iDoceo - Teacher gradebook

I am a pre-service teacher preparing to student teach after the holidays. I had found a few other apps that I was interested in using to keep myself organized, but they all left me wanting a bit more out of them. Then I found this app. I bought it on the spot once I saw just how many features it has (devs - you could probably charge more for this and no one would fault you). The number of things you can do with this app are staggering; when I found the rubric feature I seriously just stared at my iPad with my mouth hanging open for a few seconds. Seriously, if you are a teacher who’s attached at the hip to your tablet, this app is well-worth the money - and I say that after simply looking at all that is available after I installed it. There is definitely going to be a learning curve figuring out how to do everything, but that’s better than not being able to do everything that you want to do. My only ‘gripe’ would be that this NEEDS a desktop companion for ease-of-access and the ability to go between a school-issued laptop and a personal iPad. That said, the devs’ commitment to privacy and data security is greatly appreciated. Tl;dr: This app is robust, comprehensive, and poised to becoming something bigger than it currently is, I think.

I have been use this app for years now and it drastically changed my music classes and the ways I can document progress. The fact that I can set up 30+ classes, place them on a custom schedule automatically in the calendar and document individual student progress is worth pure gold to me! Seating charts, accommodations, hints for specific students, behavior, progress by categories is so much easier this way! Very music teacher I show, goes out purchases an iPad and the app! Their comments are similar, "Where has this been all may life?" Which was also my response when someone showed it to me for the first time. If you teach any subject, this is a need, not simply a want. If you teach multiple classes each day or teach elementary art, music, PE, etc., it is more than a necessity! It is a time saver in its efficient use of time. I was simply able to airdrop all of our classes into other teachers' iPads and we didn't even have to duplicate efforts!

This is the iPad app I have been waiting for! I am a middle school band director and this is the first gradebook app I have found that meets ALL my needs. The seating chart options are wonderful (love the option to add your own background). There are literally thousands of customization options for column and grade types in the grade book view, along with lots of color choices, icons, and student fields. I can email parents directly from the app, video tape my band for future reference, have a student record their playing test, and import/export just about any data I want. When I had a question for the developer, he literally got back to me with a valuable and detailed response within 30 minutes! Love it and looking forward to the next update! Some ideas: - Give us the option to add our own icons to the list (ie: so I can have little pictures of flutes/clarinets/etc... as an additional choice) - add some sort of functionality for an iPhone app (not easy, I know, but maybe at least an app that can connect to the iPad version for attendance on the go . . . . Don't know if that would be possible, just an idea) - as a connected option, have a way to sync with another teacher (two band directors could share the same classes and both update the sections they work with, and seeing each-other's changes at the same time. Again, not sure how this would work, but just a thought) I am recommending this to all the teachers in my district. Thanks again for a great app!

I'm a college professor and this app meets my needs and then some. I use the "diary" aspect to jot down concepts and key ideas I want to explore in each class and the grade book and attendance for quick daily writings and attendance. I love how I can integrate images and handouts by placing them in either the pin board or summary, which allows me to smoothly go from one screen to another as I lecture or facilitate workshops and group work. I put each class's syllabus in their respective classes, which, in turn, lets me go back to the syllabus for quick check ins. I can also see student attendance at a glance and, if necessary, email individual students or the entire class directly from the app. And, if necessary, I can email students handouts that are attached to a day's lesson plan! Frankly, I honestly feel I'm just scratching the surface of what this app can do. iDoceo is helping me go paperless even more--which, with my being an English professor, can be almost a miraculous feat.

I searched for so many different teacher planner apps....none of them can even hold a candle to this one. I read all the reviews, visited the website, but kept wondering (being the fragile teacher that I am), should I really spend the money? Then, one of the reviews I read said "just buy it!" So, I broke down and bought it. School hasn't even started yet, and I keep getting on and watching the videos and getting excited to try everything out. It's unbelievable! In fact, it's so amazing, I even bought the 3-pack classroom badge maker, random picker (even though there's a random picker in iDoceo) and Teammates that I plan to incorporate, too. I teach foreign language and plan to use the two wheels on the random picker to practice conjugation...one wheel for pronouns and one wheel for verbs to conjugate. So, just buy it -- you'll be amazed!!! Thank you so much to the creators! :-) I LOVE IT!!!!!!!