Students turn a history project, a biography or group research into a dated, sourced timeline with photos and places, showing the work behind the answer.
Set a class to research a period and you get back thirty piles of fragments: a date, a photo, a quote nobody can place. Boromlia gives students one place to put those fragments in order, attach a source to each, and explain why they belong.
What you get
Students build a timeline of a period, a biography or a project, with a date, a place and a source on every event.
A source filter that shows you, and them, every claim with nothing behind it.
Descriptions in the student’s own words, next to the evidence they came from.
Nothing to install: it runs in the browser on a school laptop, a tablet or a phone.
Assignments it fits
History timeline project: research a period, collect the events, people, places and sources it turns on, and put them in order.
Biography: rebuild one life against the history around it.
Project-based learning: turn weeks of group reading into one record with photos, places and quotations.
On Advanced, students can join one timeline as collaborators. When two of them bring the same event with different dates, the disagreement sits in the record with names attached, and settling it is the lesson.
Students use AI anyway. A timeline makes their thinking visible.
AI is free, on every phone, and answers in seconds, so banning it rarely works. What it cannot do for a student is decide which facts belong, find the document behind each date, and explain the order in their own words. That is the work a timeline asks for, and the work you want to grade.
AI suggests a date. The student names the source in the event’s source field.
AI gives two different dates on two different days. On one axis, the student has to pick one and say why.
The source filter shows every unsourced line in one click, before the timeline reaches you.
Views worth leaving open
Cards: A period at a glance, which is where a class starts before it argues about the order.
Spans: What ran while what else was running, the question behind most history questions.
Map: Every located event as a waypoint on one route, for the where of a period.
Questions
Do students need accounts?
Not to read one. A shared timeline opens from a link in a browser. An account is only needed to build or edit a timeline, or to be added to one as a collaborator.
Can I put a class timeline in our LMS or blog?
Yes, on Advanced. The embed is a single iframe tag with no script, which most LMS pages and blogs accept, and it updates as events are added. Where a page takes only links, share the read-only link instead.
Is there a school or classroom plan?
Not as a published price. School and team pricing is quoted: email support@boromlia.com and say what you need.