Kira just made the activity type menu obsolete with Action Tiles

What would you teach if you weren't limited to what your platform could build?

If you can think it, Kira can create it.

Today we’re introducing Kira’s latest interactive lesson feature, Action Tiles!

Maria teaches 8th grade Spanish, and last Tuesday she wanted her students to practice conjugating verbs in the past tense, not with a worksheet, not with multiple choice, but with something that actually felt like a game, something engaging that her students would actually be excited to do. She typed into Kira: "Create a drag-and-drop activity where students match Spanish verbs to their correct past tense conjugations. Make it feel competitive with a score counter." Thirty seconds later, her students had it in front of them.

Experience limitless creation

Every other tool gives you the same five activity types and expects you to make your lesson fit. Multiple choice. Fill in the blank. Short answer. It works, until you have a specific idea for your students and none of the options quite match what you're picturing.

Action Tiles starts from the other direction. You describe the activity you want and Kira builds it, right inside the lesson, ready for students. The activity serves the lesson, not the other way around.What it looks like in practice

The use cases span every subject and grade level. A computer science teacher can build a vocab matching activity for binary versus hexadecimal terms. A 4th grade math teacher can generate a drag-and-drop activity where students sort fractions from least to greatest. A history teacher can create an interactive timeline where students place key events in chronological order. A biology teacher can spin up a cell diagram labeling activity mid-class, based on exactly where students are getting stuck in that moment.

None of these required a pre-built template and none of them required anything other than a description.

How it works

Step 1: Describe it Tell Kira what you need in your own words.

Step 2: Kira builds it Kira generates a fully interactive activity and renders it inside your lesson in real time, built for the concept you're teaching, not a generic version that kind of fits.

Step 3: Refine if needed If it's not right, follow up in the on screen Ask Kira chat. After it’s adjusted, students see the new version immediately.

Below are a few examples from educators who have created their own:

Mantha Camacho

Special Education Teacher & Instructional Coach, Texas
A drag-and-drop sorting activity for 11th and 12th grade US Government

"I wanted students to practice the separation of powers in the three branches of US government — three columns, executive, legislative, judicial — and drag and drop the various responsibilities and powers into the right columns."

Andrea Tolley

Middle School Computer Science Teacher, Tennessee
A screenshot-matching activity for Microsoft Office vocabulary

"Students often struggle to connect terms to real software. I'd create an Action Tile where they match terms like 'ribbon' and 'toolbar' to labeled screenshots from Word, PowerPoint, and Excel — with immediate feedback."

Greg Bagby

Instructional Technology Coach, Tennessee
A themed Science review game built in school colors, for the Buccaneers

"The beauty of this is it's inside of the lesson already — they don't have to jump in and out. And then you can personalize it even further with your brand on it, so to speak. We're the Buccaneers. I needed the colors blue and yellow. It did everything with the right colors and the right theme."

During a live community workshop, educators brainstormed and built together in real time. Someone asked whether Action Tiles could turn poetry month into a Mad Libs experience, so we tried it. Someone wondered about color by numbers. So we built that too.

What will you build?

Try it today

Action Tiles is live in Kira today.

If you're already using Kira, log in to your account and start building directly with Action Tiles in lesson.

If you're a teacher who hasn't tried Kira yet, you can create a free account and explore the platform at your own pace.

If you're a district leader interested in bringing Kira to your schools, get in touch with our team and we'll walk you through what it looks like at scale.