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Using social media mockups in a lesson, with three exercises that work and what happens to a student's data.
On this page
- Free for classroom use, with no account and no student sign-ups.
- Nothing a student makes is published, stored against their name, or seen by anyone else.
- Downloads are sharp enough for a projector, a handout or a slide.
What you can do with it
Zeoob is a media-literacy, online-safety and copywriting sandbox — built for classrooms and marketing training, to simulate the high-stakes feeds where public blunders, scams and viral posts actually happen.
Zeoob makes a realistic post, story or chat in about a minute, on any platform your lesson needs. That makes two kinds of teaching easier: showing students what something looks like, and showing them how easily it can be faked.
Three lessons that work
Spot the difference
Make two versions of the same post — one real-looking, one with the numbers, the handle or the verified badge changed. Ask the class which is which, and how they decided. Most will go to the badge first and the engagement numbers last, which is usually backwards.
Build the rumour
Give each group the same plain fact and ask them to make a post that technically contains it but misleads. Then swap and have each group explain the trick the other used. It teaches framing faster than a definition does.
Draft before you post
For media or marketing students: brief a campaign, have them draft the posts as mockups, and critique them at full size before anything goes near a real account.
Why the editor stays silent
Each tool ships with a few pre-built starter templates — “Gaming squad” or “Server announcement” on the Discord tool, for instance — enough scaffolding to kickstart a lesson and quick-start a student, without doing the thinking for them. Beyond that, the editor stays deliberately neutral: no error flags, no warnings about clunky text, no phishing alerts, no automated checklist.
That is the point, not a gap. In the real world, X, Discord and Instagram do not warn a marketing intern that their copy is weak, and they do not alert a teenager that a link looks like a scam. The real learning happens when the canvas is neutral and the student has to notice for themselves.
- It forces active media literacy. A student has to look at the template and decide for themselves: does this timestamp make sense? Is this role colour realistic? A tool that flagged the errors would only train students to chase a green checkmark instead of training their own eyes.
- It mirrors real pressure. A marketing intern needs the habit of checking character counts, cropping and link formatting by hand. If they draft a messy, unoptimised post here, the exported image looks exactly that messy — a mistake made safely in the sandbox, where they can see it and fix it themselves.
- It rewards critical thinking over compliance. Automated tools teach people to follow prompts. A fully manual canvas pushes students to think about human behaviour, community norms and the small visual tells that give a fake away.
Privacy in a classroom
No student needs an account, and nothing is published anywhere. Editing happens in the browser: what a student types or uploads is not sent to Zeoob while they work. When they press Generate, the finished image is sent to us to be watermarked and signed, and we keep a record of the file, the tool, the date, and the IP address and type of device it came from — but no names. A share link stores a second copy, which is deleted when the link expires. There are no profiles, no feeds and nothing for a class to follow. The detail is in the privacy policy.
If your school blocks third-party scripts, the tools still work: the ad script and the analytics tag load only after the page is usable, and nothing on a tool page depends on either. The one thing that will not work, once we switch the anti-bot check on, is our contact form and the image verification tool, which will use Google reCAPTCHA — email support@zeoob.com instead and you will get the same answer.
Using the files
Download at 2×, 3× or 4× for a projector or a printed handout. Chat downloads carry a faint “Not an original screenshot” watermark, which is useful in a classroom: it survives the screenshot a student takes of your slide.
Anything missing?
If there is a platform, a layout or a classroom need Zeoob does not cover, write to support@zeoob.com. Teaching use shapes most of what gets built next.