You Can Now Share and Adopt Worksystems

Creating your Worksystems from ground up can be time consuming and challenging - especially if you are not familiar with breaking down work into small steps. Don't worry - help is on the way!

To make it easier for you, we have launched the Worksystem library. You can now share any Worksystem you have created with other users or simply adopt Worksystems from other Guides.

How it works

To adopt a Worksystem, go to "Worksystems" and click the link.

After selecting a Worksystem you like, you can use it as is or edit the Worksystem to fit your needs. Easy!

To share Worksystems, you go to your Worksystem list, select one, and hit "publish" to make it available to other Guides.

When you publish your Worksystem for others to enjoy, you can describe it and add some tags that will make it easier for others to find. 

That's it! Now, others can see the Worksystem you've created and adopt it to use with their Learners. If they make changes to it, those changes will not apply to your Worksystem - only to the one they have adopted.

Today, there are hundreds of Worksystems waiting to be adopted by you in the library. We're working on tools that will make it easier to find the Worksystem you'd like to use. This includes a search function and organization by tags (categories). if you have suggestions on how we can best improve the Worksystem library please let us know!

Thank you for using Lola!

You can now use Lola in "single player mode" (only one device needed)!

When we started Lola, we thought Lola should be used by teachers inside the classroom.

The idea was that teachers would create and run task lists for students. The students would complete the task lists. Lola, therefore, would be primarily be "driven" by the teacher (Guide) and the "receiver" would be the student (Learner).

This is still how Lola is used today. However, as we talked to students he heard that many of them wanted to use Lola on their own. Parents came to us and said their thought their kids would also want to create their own task lists (Worksystems) and run these systems on their own.

In other words, they wanted "single player mode"! In single player mode, a user is acting both as Guide and Learner. This "mode" is quite simple. All you do is to create your Worksystems, just as any Guide would do, and then run your systems from the top right menu.

When you run your Worksystem, it just shows up directly on your screen. To cancel, you just hit the cancel option. 

We're always looking for your feedback. Reach out to us if you have ideas on how we can make Lola better!