Classroom tools for building local-first discussion plans, tuning them by grade band, and keeping teacher-facing notes humanized and easy to share.
Local educator scope: changes on this page affect only the local classroom context, and teacher defaults stay local-first unless you choose to save them.
Lesson Mode
Active local-first controls
Grade Band
Ready for tuning
Discussion Goal
Evidence, civics, or inquiry
Teacher Notes
Ready for post-session review
Classroom Use Guardrails
Educator settings here tune the current classroom session only.
Global platform defaults still require an admin account.
Moderators may make slight adjustments only when they document the reason and instructional need.
Generated analysis and discussion prompts do not necessarily reflect the views of The Great Debate Today, the educator, the school, or any person discussed in the classroom session.
Lesson Setup
Small-Group Debate Studio
Turn the current topic into small-group rounds with grade-band tuning, coverage-based discussion topics, regional follow-ups, role assignments, and a concise teacher packet that stays on this device unless you export it.
Discussion Topic Workshop
This workshop lets educators inherit the shared upcoming topic baseline or switch this device to a local-first custom topic for a specific class session.
This surface is local-device only. A custom topic entered here stays on this device and does not change the Admin baseline.
Teacher Backup + Restore
Educator backup captures device-wide generated TGD data for this signed-in classroom surface, then writes it into The Great Debate / Back up Files / YYYY / Month / M-D-YY AM|PM inside the local folder you choose, uses a browser-download fallback, or saves an encrypted copy to the signed-in Firebase account. If that folder already syncs with Dropbox, iCloud, or another service on this device, TGD writes there, but it does not upload to those services directly. Automatic cadence runs only while this page stays open.