New: Choose your own colors with the color picker
Starting now, your lines, shapes, and texts can be written in all the colors of the rainbow. The color palette has been expanded to include four [...]
New: Lesson autosave
You no longer have to worry about losing changes when you create a lesson in Gynzy. The new board now offers the option to save your [...]
New: menu bar
We have updated our menu with different options on the left side of the page. We'd love to show you around! While we are still working [...]
Page templates
Making your own lessons just got easier with a little help from our lesson templates. You can choose between different templates with practical formatting. Quickly bring [...]
Set image as background
One of the teacher requests we got at Gynzy was to be able to set an image as background. Now you can have fun backgrounds that [...]
The new curtain
The red stage curtain is now also available on the new Gynzy board with a subtle addition, a "cord." Pull the cord to slowly reveal what [...]
Document import
Now you can import documents such as PDF, PowerPoint, and Word on the new Gynzy board and save them in your own lessons. This way you [...]
Show guides on the board
You can now easily align elements in your lessons with the help of just one shortcut key! You can activate (or deactivate) the guides with [...]
Shortcut Keys
The new Gynzy board contains many new features that teachers and authors can use to develop lessons even more smoothly, including shortcuts. Certain actions can be [...]
Text-to-speech
Add voice dictation to your own lessons with the “Text-to-speech” widget. With this handy widget you can type in words or sentences and play it with [...]
Fraction circles and fraction bars as a widget
The fraction circle and fraction bar are now available as widget on the new board. A lot of people have requested this feature, and our [...]
More text functions on the new board
It is even easier to edit text on the new board. We have done several improvements and added new functions. Text menu The ‘text menu’ is [...]
Draw lines and shapes directly on the board
When developing the new board, we made it easier to draw lines and figures on the board. In the new board, you can “draw” shapes and [...]
Copy, paste, undo, and redo
In the new board, you are able to copy images and other elements to another page. That way you don't have to completely recreate pages every [...]
Select, group, and move
It is now possible to group elements on the new board, so they behave as one single element. In addition, we have added the possibility [...]
Discover the new board!
The first version of our long awaited Flash-free board is here! It is new and improved, but still under development. We will be adding new options [...]
Gynzy needs you!
We need you to fulfill one of our core values: Creating magic together. On March 7th, 2019 we are looking for Gynzy enthusiasts who want to help [...]
Gynzy Guide: Widgets
A lot of our widgets can be used to help keep your students under control and paying attention. You can use them in conjunction with Gynzy [...]
Gynzy Guide: Timetable (Visual Schedule Cards)
This guide will show you how to use our "Timetable" tool to keep your school day organized and efficient! You’ll be able to plan time for [...]
Gynzy Guide: Classroom Floorplanner
The tool we are covering this time is our Classroom Floorplanner, which will help get you organized before school starts! With this resource you can easily [...]
Gynzy Guide: Word Flash Cards (with your own word lists)
The tool I am going to cover in this guide is "Word Flash Cards (with your own word lists)". This tool is great for students who [...]
Gynzy Guide: Adding student lists
In this guide I’m going to teach you how to create and use student lists in our “Name order and group creator” tool. This tool will [...]
4 Core Areas of Music Education
National Music Week is coming soon and music teachers are some of my favorite people. I taught K-8 music so I know the challenges they face. [...]
Five Timeless Classroom Management Techniques
When most new teachers dream of stepping into a classroom, they think of the lessons that will be taught, the knowledge that will be imparted, and [...]
Earth Day Proves that Anyone Can Learn With the Right Environment
In 1970, Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin was moved dramatically by experiencing the devastation of an oil spill in Santa Barbara, CA. He wanted to do something [...]
Improve your Handwriting Skills on your IWB
He had a brilliant mind, but this favorite student of mine struggled with one main issue in fourth grade: handwriting. It was hardly legible and even [...]
Don’t Hold Back Your Interactive Whiteboard
Almost every teacher I know has a funny story about how she's misused her interactive whiteboard. Many of us have written on them with markers or [...]
Christmas Lesson Plan: Christmas Around The World
In this lesson plan students will analyze the celebration of Christmas in diverse cultures in a variety of media and formats. They will compare and contrast [...]
Dealing with Social Media in the Classroom
When cell phones first appeared in the classroom, students could do little more than look at them. It took more than guts to make an actual [...]
Activities that Will Instill a Love of Reading
There was a time when learning consisted of three basic subjects: Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic. The “3 R’s” as they were once known, taught a student [...]