Your Classroom Maps, Now Reaching Further Meet the AI Map Conversion Tool

If you've ever watched a teacher sketch a Circle Map on chart paper with a classroom full of kindergartners, you already know: hand-drawn Maps aren't going away. For many educators — especially those working with younger students — a marker and a whiteboard will always feel more natural than a screen.

That's exactly the gap our new AI Map Conversion Tool is built to close.

A bridge, not a replacement

The AI Map Conversion Tool takes hand-drawn or image-based Maps and turns them into exercise-ready digital Maps inside TMLC — no rebuilding from scratch required. Snap a photo of a Map from your classroom wall, or start from an image, and the tool does the heavy lifting to make it usable, editable, and ready to assign.

It works two ways:

• Convert your own hand-drawn Maps. Upload a photo of a Map your class built together and turn it into a digital Map Exercise in minutes.
• Convert Map Gallery images. Found a Map in the Gallery that's close but not quite right? Convert it straight into an editable Exercise, then customize it to fit your lesson.

Built for how leaders and teachers actually work

Early feedback pointed to two clear use cases. School and district leaders who work closely with teachers on hand-drawn Maps now have a fast way to digitize that work and scale it across a school or district. And in the classroom, teachers can turn the hand-drawn Maps students already made — on paper, on whiteboards, in notebooks — into polished digital Exercises without retyping a thing.

A natural on-ramp to the Map Gallery

This tool also strengthens the connection between two of TMLC's most-used spaces. Browse the Map Gallery for inspiration, clone a Map that fits your lesson, or bring your own hand-drawn work in and convert it — all part of the same flow. It's a simple way to get more teachers exploring the Gallery, and more Gallery Maps turned into real classroom Exercises.

Whether you're a district leader digitizing a stack of hand-drawn Maps from a teacher workshop, or a classroom teacher turning today's whiteboard Map into tomorrow's Exercise, the AI Map Conversion Tool meets you where you already are.

See how it works!