📖 How M2 works

1. Overview

M2 is your AI-powered classroom robot for feedback and instructional support. Here's what you can do with it:

• Teach — run live teaching activities and get real-time, on-demand coaching tips
• Reflect — review post-lesson feedback organized by lesson section and aligned to your school's rubric
• Guide students — get tailored learning activities aligned to your lesson generated in the moment
• Chat with M2 — use a private coaching conversation to process feedback and plan next steps

Where you can use M2:

• M2 robot — full experience: audio capture, student-facing tools, Instructional Guides with audio output
• Mobile (phone or tablet) — text-based guides, on-demand tips, and post-session feedback and Chat with M2
• Web — setup activities, view feedback, Chat with M2, group management

Who sees what:

• Teacher (group owner) — your teaching sessions, your feedback, your Chat with M2 history (all private by default), any reflections or Guides you assign to students
• Co-teacher (group manager) - all group content, after you explicitly invite them to the group
• Students (group participants) — only Reflections you explicitly assign to them
• Admins/coaches — only content you choose to share via a link

2. Understanding Groups in M2

A group is the organizing unit for all of your work in M2. Every teaching session, piece of feedback, and student reflection lives inside a group.

What lives inside a group:

• Individual activities (one per lesson or session)
• Post-session feedback for each activity
• Reflections assigned to students from that activity

Best practice:

• You'll get the best experience by creating a group for each class or defined group of students you work with.
• Use the General group to quickly explore M2, work with a temporary group, or if you need start a new teaching activity before you have time to create a new group.

3. Creating and Managing Groups

Creating a new group

1. Open M2 and select New group from the selector screen.
2. Name the group. Use something that matches how you organize your classes — for example, Period 3 Algebra or 2nd Period Biology.
3. Adjust the group settings according to your needs.

Adding participants

When you click "Assign" on a reflection, you'll get a link to share with students. When students sign in through this link, they will be added to your group.

Permissions and visibility

• Participants (students) can see: Reflections you assign to them.
• Participants cannot see: Your teaching sessions, your feedback, or your Chat with M2 history.

4. Starting a Teaching Activity in a Group

A teaching activity is a single teaching session — for example, your Wednesday morning fractions lesson. Each activity gets its own page inside your group, with its own feedback, transcript, and reflections.

How to start an activity

1. Open a group (class group or General group) from your M2 robot or M2 app.
2. Tap or click Start Teaching.
3. M2 will begin capturing your session audio.

5. Live Tips During Teaching Sessions

Tips have shifted from automatic to on-demand. M2 no longer pushes tips on a set interval. Instead, you tap the screen when you want support.

How it works

• Tap the M2 device screen at any point during your session to get an immediately actionable tip.
• You'll see a set of tip bubbles — choose the type of support you need:

Bubble	What it gives you
Classroom Management	A quick strategy for redirecting, pacing, or managing the room
Check for Understanding	A ready-to-use question you can pose to your class right now
Instructional Guide	Three activity options based on your lesson context (see Section 7)

• You can tap and select a specific bubble, or just tap to get a general tip.
• Any tip you request will appear in your activity's record — so you can review which tips you used after the session.

6. The Activity Dashboard

Each activity has its own dashboard inside your group. After your session, this is where everything lives.

Dashboard sections:

Section	What's there
Teacher Takeaways	Top-level highlights from your lesson — actionable things you can act on immediately
My Feedback	Chunk-by-chunk instructional feedback organized by lesson section (see Section 8)
Class Summary	A high-level summary of the session
Reflections	Student Reflections you've assigned, with status and completed responses

To navigate between activities in a group, use the dropdown at the top of the group page. Each activity is listed separately.

7. Instructional Guides

An Instructional Guide is a structured activity M2 generates based on the context of your lesson — for whole-group instruction, small-group work, or targeted practice.

How M2 suggests guides

When you tap Instructional Guide during a session, M2 automatically suggests three guides tailored to what's happening in your lesson. You don't need to type an objective first.

• If none of the three fit, tap "Just tell me" and describe what you need in your own words.

Hardware vs. mobile

Context	Guide experience
M2 device (hardware)	M2 reads the guide aloud to students through its speaker
Mobile (phone or tablet)	You receive the guide as text — you read it aloud to students yourself

8. Post-Lesson Feedback: "My Feedback"

After your session, tap My Feedback on the activity dashboard to access your full feedback report.

What's inside

Custom rubrics — If your school or team has set up custom rubrics, they'll appear at the top. Toggle between rubrics to see feedback aligned to each one.

Lesson sections — M2 organizes your feedback by the natural structure of your lesson, not by fixed time intervals:

• Opener / warm-up
• Direct instruction / lecture
• Guided practice
• Independent practice
• Closing

Each section includes:

• A heading so you can quickly orient yourself
• A score
• One or two targeted suggestions or encouragements
• The associated transcript segment for that section (readable or listenable)

Downloading and sharing

Click the three dots menu at the top of My Feedback to:

• Download transcript — exports the session transcript as a text file
• Copy link to My Feedback — generates a shareable link to the full feedback card, including scores, section feedback, and transcript. Recipients with the link can view (and likely re-share) the content.

9. Student Reflections

A reflection is a student-facing activity you assign from an activity page. Students respond to it independently by speaking out loud to M2 on their own device.

Where Reflections live

Reflections are assigned from the same activity page as your teaching session. Both your session content and student reflections are organized together under a single activity, but students can only see what you assign to them.

Assigning a Reflection

1. Open the activity dashboard.
2. Scroll to the Reflections section and tap Assign.
3. Select the participants from your group you want to assign it to.
4. Students receive the Reflection on their device.

10. Teacher Self-Reflection via Chat With M2

Chat with M2 is a private, coaching-style conversation you have with M2 after your session. Think of it as a structured reflection conversation — not just open-ended chat. Chat with M2 is available on web and mobile.

How it works

Chat with M2 has context from your session — including your feedback and any tips you requested during class. It guides you through a coaching arc:

1. Identify something specific to examine or improve
2. Explore what happened and what you could do differently
3. Make a concrete plan for implementation
4. Build motivation to follow through

You can also ask M2 direct questions: "What happened during guided practice?" or "What's a better way I could have handled the transition?"

Privacy

By default: Your Chat with M2 history is private — only you can see it. Even if you invite a new group manager to the group, they cannot see your Chat with M2 history.

11. Using M2 on Mobile Devices

You can run a full M2 teaching session from a phone or tablet — no hardware required.

Requirements: An active M2 license.

What you can do on mobile

• Start a teaching activity
• Tap for on-demand tips
• Receive text-based Instructional Guides (you read them aloud to students)
• Chat with M2 after the session

Note: On mobile, M2 captures what your phone microphone picks up. If you move away from the device, audio quality will drop. The M2 robot includes a wearable teacher microphone and room-coverage audio for significantly better capture.

13. In-ear Translation

In-ear translation enables M2 to deliver real-time, translated audio to students wearing remote microphones — supporting multilingual classrooms during instruction.

Current availability:

• Up to 9 students can use in-ear remotes simultaneously
• All remotes in a session must use the same target language — multi-language support is coming in a future update

In-ear translation is available only when using M2 hardware. It is not available in mobile sessions.