Miro is the world’s most popular visual collaboration platform, with over 100 million users worldwide. It’s ideal for teams brainstorming, planning, and building together. With its new AI and prototyping features even the term collaboration is no longer adequate: Miro is a work and creativity accelerator. But Miro was never designed for one thing many educators need: structured and PRIVATE 1:1 interaction between teacher and student.
The Gap
Teachers who use Miro for their teaching face a recurring problem. They build rich, detailed boards full of teaching content, and this is ideal for sharing with the entire group of students. Ditto group activities, where many students can work on a single board. But what happens if you want to give an exam with Miro – or a quiz – or a homework assignment? This would involve creating a single Miro board, cloning it X times (one for each student) – then somehow sharing this private copy of this board with each and every student. It’s possible in Miro, but the needed typing and clicking alone would violate the warranty of your keyboard – and the animal protection society would contact you about mouse abuse.
The MiroLearn Application: What MiroLearn Does
MiroLearnsolves this problem. It connects directly to Miro and gives teachers capabilities that Miro alone doesn’t offer.
Board management for teaching. Clone any Miro board and assign copies to individual students. Track which boards have been distributed and to whom. Set all boards to “hidden” (before the exam begins), then change the status to “edit” (the exam or homework assignment starts), then change the status back to hidden (exam over!). After the teacher has graded or reviewed each assignment (very easy in the MiroLearn interface), the boards can be individually set to “view only” so the students can see your comments or feedback.
What MiroLearn Also Does
MiroLearn adds some additional features teachers may find useful.
Content extraction across formats. Parse and extract text content from Miro boards, PowerPoint slides, and PDFs. The result is clean, structured content ready for further use.
Prompt generation for AI-assisted course design. Select from a library of prompt templates, and MiroPilot combines your parsed content with a well-crafted prompt. Choose “Learning Objectives” and get a Bloom’s Taxonomy prompt. Choose “Quiz Questions” and get a multiple-choice generation prompt. Choose “Session Plan” and get a lesson outline prompt. Copy the prompt into your preferred LLM and get usable results in seconds.
No AI Inside, AI-Ready by Design
There is intense discussion in the teaching community about the use of LLMs – and rightly so – in this case, mainly focusing on data protection. Therefore, MiroPilot itself uses no AI. It does the hard work of parsing, structuring, and preparing content so that any LLM can produce high-quality, pedagogically sound outputs. The teacher stays in control of which AI they use and how they use it. This functionality has been designed to work with the boards and slides teachers create.
Built by a Teacher, for Teachers
I use Miro in my teaching – but only for slides and group activities. Because my computer science students must do diagramming (use cases, classes, deployment) and my data engineering students must work with data (ERDs) I would love to use Miro for quizzes and exams – there is no other LMS tool comes close – and also Miro is likely the tool they will be using in the real world. But sadly, without an app like MiroPilot, this just isn’t possible.
So MiroPilot was built at Bern University of Applied Sciences out of my real teaching needs: managing courses with dozens of students, each needing their own workspace, and turning existing course materials into structured learning resources without starting from scratch.
Interesting in trying it?
MiroPilot is just entering the beta-phase, which means there is a high probability it will not make your computer explode or turn your harddrive soft. It is a web-app that can be used in any browser, and behind-the-scenes it uses the so-called Miro REST API. If you are a teacher (including corporate trainers) and you use Miro and have a valid Miro license (the free license won’t work; you must have at least an educational license or a business license), and if you are interested in trying MiroPilot and GIVING FEEDBACK about your experience, please contact Ken via LinkedIn. He can’t promise an account for everyone, but for serious teachers seriously interested in giving serious feedback, he will try his best, seriously!