1. Getting Started with Shikshak (शिक्षक)

Welcome to Shikshak (शिक्षक) — the AI-powered teaching and academic assistant built for all educators across Nepal, spanning from Early Childhood Education (Nursery/Montessori) to School (Grades 1–12), College, and University (Bachelors level).

What is Shikshak?

Shikshak is designed to reduce the hours teachers spend every week preparing lesson plans, exam papers, worksheets, annual schedules, and school administrative paperwork.

Unlike generic international AI tools (like ChatGPT or MagicSchool), Shikshak is deeply customized for Nepal:

• National Curriculum & University Aligned: Pre-loaded with official Curriculum Development Centre (CDC 2081 BS) curriculum codes, units, and learning outcomes for Nursery through Grade 12 (SEE/NEB), and aligned with university academic syllabi for Bachelors degree levels.
• Bilingual & Devanagari Native: Full native Devanagari script output (in standard Unicode fonts like Noto Sans Devanagari and Kalimati) and English.
• No Prompt Engineering Needed: You never have to write complex prompts or instructions. Everything is driven by clear, structured forms, dropdowns, and checkboxes.
• SEE & NEB Standards: Generates question papers adhering to official Specification Grids (विशिष्टीकरण तालिका), mark weightages, and cognitive skill tiers.
• Bikram Sambat (BS) Calendar: Built around Nepali academic sessions, term divisions, and public holidays.
• Offline & Low-Bandwidth Resilient: Built for Nepal's real-world connectivity conditions — if power cuts or mobile data disruptions occur mid-generation, your completed documents are safely stored in your library.

User Roles & Easy Sign-In on Shikshak

Shikshak supports flexible, secure sign-in options designed for educators across Nepal:

• Direct Email & Password Sign-Up: Register directly with your full name, email, and password. A confirmation email verifies your address. New accounts start Free with 0 credits; completing Teacher Identity Verification (/settings) unlocks 100 Reverse Plus Trial Credits (30 days of Plus access).
• Social Identity Row: Single-row social identity shortcuts (Google 1-click active, alongside Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple) offer a streamlined, compact sign-up experience.

30-Day Persistent Login & Interactive Onboarding

• 30-Day Persistent Login: Sessions stay active for 30 days with automatic background token refresh, ensuring you never get randomly logged out during busy teaching or exam preparation periods.
• Interactive First-Time Tutorial: When launching Shikshak for the first time, an interactive 4-step tutorial guides you through choosing your textbook, selecting an AI generator, customizing sections, and exporting to Word or PDF.
• 1-Click Skip & Re-Access: Teachers can click "Skip Tutorial" anytime without interruption, and review the full step-by-step visual guide whenever needed via the Tutorial (प्रयोग निर्देशिका) link in the website footer (/tutorial).

Shikshak supports two main paths for teachers:

1. Individual Teacher

• Register using Google (1-click) or Email & Password (with secure 8+ character password, real-time strength evaluation, and password show/hide eye toggle for mobile typing convenience).
• New accounts start Free with 0 credits and no trial. Complete a quick one-step Teacher Identity Verification (`/settings`) with your Nepali mobile number and National ID to unlock 100 Reverse Plus Trial Credits and 30 days of Plus access to explore all Free and Plus teaching tools.
• When the 30-day trial concludes, your account seamlessly continues on the Free plan (20 credits/month forever) or you can subscribe to Plus (रु ९९/महिना) by scanning our Fonepay QR (you must verify your identity first). Teams Plus is available for schools at Rs 94/seat/mo (or Rs 75 annual) + school governance fee. Pro and Teams Pro are shown as "Coming Soon" while their tools are in active development, and are not purchasable yet.
• Credits are only deducted when a document is successfully generated.

2. School Teacher (Institutional Seat)

• Your school administration purchases a school licence and invites you via an invitation link or email.
• You consume a monthly generation allowance assigned by your school without paying out of pocket.
• If you exceed your monthly quota, you can also top up your personal credit pack.

3. School Admin (Principal / Headmaster)

• Register at /signup (or directly via /pricing/teams):
• Step 1 (Account): Enter Principal/Admin full name, official email, and password (min. 8 characters).
• Step 2 (School Affiliation): Search and select your school from Nepal's 35,000+ national school registry (or type custom institution name, district, and municipality).
• Step 3 (Usage & Plan): Under usage layer, select "For Whole School" (forWholeSchool) or select the "Teams Plus School License" card. This automatically designates your account with the `SCHOOL_ADMIN` role.
• Step 4 (Preferences): Select the operational grade clusters and primary medium of instruction (Nepali or English).
• Direct Portal Launch: Upon confirming your email, you are routed directly to the School Admin Portal (`/school`), where you can manage faculty seats (/school/teachers), allocate seat credit allowances, and configure school letterheads and crests (/school/profile).

How to Make Your First Teaching Plan (In 4 Easy Steps)

Your Document Library ("My Plans")

Every document you generate is automatically saved to your My Plans library (/my), and to Library in the sidebar (/dashboard/library) once you're signed in.

• Each item shows a real title pulled from the document itself (the unit, exam name, or topic you generated it for), plus subject, grade, and date — so a list of 50 presentations or 100 lesson plans stays easy to tell apart.
• Search and filter by subject, grade, tool type, or date.
• Edit: documents you can revise (Lesson Plans, Question Papers, Worksheets, Report Remarks, Chapter Plans) show an Edit option that opens the same document for correction. Your original AI output is kept; only your edited copy is shown afterward.
• Delete forever: removes the document permanently, from your account and every device. This cannot be undone, and credits already used are not refunded — use it to clear out documents you no longer need.
• Download again at any time without consuming extra credits.
• Print directly with formatted margins suitable for school submission.

Profile Page, School Profile, Multiple School Affiliations & Logo Customization

Nepali teachers frequently teach at more than one institution (e.g., morning shift at one campus and day shift at a school, or private tutoring alongside a model school). Shikshak makes managing your identity and school affiliations seamless:

• Profile Picture: Upload a JPEG or PNG photo (up to 2 MB). The picture is stored privately and securely — never shared publicly.
• Display Name: Update your full name as it will appear on all generated documents.
• Password & Recovery: Change your sign-in password directly from Profile or initiate a password reset via the "Forgot password? / पासवर्ड बिर्सनुभयो?" recovery flow (/forgot-password).
• Onboarding Flow: When creating a new account, you can quickly configure your school affiliation and teaching grades or click "Skip for now / अहिलेलाई छोड्नुहोस्" to immediately access your dashboard.

• Appearance: Switch language (English/Nepali) and light/dark theme.
• School Details: Configure one or more schools with their names and official crests/logos. Click "Add Another School" for multiple affiliations and mark one as your Primary School.
• Teaching Profile & "My Teaching Books": Select the grades and subjects you teach, and select your primary textbooks. These saved textbooks automatically appear grouped under ⭐ My Teaching Books (मेरा पाठ्यपुस्तकहरू) at the top of textbook dropdowns across all generator tools (Lesson Plan, Question Paper, 1-Click Chapter Kit), ensuring instant 1-click access without searching through the full national catalog.
• Desktop Notifications: Toggle system desktop notifications on or off to receive immediate audible and banner notifications when extensive slide decks or terminal exam packs finish generating in background tabs.
• Danger Zone & Self-Serve Account Deletion: You have full ownership of your data. Under the "Danger Zone / खाता मेटाउने क्षेत्र" card, you can permanently delete your Shikshak account at any time without contacting support. To avoid accidental deletion, the confirmation dialog requires typing DELETE (or मेटाउनुहोस् in Nepali). Deletion permanently and irreversibly purges your profile, uploaded avatar, saved documents, generation history, and auth credentials across all systems.

My Assistant — the AI Panel Beside Your Work

Once you are signed in, a My Assistant button sits at the bottom right of every page except the home page. Tap it and the assistant opens as a side panel: on a computer the page squeezes narrower to make room for it, so nothing is covered and you can keep your form, your list, and your chat open at the same time. On a phone it rises from the bottom as a sheet, because there is no room for two columns on a small screen.

It is available everywhere you work, not just your dashboard — while you are building a lesson plan, a question paper, a worksheet or any other tool, the assistant is right there, and it knows which page you are on.

Context-Aware Classroom Assistance: The assistant automatically detects your active classroom context — including the selected Grade, Subject, and Chapter/Unit on the page. If you ask for a pedagogical hook, a 5-minute introductory story, or a riddle (e.g. *"यो पाठ सुरु गर्न ५ मिनेटको रोचक कथा वा पहेली दिनुहोस्"*), it immediately tailors the story to your active classroom grade and subject, providing a complete, untruncated narrative along with 2–3 guided reflection questions to engage your students.

It knows where you are. The panel shows the page you are currently viewing and uses it to suggest questions that make sense there. In the question-paper tool it will offer help with the specification grid; in settings it will offer help with language, school details and password. You can ignore the suggestions and ask anything at all.

Your conversation is saved to your account. Unlike the general help button on the home page, everything you discuss in this panel is stored against your sign-in. Close the panel, switch devices, or come back tomorrow, and the conversation is still there.

What each question costs. Each question that returns an answer uses 1 credit from your balance, the same as a small generation. A question is only charged after a real answer comes back — if the request fails or times out, you are not charged. A school seat that includes an allowance draws from that allowance first, and only then from your own credits.

If you are sending many questions. The panel allows up to 40 questions per hour. If you reach that, wait a little and ask again.

Clearing a conversation. The bin icon in the panel's header deletes the whole conversation permanently. This only removes the chat itself — it does not delete any document you generated, and it does not refund credits already used.

One assistant, not two. The free Shikshak AI help button now lives on the home page only. Everywhere else, signed in, you get the personalized panel — so there is never a moment where you are talking to the free anonymous assistant while your own assistant sits right beside it. If you are not signed in, you will only get the free help button, and only on the home page.

Student privacy still applies. Shikshak does not store student names. Use roll numbers (Roll 1, Roll 12) or initials (R.S., K.B.) in anything you ask the assistant, especially for report card remarks and rubrics.

Making the Sidebar Smaller

The left sidebar on your dashboard, textbook library and settings can be collapsed to a narrow strip of icons, which gives your documents and forms noticeably more room on a laptop or a small monitor.

• Tap the collapse button at the top of the left sidebar to shrink it to icons only.
• Tap the expand button at the top of the collapsed rail anytime to bring the labels back.
• Shikshak remembers your choice, so it stays the way you left it. On a phone the sidebar is a menu button instead, and this setting does not apply.

Smartphone & Mobile Experience (Made for Nepali Teachers)

Most educators in Nepal access the internet primarily on smartphones and tablets. Shikshak has been crafted mobile-first:

• Zero App Store Installation Needed: Works instantly on any Android (Chrome) or iPhone (Safari) browser.
• Install to Home Screen (PWA): Open Shikshak in your mobile browser, tap "Add to Home screen" (or the install prompt), and it behaves just like a native mobile app with instant launch and offline cache.
• Responsive Top Navigation & Account Menu: On smartphones (360px–430px) and tablet screens (768px–1024px), top links (Pricing, Textbooks, Blog, and School Admin Portal) automatically collapse into your top-right Account Menu (खाता मेनू), preventing horizontal overflow and clipping while ensuring 100% of links remain 1-tap accessible.
• Thumb-Friendly Touch Controls: Large 48px tappable selection cards, non-zooming input fields, and smooth bottom-sheet drawers.
• Low Mobile Data Usage: Minimal payload sizes optimized for 3G/4G connectivity across all 77 districts of Nepal.
• 24/7 Mobile AI Assistant: Tap the floating Shikshak AI button at the bottom right corner of your phone anytime for instant help.

Desktop Shortcut & Progressive Web App (PWA) Launching

You can install Shikshak directly onto your laptop or desktop computer (Linux, Windows, macOS, or Chromebook) for fast 1-click access:

• In Google Chrome, Chromium, Brave, or Edge, click the Install icon in the browser address bar (or menu ... > Save and share > Install Shikshak / Create Shortcut...).
• Check "Open as window" so Shikshak opens in its own clean window without browser tabs or URL bars.

• When a shortcut is placed on your Linux Desktop, GNOME displays a generic gear/text icon and flags it as untrusted for security reasons.
• How to activate it (Graphical): Right-click the .desktop file on your desktop and select "Allow Launching". The icon will immediately change to the official Shikshak emblem and become double-clickable.
• How to activate it (Terminal / ICT Lab Admin): For school computer lab administrators or terminal users, run:

`bash

chmod +x ~/Desktop/*shikshak*.desktop

gio set ~/Desktop/*shikshak*.desktop metadata::trusted true

`

This automatically trusts and activates the launcher without needing to manually right-click.

• If you delete the icon from your Desktop, the app is not uninstalled.
• Simply open Chrome and go to chrome://apps, right-click Shikshak, and choose "Create shortcuts..." > check "Desktop" > Create.
• You can also launch Shikshak anytime by pressing your keyboard's Super key (Windows key) and typing "Shikshak" or "शिक्षक".

• Logged-in Teachers: Launching the desktop shortcut opens directly to your Teacher Dashboard (`/dashboard`), where you can see your credits, recent plans, bulk chapter tools, and all teaching generators.
• School Administrators: Launches directly into your School Hub (`/school`).
• Direct Generator Links: If you click a shared Viber/WhatsApp link or saved bookmark for a specific textbook (?curriculum=...) or unit, it routes directly to the Lesson Plan or requested generator without interruption.

5. Unified Navigation Bar, Clean Library & Study Notes Deep-Linking

• The navigation bar is unified across the public homepage and the Teacher Dashboard.
• Bilingual Identity: Displays the official brand emblem and bilingual title (शिक्षक AI • Shikshak) everywhere.
• Instant AI Tools Access: The AI Tools (एआई सामग्री निर्माण) dropdown menu is mounted directly in the header, letting you launch or switch between any of the 10 teaching generators from any dashboard screen with a single click.
• Main Menu Links: Quick access to Pricing (`/pricing`), Textbooks (`/textbooks`), and Blog (`/blog`) is available on all screens alongside your live Credit Balance and Account Menu.

• Zero Misleading Tier Tags: Confusing "Plus" / "Free" tags on generated documents have been eliminated. Once a document is in your library, it belongs to you.
• Only Completed Documents: Generational attempts that do not finish (e.g. network disconnection, aborts, or server timeouts) are automatically refunded and excluded from your library view. You never have to manually delete failed attempts.

• Notes saved from the Study Notes Studio display a prominent "Open in Study Notes / अध्ययन नोटमा खोल्नुहोस्" action button.
• Clicking this button redirects you straight into the interactive Study Notes workspace (/dashboard/study-notes?courseId=...) with the original course and chapter open for review, in-place editing, and Word booklet export.