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ekklesiaandClaude Opus 5.5 1cb9fd35d2 feat: Wonder Ink looks like the classroom, and its preview shows the page
The tab strip is drawn from the classroom's own palette, the one the
panel, Parent Call and Presentations read: larger titles, an accent
under the active tab, worksheets marked with a document icon. Its one
corner widget is the lesson's size and Print — not a new-tab button. With
one tab the strip stays hidden, as before; a change of size shows a
moment's badge instead, and the right-click menu and keys still work.
The window is named "Lesson — Wonder Ink" and carries its own icon.

The print preview showed "Page 1 could not be shown" in the real
session while printing correctly: poppler 25.03 does not write to stdout
when asked for "-" — it writes a file called "-.png" into the current
directory, which for Wonder Ink is the teacher's home. Pages are now
rendered into a directory of their own, and the lab print check fails
any preview that does not draw its page.

The teacher's manual has lesson size and printing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-23 19:13:04 -05:00

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Wonder Ink 50 WONDERINK_ENABLED If Wonder Ink is available in your classroom

Wonder Ink opens the lesson. It is its own application, not the browser, and it opens straight into the lesson site.

Using it

  1. Click Wonder Ink on the bar.
  2. Sign in with your Wonder Ink account.

A lesson often opens several tabs — the lesson, its video, an activity. They appear in a row across the top. Click a tab to move between them, and the × on a tab to close it.

There is no address bar, on purpose. Wonder Ink can take you anywhere the lesson needs to go.

Making the lesson bigger or smaller

Press Ctrl and + to make the lesson bigger, Ctrl and − to make it smaller, and Ctrl and 0 to go back to normal. You can also right-click the lesson and choose Make the lesson bigger. When several tabs are open, the − 100% + buttons at the top right do the same.

The size applies to every tab and is remembered next time.

Printing

Press Ctrl and P, click Print at the top right, or right-click and choose Print…. You will see the pages exactly as they will print.

  • Choose Only some pages to print, for example, 2 or 1-3.
  • Set Copies for the number of children.
  • Choose Black and white to save colour ink.

Click Print. Wonder Ink says when the printer has it and goes back to the lesson. Cancel prints nothing.

Worksheets and colouring pages

Click the worksheet link in the lesson. It opens in a new tab, ready to read or print. A worksheet's own − and + at the top of the page make it bigger or smaller.

Worksheets you download are kept separately from everything else on the computer, so they never get mixed up with anything.

When you have finished

Close Wonder Ink at the end of your session. Closing it signs you out, so the next teacher in this room starts with their own account and not yours.