Getting Started with Dolly: From Curriculum Upload to Lesson Planning in Minutes
Learning how to use a new teaching platform should not add to your workload.
For teachers already balancing lesson planning, marking, feedback, student progress, assessments, and reporting, a complicated setup process can make a new system feel like another task to manage.
That is why Dolly is designed to help teachers get started quickly.
These short Dolly tutorials show how to set up a class, upload your curriculum, create lesson plans, build assessments, and connect everyday teaching tasks in one place.
Whether you are preparing for a new term or looking for a simpler way to manage your teaching workflow, you can start using Dolly in just a few minutes.
How to Set Up a Class in Dolly
The first step is creating your class.
Setting up a class in Dolly takes less than a minute and creates the foundation for lesson planning, assignments, student progress tracking, feedback, and reporting.
Once your class is ready, you can begin organising teaching resources and creating activities for your students.
Watch: Set Up a Class in Dolly in Under a Minute
What you can do after setting up a class
Once your class has been created, you can:
upload your curriculum;
generate lesson plans;
create assignments;
organise student work; and
track progress throughout the school year.
How to Upload Your Curriculum to Dolly
Teachers should not have to start every lesson plan from a blank page.
Dolly allows you to upload your existing curriculum and use it as the basis for lesson planning, teaching resources, and classroom activities.
This helps keep your lesson content aligned with your curriculum while reducing the time spent repeatedly entering the same information.
Watch: How to Upload Your Curriculum to Dolly
Why upload your curriculum?
Uploading your curriculum helps Dolly create more relevant and structured teaching content based on the topics, objectives, and learning outcomes you already use.
Teachers remain in control and can review or edit all generated content before using it in the classroom.
How to Create a Lesson Plan in Dolly
Lesson planning is one of the most important parts of teaching, but it can also be one of the most time-consuming.
With Dolly, teachers can create structured, curriculum-aligned lesson plans in a few simple steps.
Each lesson plan remains fully editable, allowing teachers to adapt the content to suit their students, teaching style, and classroom needs.
Watch: How to Create a Lesson Plan in Dolly
Create editable lesson plans more quickly
Dolly can help teachers move beyond the blank page by creating an initial lesson structure.
You can then review, refine, and personalise the plan before teaching it.
This reduces repetitive preparation while keeping teacher judgement at the centre of the planning process.
How to Create Assessments in Dolly
Dolly also helps teachers create assignments and assessment activities linked to their teaching content.
Instead of moving between separate tools, teachers can plan lessons and create related assessments within the same workflow.
How to Create a Quiz Assignment in Dolly
Quiz assignments can help teachers check student understanding, review key topics, and create engaging assessment opportunities.
With Dolly, you can create a quiz in just a few clicks and adapt the questions to match your lesson objectives.
Watch: How to Create a Quiz Assignment in Dolly
How to Create an Extended Response Assignment in Dolly
Extended response assignments give students an opportunity to explain their ideas, develop arguments, and demonstrate deeper understanding.
Dolly makes it easy to create structured written activities while keeping assignment preparation and organisation in one place.
Watch: How to Create an Extended Response Assignment in Dolly
See Dolly’s Complete Teaching Workflow
Each Dolly feature is designed to work as part of a connected teaching workflow.
Teachers can move from curriculum planning to lesson creation, assignments, feedback, progress tracking, and reporting without repeatedly switching between different systems.
This connected approach can help reduce duplicated work and make important teaching information easier to access.
To see how the full platform works, watch the complete Dolly demonstration.
Watch: Dolly Demo
How Dolly Helps Reduce Teacher Workload
Dolly is designed to simplify repetitive teaching administration.
By connecting curriculum management, lesson planning, assessments, feedback, student progress, and reporting, Dolly helps teachers spend less time managing disconnected tools and more time supporting students.
The aim is not to automate teacher judgement.
It is to give teachers a more efficient starting point and make everyday workflows easier to manage.
Teachers remain responsible for reviewing, editing, and deciding how content should be used.
Supporting Teachers, Not Replacing Them
At Dolly, we believe technology should support teachers rather than replace them.
Teaching requires professional judgement, subject knowledge, adaptability, care, and an understanding of individual students.
Dolly supports the administrative and repetitive parts of teaching while keeping teachers in control of planning, assessment, feedback, and classroom decisions.
Whether you are preparing lessons, creating assessments, organising student progress, or planning for a new term, Dolly is designed to make everyday tasks simpler.
Get Started Today
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