hwgteach

Here we go, teach.

Less busywork. More teaching.

Free classroom tools that run on your own device. No account to make, no district sign-off to chase, and no server holding your students' data.

One tool so far. It is the one being used every day.

Planbook

Grades, attendance, and the outreach that follows — the parts of the day that pile up around the lesson.

Attendance in a few taps
Built for a rotation that changes on you — assemblies, delays, drills. Mark what met, drop what didn't, and see at a glance which is which.
Grades that stay honest
Late and missing are marked by you, never guessed from a due date. A grade never changes because the clock rolled over.
The students who need you
Falling grades, missing work, absences and behaviour, surfaced before the quarter closes instead of after.
And the ones worth praising
Improvement, turnarounds and strong streaks, ranked by change rather than by rank — so the message home is not always bad news.
The message home, already drafted
Opens in your own mail app, sends from your own address, and lands in your own sent folder. Nothing sends on your behalf.
It works with the wifi down
Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app, offline, in a room where the network is the thing that fails.

Where your students' data goes

Nowhere. That is the architecture, not a setting you have to go and find.

There is no server to send it to
Everything stays in your browser's own storage, on your own device. There is no database behind this, because there is nothing behind this.
There is nothing to sign into
No account, no password, no roster upload, no email address collected. Open the page and start.
Moving devices is opt-in, and narrow
You can connect Google Drive to carry your file between a laptop and an iPad. It only ever touches the one file it made. Skip it and nothing is missing.
It is new, and you should know that before you start. Planbook runs its first real term this fall, and it is being built as that term goes. Expect rough edges. Keep the backup file it gives you — it takes 1 tap, and it is how you get a term of grades back if something goes wrong.

Free. Nothing to buy, no trial, no upgrade.

Who makes this

Built by a classroom teacher, for their own 5 classes. Each of these tools exists because something in the school day was taking longer than the thing it was meant to support — and the fix had to survive a bad-wifi, three-minutes-before-the-bell Tuesday. More tools are in the works; when one is ready to be used by someone other than its author, it will appear here.