Getting Started in 5 Minutes
No technical background needed. If you can use email, you can use Claw-ED.
1. Install (1 minute)
Open your terminal (Mac: Terminal app, Windows: PowerShell) and run:
2. First Run (1 minute)
Ed will walk you through setup:
- Pick a model: We recommend Ollama Pro ($20/month) — best quality for the price. Free options available too.
- Enter your API key: One time only. Stored securely on your machine.
- Tell Ed about you: Name, school, subjects, grade levels.
3. Feed Ed Your Materials (2 minutes)
Point Ed at your lesson files — PPTX, DOCX, PDF, anything:
clawed ingest ~/Documents/MyLessons/
Ed reads through everything and learns:
- How you structure lessons (Do Now style, activity types, exit ticket format)
- Your vocabulary choices and scaffolding patterns
- Your images, maps, cartoons, and diagrams (extracted and catalogued)
- Your favorite primary sources and assessment formats
This runs once. After that, Ed knows your teaching voice.
4. Generate Your First Lesson (1 minute)
clawed lesson "Causes of the French Revolution" -g 10
In about 2 minutes, Ed produces:
- Teacher lesson plan (DOCX) with answer key and teacher scripts
- Student handout (DOCX) with fill-in-the-blank and scaffolding
- Slideshow (PPTX) with your own images from your files
- IEP/504 accommodations (DOCX)
- ELL scaffolding (DOCX)
- Gifted extensions (DOCX)
- Review game (HTML) — open in any browser
- Learning journey (HTML) — interactive student walkthrough
- Research report (Markdown) — topic deep-dive grounded in your materials
9 files. One command. In your voice.
5. Try Telegram (Optional)
Run Ed as a Telegram bot so you can generate lessons from your phone:
Message @YourBotName on Telegram: “Make me a lesson on Reconstruction for 8th grade” — files arrive in chat.
See BOT_SETUP.md for setup details.
What’s Next?
- Generate a full unit:
clawed unit "World War II" -g 10 -w 3
- Search your materials: Ask Ed “What do I have on the Civil War?”
- Create an assessment:
clawed assess "Reconstruction" --type crq
- Build a game: Ask Ed “Make a Jeopardy game on the Constitution”
- See your curriculum: Ask Ed “Show me my curriculum map”
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