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Map activities let you explore locations related to what you’re studying. Open a pin anywhere on the map to read your teacher’s notes and see images. Whether your class is studying ancient civilisations, ecosystems, or the settings of a novel, the map gives every topic a real place in the world.

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How to access a map

Maps are published directly to your classroom feed — you don’t need a separate link or login. Head to your classroom dashboard and look for the Map activity in your feed. Click or tap it to open.

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Exploring a map

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Open the map activity from your classroom

Click the Map activity card in your classroom feed. The map will load centered on the area your teacher has set as the starting view.
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Pan around the map

Click and drag (or swipe on a touch screen) to move around the map in any direction. You can explore the full geography your teacher has set up.
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Zoom in and out

Use your scroll wheel to zoom in and out on a desktop. On a touch device, use a pinch gesture to zoom. Zoom right in for street-level detail or pull back to see the bigger picture.
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Click a pin to open its card

You’ll see colored pins placed at key locations. Click or tap any pin to open its content card.
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Read the pin card

Each card contains a title, a description, and often one or more images added by your teacher. Take your time reading — this is where the learning lives.
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Close the card and keep exploring

When you’re done with a pin, close the card and move on to discover more. You can open as many pins as you like, in any order.
You don’t need to visit pins in a specific order — map activities are designed for free exploration, so go wherever looks interesting first.
Pins all look the same on the map, so there’s no way to tell from the outside which ones hold the most detail — it’s worth opening each one.

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Adding your own pins

Some maps let you add your own pins, not just read your teacher’s. If the map has a Student Mode button, you can contribute to it:
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Click Student Mode

Look for the Student Mode button on the map. If you’re signed in and enrolled in the class, you can start adding pins right away — no password needed.
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Enter the password if you're asked

If your teacher set the map up for students outside the class, you’ll be asked for a map password first. Your teacher will give it to you.
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Add and fill in your pin

Click or tap the map to drop a pin, then add a title, a description, and any images — the same kind of card you read on your teacher’s pins.
Not every map allows this. If there’s no Student Mode button, the map is read-only — just explore and read the pins your teacher placed.

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Keyboard and accessibility navigation

You don’t have to use a mouse to explore the map. Keyboard navigation works on standard geographic maps, and every map offers a list-view alternative:

Keyboard navigation

On standard maps, press Tab to move between pins, Enter to open a pin card, and Escape to close it. With the map focused, the arrow keys pan it and + / − zoom it; the arrow buttons in the bottom-left corner do the same by mouse or touch. If your teacher built the map on a custom image background, the pins can’t be reached this way — use list view instead.

List view

Can’t navigate the map easily? Switch to list view to browse all pins as a simple, scrollable list — the same content, just in a different format.
If you use assistive technology or find the map view difficult to navigate, the list-view alternative gives you access to all the same information your teacher has provided.