What the AI builder is good at
Where to find this: Activities › New Activity › Create with AI
Choosing Create with AI opens a short conversation where you describe what you want, and it produces a complete draft — scene, character, objectives, vocabulary, and evaluation settings all filled in. It's very good at getting you from a blank page to something concrete, which is where most people stall.
Lemon says: Think of it as a colleague sketching a first draft on a napkin. Useful, fast, and definitely needs your edits.
Describe the class, not just the topic
The quality of the draft tracks the quality of your description almost exactly. A topic alone gives you a generic activity. Adding your level, your course, and what you actually want practiced gives you something close to usable.
Thin prompt
A restaurant conversation in Spanish.
You'll get a competent, generic café scenario that could belong to any course anywhere.
Rich prompt
An activity for my second-semester Spanish class (Novice High). They've just finished the food unit and I want them practicing ordering, asking what's recommended, and asking for the bill. Set it in Mexico City. They struggle with formal address, so the server should use usted throughout. About six minutes.
Level, unit, objectives, region, a known weakness, and a duration. The draft comes back nearly ready.
Lemon says: Mention what your students struggle with. That's the detail that turns a generic draft into your activity.
Upload your own materials
You can attach files to guide the draft — a syllabus, a chapter, a vocabulary list, a reading. The AI uses them alongside your instructions, which is the most reliable way to get activities that match what your course is actually teaching.
- Upload files directly when creating with AI
- Or add them once to your class Materials tab, then pick them with Upload › Choose from class materials each time you create with AI
Lemon says: Upload the chapter you're on. The vocabulary that comes back will be the vocabulary your students have actually seen.
Always review the scenario and the character
AI drafts are consistently solid on structure and consistently generic on the two fields that matter most. Read the scene and the character critically before you assign the activity — this is where your five minutes of editing buys the most.
- Does the scene have a complication, or does it end after one exchange?
- Does the character have a name, a manner of speaking, and something they want?
- Is the cultural context specific to a place, or is it a country-level generality?
- Do the objectives match what your course is actually assessing?
Lemon says: The draft gets you 70% of the way. The last 30% is what makes it feel like your class instead of a demo.
Field-level AI assists
Inside the editor you don't have to regenerate a whole activity to get help. Individual fields have an assist control you can use to rework just that field — useful when the scenario is right but the character is flat, or the objectives need sharpening.
Things worth asking for
Make this character more specific — give her a name and a reason to be curious about the customer. Add a complication so this doesn't finish in ninety seconds. Rewrite these objectives so each one starts with something the learner does. Make this vocabulary list match Novice Mid rather than Intermediate.
Lemon says: Field-level edits are much faster than regenerating. Fix the one thing that's wrong and leave the rest alone.
Starting from the Library instead
The Activity Library holds activities shared by other educators. Copying one gives you a complete, human-authored activity as your starting point — and unlike a fresh AI draft, someone has usually run it with real students.
- Browse and preview before copying
- A copy is yours to edit — changes never affect the original
- Copies arrive ready to assign, so make your edits before you assign one
Lemon says: Library first, AI second, blank page third. That's the order that saves the most time.