Start from nothing
Invent your own
Describe a small tool in three short answers, and this page turns them into a request for Gemini, ChatGPT, or Claude. In a few minutes you'll have something you can click. You're the inventor: the idea and the judgment are yours, and the AI writes the code.
Step 1
Describe your invention
Your request so far:
No idea yet? Take one from the jar.
Press one and its three answers fill the builder, so you can change them before you copy.
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Step 2
Build the first version
Paste your request into your AI chat and send. A first version usually shows up in under a minute, as a tool with buttons in a panel beside the chat. Only code and no tool? You skipped Canvas or Preview: where each switch is, and what you'll see.
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Step 3
Make it yours
Ask for one change at a time. "Make the buttons bigger." "Add a sound when I win." "Use our school colors."
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Step 4
Break it, fix it
Something will go sideways. Tell the AI exactly what you see: "When I press Start, nothing happens."
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Step 5
Peek under the hood
Ask the AI to show you how it works.
Promptwords: paste them into the same chat
Explain three lines of this code to me like I've never coded before. Pick the three most interesting ones.
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Step 6
Back to you
Is it what you set out to make? Who would you show it to? Keep it, and show one person.
Where do I paste it, and what you'll see
Stuck? Three moves.
- Describe it. Tell the AI exactly what you see and what you expected instead.
- Rewind. "Go back to the version before that one."
- Ask for help. On your own, ask the AI itself, in plain words:
Promptwords: paste them into your AI chat
I'm a teacher who has never coded. Here is what I see: … What should I do?
Still stuck after two tries? Start a new chat and paste your request again; that counts.
In a live session: press Ask for help in your Meet breakout room, and a host will join you.
Inventing a page for your Google Site, or a script for your Drive? The prompts and steps on level 2, on your site, and level 3, behind the scenes, work for your own idea too: a different document, a different folder, a different job.
Keep it, and show one person
Got something working, even halfway? Half-built counts. Copy a link to it so you can open it Monday, take a picture of it, and show one person: paste both into an email or a Doc, or turn your screen toward a colleague.
Copy a link to your work
Gemini
At the top right of the canvas, choose Share & export, then Share, then Copy link.
Claude
Click the tool Claude made (the panel beside the chat; Claude calls it an artifact) and choose Publish, then copy the link. On a school or work plan, choose Share, then Share & copy link.
ChatGPT
At the top of the chat, choose Share, then Create link or Copy link. The link opens the conversation, code and all.
Microsoft Copilot
On your page, choose Share at the top right, then Copy link.
A link from a school account may open only for people in your district. A picture shows your work to everyone either way. Each tool's own help on sharing.
Take a picture of it
Windows
Press Windows + Shift + S and drag a box around your work. It's copied, ready to paste.
Mac
Press Command + Control + Shift + 4 and drag a box around your work. It's copied, ready to paste.
Chromebook
Press Ctrl + Shift + Show windows (the key with a rectangle and two lines, above the 6), drag a box around your work, and choose Capture. It's copied, ready to paste.
In a live session: put it on the gallery wall
The gallery wall is a Google Slides deck your host links in the chat, where everyone can click a picture to open what someone made.
- Open the gallery wall from your host's link in the chat. Click a slide with room on it; when one fills up, use the next.
- Paste: Ctrl + V, or Command + V on a Mac.
- Drag a corner to make it postcard-size, and move it to an open spot.
- With the picture still selected, press Ctrl + K (Command + K on a Mac), paste your link, and choose Apply.
Now anyone can click your picture to open what you made. If the wall opens view-only on your school account, your district may block outside files: paste your picture in the Meet chat instead.
Keep to made-up data
A wall shared with a whole group is open to everyone in it, and so is a published link. Nothing about real students goes into a tool you share.