The BrainBit Infotech Teaching app for your phone

Tap Download on your phone

Open this page in Chrome on the phone and tap Download for Android at the top. Chrome may warn that “this type of file can harm your device”. It says that about every app that is not from the Play Store. Tap Download anyway.

Wait for the download to finish — on mobile data it can take a minute or two.

Open the file

Tap Open in the message at the bottom of Chrome. If it has gone, open the Files (or My Files) app, go to Downloads and tap brainbit-teaching.apk.

Allow Chrome to install apps — just this once

Android says something like “For your security, your phone is not allowed to install unknown apps from this source.” Tap Settings, switch on Allow from this source, then press the back button. You land back on the install screen.

Install

Tap Install. Google Play Protect may show a box saying it does not recognise the app, because it has not come through the Play Store. Tap More details and then Install anyway. If it offers to scan the app, you can let it.

When it says App installed, tap Open. You will find the BrainBit Infotech Teaching icon — the blue BrainBit Infotech logo — with your other apps.

Sign in as a teacher

The first screen has two choices at the top, Teacher and Admin. Leave it on Teacher, type your Email and Password and tap Sign in.

The app keeps you signed in. You will not be asked again unless you sign out or do not open the app for about three months.

New here? Make an account

Tap New teacher? Create an account under the sign-in box. Fill in Full name, Email, Mobile number, Institute / School / Company, City, a Password (at least 8 characters) and Confirm password.

You go back to sign-in; sign in with the same email and password. We email you a link at your first sign-in. Open it and press Confirm my email within 48 hours. After that, the app shows Verify your email until you do.

The Home screen

Fill in the test details

Tap New test on Home (or the + button on the Tests tab) and fill in:

• Title — what students will see, e.g. Fractions – Unit test.
• Subject and Topic — start typing and pick a suggestion, or type your own. Any subject, any topic.
• Class (optional) and Difficulty (Mixed, Easy, Medium or Hard).
• Questions per student, Minutes allowed, and the Pass %.

Choose where the questions come from

Create the test

Tap Create test. A summary tells you how many questions went in, and lists any the app could not read. Tap OK and you land on the test’s own screen.

If a red message appears instead, it says exactly what is missing — a title, a topic, or a reply it could not read.

Switch the test to Open

Send the link to the class

Tap the share icon at the top right of the test’s screen and choose WhatsApp (or any app) — the title and link go together. Or tap the copy icon next to the link and paste it wherever you like.

Students open the link, type their name, class and mobile number, and start. The Code under the link is what they type if they open the test page by hand.

Need more questions? Close it when done

Add questions tops up the pool from the library or from another AI paste — the more questions in the pool, the more each student’s paper differs from their neighbour’s.

When the class has finished, set Settings to Closed and tap Save settings. Delete test at the bottom removes it completely.

Students and Questions

Make a new deck

Tap New deck. Fill in Subject, Chapter, Topic, Class (optional) and Language (English, Hindi or Hinglish), slide the number of Slides, and add Notes for the AI if you like — e.g. use cricket examples.

Then the same round trip as for tests: Copy AI prompt, open your AI app, paste, copy its whole reply, come back and Paste.

Check the reply, then save

Tap Check the reply. The app shows the deck’s title and every slide so you can look before saving. Slides with mistakes are listed, and are left out when you save. When it looks right, tap Save deck.

If it says This reply cannot be saved, read the problems underneath and ask the AI again — usually it stopped halfway or added chat around the reply.

Edit, publish, present

• Edit — tap a slide to change its text, with a live preview. Long-press and drag a slide to move it. A few slide types can be edited only on the website; the app tells you when that is so.
• Publish — makes the deck’s link work for students. Then the share icon sends the link. Unpublish stops the link working.
• Present — full screen, sideways. Swipe or tap the edges to move between slides. Connect the phone to a TV or projector with screen-cast and teach from it.
• The ⋮ menu has Make a test from the quiz slides (a ready draft test from the deck’s quiz questions), Share in the slide library, Open in browser and Delete deck.

Working without internet

Everything you have opened once stays on the phone. With no signal the app shows a dark strip — Offline - showing saved data — and you can still read your tests, see results you have already loaded, and present decks you have opened before. Handy in a classroom with no Wi-Fi.

Making and changing things needs internet: those buttons read Needs internet until you are back online.

The Account tab

• Signed-in devices — every phone signed in to your account. Lost a phone? Tap Sign out next to it from your new one.
• Sign out — signs this phone out.
• Delete my account — removes your name, email, mobile and sign-ins after you type your password. Your tests stay available to students under “Former teacher”.

Getting a new version

Come back to this page and tap Download for Android again — the button always gives the current version, and the line under it shows its number. Open the file and tap Update (or Install).

Do not uninstall first. Installing over the old app keeps you signed in. Your tests and decks are safe either way: they live on the website, not on the phone.