School, teaching and artificial intelligence
Aula IA
Classroom environment for training school staff on artificial intelligence. Fourteen demonstrations running in the learner's own browser, twenty guided exercises, a notebook that stays on the device. Companion to the book of the same name (ISBN).
- Author's contribution
- Course design, content writing and development, author of the companion handbook.
- Status
- In use
- Data
- Notebook and progress stay on the device, with no account. The assistant works with the user's own key, which stays in their browser, and requests go from the device to the model provider.

Publication
Aula IA. L'intelligenza artificiale a scuola per docenti e personale ATA. Manuale pratico con web app
GreenCat Edizioni, ISBN 979-8-170042-78-4, 174 pages
Book page ↗The project
Progressive Web App used in the classroom instead of slides during the AI training courses for school staff funded by the Italian National Recovery Plan. The link below opens the open-access demo version, with the first session of the course (Understand and See tabs), the interactive demonstrations and the reference sections on regulation, data and glossary; the full course, with guided exercises and assessments, is activated with the school, and each cohort keeps its own instance after the course ends.
The underlying principle is that you learn by doing, not by watching. Fourteen interactive demonstrations run entirely in the participant's browser, sending nothing outside: a tokeniser showing how text is split, a sampling demo making visible why the same question yields different answers, a comparison between search and generation, and an anonymiser that strips personal data before a request is written. Around them are twenty guided exercises with a brief and feedback, quizzes and flashcards, a full-text search engine across the course, a legal section with primary sources and the date each was checked, and a Notebook holding whatever each person produces, exportable to Markdown and PDF.
No accounts, no registration, no data leaving the device. The built-in assistant works only if the user supplies their own key, which stays in their browser. The architecture is instance-based, so each school can have its own version with its own calendar without duplicating content; this is the demo instance, with no reference to any specific institute.
It is the companion to the book Aula IA, published in 2026 with an ISBN, which holds the stable part of the course while the app carries what changes: which tool, which setting, where a regulation currently stands.
Features
- 14 interactive demonstrations running in the browser
- 20 guided exercises with brief and feedback
- Quizzes and flashcards for revision
- Full-text search across the whole course
- Legal section with primary sources and verification dates
- Local notebook exportable to Markdown and PDF
- Assistant using the user's own key
- No account, no data leaving the device
- Instance-based architecture for each school
- Offline via Service Worker
Characteristics
- AI
- Offline
- Quiz
- Export
Tech stack
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Vite
- Tailwind CSS
- IndexedDB
- PWA
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