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Practical answers for teachers and workshop leaders: how to see who's stuck, keep a class together and build lessons students can play with. Each guide shows the answer working in the live demo, with a class of 45.
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How to run a workshop for 100 people
Bring one helper for every eight to ten people, give everyone a help signal that stays up, and keep each step short enough to check.
7 min read · 30 Oct 2026
Hands-on & coding workshopsHow to teach Git to beginners in a workshop
Teach the few commands that matter on day one, draw where each one moves a file, and end every step with output students can check.
7 min read · 29 Oct 2026
Run a live classHow to pace a lesson when students work at different speeds
Plan a core task everyone finishes, extra work for whoever finishes first, and a checkpoint where the class meets before the next idea.
7 min read · 28 Oct 2026
Run a live class
Pacing, keeping the room together, and ending well.
How to run a workshop for 100 people
Bring one helper for every eight to ten people, give everyone a help signal that stays up, and keep each step short enough to check.
7 min read · 30 Oct 2026
How to pace a lesson when students work at different speeds
Plan a core task everyone finishes, extra work for whoever finishes first, and a checkpoint where the class meets before the next idea.
7 min read · 28 Oct 2026
How to get everyone set up in the first five minutes
Send one setup page that ends in a check, make the first task that same check, and help the people who can't start before anyone else.
8 min read · 27 Oct 2026
How to run a hands-on training on Zoom or Teams
Give people a done and a help signal that stays until you read it, take written help requests in order, and stop the class only on purpose.
7 min read · 22 Oct 2026
How to get useful feedback at the end of a workshop
Ask before people leave, ask a few specific questions about usefulness, read the answers for patterns, and tell the next group what changed.
5 min read · 21 Oct 2026
How to keep students focused in a laptop class
In a hands-on class the laptop is the work: give it a task every few minutes, keep talks short, and watch who finishes, not screens.
4 min read · 21 Oct 2026
How to measure whether a training session worked
Decide what people should be able to do, measure it during the session and with a task at the end, and check weeks later if they use it.
5 min read · 21 Oct 2026
How to keep a whole class on the same step
Decide step by step whether the class moves together or at its own pace, check who is behind before you move on, and regroup in one move.
2 min read · 19 Oct 2026
See who's stuck
Spot the students who need help before they give up.
How to get students to ask for help
Make asking one private action that costs nothing, show it is normal, answer so they ask again, and check in on the ones who still don't.
7 min read · 28 Oct 2026
How to check for understanding without stopping the class
Ask one question everyone answers at once, write it so wrong answers show the mistake, and decide in a minute what to teach next.
7 min read · 20 Oct 2026
How to run a help queue in a classroom
Keep one list of who needs help, take it in order, keep each visit short, and explain a repeated problem to the whole room at once.
6 min read · 20 Oct 2026
How to tell which students are stuck in a hands-on class
Stuck students rarely raise a hand. Give every step a done signal, look for who hasn't sent it, and help the right student first.
3 min read · 19 Oct 2026
Hands-on & coding workshops
Labs, live coding and step-by-step exercises.
How to teach Git to beginners in a workshop
Teach the few commands that matter on day one, draw where each one moves a file, and end every step with output students can check.
7 min read · 29 Oct 2026
How to run a hands-on AI workshop for beginners
Sort out accounts before the day, make the first step prove the tool answers, and give beginners tasks whose answers they can check.
8 min read · 23 Oct 2026
How to teach adults in a hands-on workshop
Start with something useful the same day, match the help to what each person knows, keep mistakes private, and never call anything "just".
5 min read · 21 Oct 2026
How to run a hands-on coding workshop
Plan short steps that each end in working code, write the code live and slowly, and keep a queue for students whose code won't run.
4 min read · 19 Oct 2026
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Using Workshopy
How the product works, step by step.
How to write a workshop in Markdown
The complete authoring format: how # headings become steps, what Markdown is supported, and how to import or export a single .md file.
3 min read · 12 Sept 2026
How to add a quiz to your workshop
Write graded quizzes in plain Markdown with #[quiz], ## questions and - [x] answers — and see how correct answers stay hidden.
2 min read · 12 Sept 2026
How to run your first live session
From a Markdown file to a running session: starting it, how participants join with a 6-character code, and pacing the room.
3 min read · 12 Sept 2026
How to track participant progress in real time
How the per-step status model works — in progress, done and stuck — and how the dashboard turns it into a live view of who needs help.
2 min read · 12 Sept 2026
Edit your templates from ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps
Connect ChatGPT, Claude or Codex to Workshopy over MCP: what an app can do with your templates, what it can't, and what to ask it.
6 min read · 6 Oct 2026
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