Garden Story Writing Studio

GPT‑OSS 120B gives stronger, more nuanced feedback. GPT‑OSS 20B responds faster and costs less — useful for large classes or slower connections.

Turn a group off to hide it from the Grade Level picker on the setup page (e.g. for a Primary-only or Secondary-only school).

A global switch on top of each student account's individual "Own Topic" permission (set per-account under Student Accounts below) — both must be on for a student to see the option.

Off by default — Grades 7–12 use a text-based writing prompt instead of picture panels. Older students generally get more value from a rich thematic prompt with discussion points than from a four-picture sequence, which can read as juvenile at this age and constrains their independent idea development. Turn this on only if your Secondary students still benefit from visual scaffolding.

One line per domain, formatted as Domain Name: description. Domain names don't need to match the default five — the AI feedback and the rubric table students see will follow whatever you save here. If a Grade/Type combination has no custom criteria saved, the built-in default is used automatically.

Leave a field blank to use the built-in default for that grade. Leave Characters blank (or 0) to check word count only. Students who haven't reached the minimum see a friendly message telling them how much more to write — no AI call is made until they do.

Each story has a title, four picture stops (label, caption, and a photo — uploaded or a pasted image URL), and separate writing hints, key words, and discussion points for Native Speakers and ELLs. Adding a new story does not remove existing ones — students choose which story to write from when more than one is available. The built-in default story can't be edited or deleted here, but you can add as many alternatives as you like.

Always uses Groq GPT‑OSS 120B, regardless of the model chosen above for feedback. The AI writes the title, four story stops, separate NES/ELL discussion points, and NES/ELL hints & key words for this grade, plus an image search keyword per stop — the app fetches a matching online photo automatically (falling back to an icon if none loads). Review the preview, then Save — this ADDS a new story to the grade's list rather than replacing anything.

Create timed username/password logins for students. Fixed expiry ends access at an exact date and time regardless of use; variable expiry starts counting down from the student's FIRST successful login.