Classroom Management Apps and Websites

Seating chart system makes managing classroom behavior simple

Bottom Line: An easy-to-use, engaging tool for managing student behavior and participation, especially if you focus on the positive.

Exemplar bridge between home and school also aids learning

Bottom Line: When used thoughtfully, ClassDojo can help adults support students' growth through goal-setting, reflection, and celebration.

Flexible, feature-filled LMS facilitates focus on whole child

Bottom Line: Being able to access lots of customizable data, group students beyond classes, and communicate easily with families gives teachers a clear picture of each student that they can share.

Full-featured school-to-home communication platform delivers with style

Bottom Line: This multifunctional platform connects families, teachers, and students with a ton of features.

Measure classroom sound levels with simple, fun themes

Bottom Line: This is a fun tool that offers a silly but possibly effective solution to managing noise levels.

Assign, assist, and assess with real-time, interactive classroom

Bottom Line: It's a great option for teachers who want to go paperless, provide specific feedback, and encourage collaboration among students in virtual or 1-to-1 classrooms.

Real-time participation tracker shows who's talking

Bottom Line: If used delicately, this is a potentially eye-opening tool that can help teachers modify discussions.

Multimedia digital portfolios connect students, teachers, and parents

Bottom Line: It's designed with student learning in mind, and teachers can encourage students to submit quality content and engage in reflective feedback.

Flexible interactive presentation tool engages kids at school and home

Bottom Line: It's great for creating customized and differentiated lessons, but it might not be accessible for every student.

Engage and assess students with media, videos, and interactive slides

Bottom Line: The teacher- or student-paced learning can improve 1-to-1 environments and the learning activities are top notch.

Free LMS feels rich in offering data-driven differentiated instruction

Bottom Line: This teacher-created site solves more problems than it causes, but it will take some up-front professional development to take full advantage.

Versatile digital portfolio appeals to teachers, students, and parents

Bottom Line: A powerful multimedia learning and communication tool that demonstrates student progress over time.

Manage and conceptualize time with great visuals, a few bugs

Bottom Line: A decent option for visual timer needs, being sufficiently customizable, but there are still a few bugs and room for improvement.

Exceptional, simple communication, collaboration, and document sharing

Bottom Line: Though it doesn't have it all, it's an incredible tool for managing and organizing learning.

Minimize classroom distractions with virtual hand-raising tool

Bottom Line: An easy way to gauge understanding, adjust instruction, and provide student support in real time.

Keep tabs on student workflow with handy Google extension

Bottom Line: Classwork Zoom can be a great tool for any teacher who frequently assigns Google documents.

Messaging tool helps classrooms forge and foster meaningful dialogue

Bottom Line: This tool opens up avenues for conversation and relationship building between teachers and students.

Motivate students and monitor behavior with clever gamified platform

Bottom Line: When used thoughtfully, this classroom gamification can encourage positive behavior and develop essential collaboration skills.

Robust lesson creation and delivery tool aids assessment

Bottom Line: With some creativity, this interactive platform can support instruction and assessment.

Comprehensive discussion platform develops critical-thinking skills

Bottom Line: A great tool in any subject or topic for teachers looking to make discussion a central part of their classroom.

Robust learning management tool comes with challenges

Bottom Line: With patience and creativity, it can evolve into a rich learning management system.

Flexible desktop, mobile assignment tool works best with pro features

Bottom Line: A flexible way to collect student assignments and offer written and verbal feedback, especially with the premium features.

Feedback tool with great rubrics might work best for older students

Bottom Line: With appropriate teacher support, this could be a powerful way to help teach your students about giving and receiving critical feedback.

Great how-to content, flexible features boost digital badge tool

Bottom Line: A useful tool for issuing digital badges.

Use a game-inspired classroom structure to offer some autonomy and flexibility

Bottom Line: GradeCraft has the potential to revolutionize your classroom by inspiring students to take control of their own learning.

Cool, customizable tool turns notebooks into workspaces

Bottom Line: With some scaffolding, this could be a great way to capture, organize, and share info without juggling a class site, notebook, to-do list, and more.

Social hub offers a novel but tricky spin on classroom communication

Bottom Line: With some creativity and moderation, this student-loved messaging alternative to Google and Microsoft could be a key extension of your classroom.

Organizational tool makes managing complex schedules a cinch

Bottom Line: If they can make it a habit, students will love staying on top of assignments and test dates with this handy, pocket-sized "personal assistant."