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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 on the other end.

Two tools. Both free, both new, both built in a classroom.

The tools

Two, doing different jobs. Neither needs the other, and neither needs an account.

Planbook

Grades, attendance, and the outreach that follows.

◓ first term

Track grades and attendance, see the students who need you in both directions, and draft the message home — without sending your roster to another service.

BBStyler

Class pages worth reading, in Blackbaud-safe HTML.

○ v0.1, this month

Build bulletins, topics, and assignments out of reusable content blocks, then copy HTML built to survive Blackbaud's editor.

Planbook handles what piles up around the lesson

Grades, attendance, and the outreach that follows, kept close enough to act on.

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.

BBStyler makes class pages easier to read

Compose once, preview the destination, and paste clean inline-styled HTML into Blackbaud.

Built for Blackbaud's editor
Choose bulletin, topic, or assignment and see what that surface keeps before you publish.
Structured, reusable content
Start from a template and arrange headings, notices, resources, tasks, quotes, and other classroom-ready blocks.
Checks before you copy
Catch contrast, heading-order, and destination-compatibility problems while the post is still easy to fix.

What both tools have in common

Your work 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. Neither tool has a database behind it, because neither has anything behind it.
There is nothing to sign into
No account, no password, no roster upload, no email address collected. Open the page and start.
Moving your work is your choice
Planbook can connect to one file in Google Drive. BBStyler exports a backup you control. Neither requires an account with us.

Not sure which one?

They do not overlap. Planbook is the record-keeping around your lessons — grades, attendance, the message home. BBStyler is what your students actually see — the class page, the assignment, the bulletin. Most teachers want one or the other, and taking both is no more setup than taking one, because neither has any setup.

Planbook is new, and you should know that before you start. It 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.
BBStyler is newer still — version 0.1 went out this month. Its drafts live in this browser and nowhere else, so export the backup it offers before you clear site data or move to another machine.

Both tools are free. Nothing to buy, no trial, no upgrade.

Who makes this

Built by a classroom teacher, for their own 5 classes. These tools exist 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.