Resources
Everything you need
Everything you need
to get started.
Tutorials, downloadable lesson decks, and ready-made activity packs. Use them as they are, or as a starting point for your own.
Tutorials
How-to guides
Short, focused walkthroughs covering every part of OctoDecks, from building your first deck to running a live adaptive lesson. Step-by-step guides with screenshots, with videos to follow.
Step-by-step guide
Getting started
Building your first deck
A complete walkthrough of the OctoDecks editor: adding slides and live activities, setting support and challenge versions, and getting ready for a live lesson.
Step-by-step guide
Live sessions
Running a live lesson
How to go live, share your room code, move through slides, run quizzes and exit tickets, and read live results on the teacher board.
Step-by-step guide
Adaptive teaching
Core and extended content
How to add Support (key words and sentence starters) and Challenge versions to any slide, and how students choose them during a live lesson.
Step-by-step guide
Interactive Sessions
Standalone sessions with CSV
How to open any Interactive Session, upload a CSV with your own questions, share the code and run it without a full deck. Includes a CSV format reference.
Step-by-step guide
Worksheets
Generating a student worksheet
Turn your deck into a printable worksheet, with a crossword built from your key words, core and challenge versions, and PDF or PowerPoint export.
Step-by-step guide
Card Match
Running Card Match in class
Write a card CSV with pictures and facts, then run all four game modes: Paired Deck, Face-Up Match, Face-Down Pairs and Sort Match.
Deck templates
Downloadable lesson decks
Pre-built OctoDecks lesson files ready to import. Open in the Deck Library, adapt the content for your class, and teach.
Coming soon
Design & Technology · KS3
Materials & Properties: Introduction
A full adaptive lesson deck covering material types, working properties and selection. Core and extended content built in, with MCQ, Match Up and Exit Ticket.
Download .octodeck
Coming soon
Computing · KS3
Programming Concepts — Variables & Loops
An adaptive computing lesson covering variables, data types, loops and conditionals. Includes Worked Example, Cloze, and Confidence Check slides.
Download .octodeck
Coming soon
Any subject · Starter template
Lesson Starter: Blank Adaptive Template
A blank lesson structure with pre-set slide placeholders: Title, Recap, Core Activity, Extended Activity, Exit Ticket. Fill in your content and go.
Download .octodeck
Interactive Session data
Ready-made CSV packs
Preview any pack to see exactly what’s in it, then download and import it into an Interactive Session. Use them as they are, or adapt them for your own subject.
How to import a CSV into an Interactive Session
1
Preview and download
Click a pack below to see every question, then download the CSV to your device.
2
Open the session
In OctoDecks, open Interactive Sessions and choose the matching activity (Multiple Choice, Match-Up or Card Sort).
3
Upload the file
In the setup window, upload the CSV and check the questions look right. Or save it to My Library to reuse.
4
Share and run
Click Start activity and share the room code. Full guide →
Card Sort
Sort: Material Families
More packs coming soon
Community
Made something great?
If you have built a deck or CSV pack you would like to share with other OctoDecks teachers, get in touch. We would love to feature it here.
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