Teachers who use iorad for flipped instruction typically assign one tutorial per concept or tool, organized so students can revisit any step they missed without rewatching the entire video from the start.
Challenge: Nate is a history teacher, author, & blogger, and he absolutely loves iorad. So much so, that he is mentioning iorad in an educational tech book being published in early 2019. You might be familiar with one of the authors, Matt Miller (he’s the author of the Ditch That Textbook series).
Nate’s challenge is two-sided. Nate wanted to flip his high school history classroom and be sure that students were getting the same instruction they were if he was teaching them in person. Additionally, there are always days where a teacher just can’t be a school. This becomes a wasted day many times because leaving a substitute some information to teach doesn’t work or the teacher ends up leaving busy work for the students. Nate being the creative innovative teacher he is… is using iorad to reduce those challenges.
Process: “Flipping the classroom would have been definitely more difficult without iorad.” He would have had to write out instructions to guide the students through the lessons explaining when to click on each hyperdoc throughout the hyperslides (Google Presentations) lesson. Rather than just being able to click through & write short instructions with iorad.
Results: Nate likes that he can put a really quick tutorial together. Iorad fills the gap and saves him from many conversations he hasn’t had to have with students. “What makes iorad different is they have to go do what you say, and the interactive nature.” He feels its worth the time to make the tutorial. “Flipping the classroom would have been definitely more difficult without this. It’s not just a safety net, it’s the oil in the machine.”