PrepPanel: Classroom Manager

An all-in-one classroom manager with smart student picker, group generator, seating chart, timer, pacing tracker, and more PrepPanel: Your All-In-One Classroom Engagement Toolkit NEW FEATURE: Smart Seating Chart Maker! NEW FEATURE: Mastery Tracking! NEW FEATURE: Pacing Tracker! Tired of juggling popsicle sticks, timer, group makers and seating chart builders in separate tabs, and clunky spreadsheets to manage classroom participation and progress? Struggling to implement flexible student pacing, or personalized roadmaps so students can move through content at the pace that's right for them? PrepPanel is a simple, powerful side panel designed to bring predictability, equity, and stress-free engagement to your classroom. PrepPanel integrates all your essential daily tools into one convenient place, helping you save time and reduce student anxiety so you can focus on what matters most: teaching. Key Features: Smart Student Lineup: Our intelligent lineup picker randomly selects students while giving them a gentle "heads-up" by showing who is "Up Next" and "On Deck." This simple feature dramatically reduces the anxiety of being called on unexpectedly and encourages students to be prepared to participate. Advanced Group Generator: Instantly create pairs or groups of any size. Go beyond simple randomization with Group Rules, allowing you to enforce "Always with" or "Never with" pairings. And diversify groups using our "Grouping Factor". It's perfect for differentiating instruction, managing classroom dynamics, and ensuring collaborative work is productive. Seating Chart Maker: Easy to use drag and drop interface let's you create table groups and leverage your group generator rules to populate your seating chart instantly in a way that balances students and follows your custom rules. Private Participation Tracker & Reports: Discreetly log the quality of student contributions ("Met," "Exceeded," "Struggled" or your custom names!) on your private teacher dashboard. This data is saved for each class, and with the click of a button, you can view reports or export all participation data to a CSV file for easy record-keeping. Student Pacing System: Setup guardrails and keep track of student progress through student self paced units. Includes an optional public pacing board that students can update in real time. Connect teacher/student checks for mastery directly back to the mastery tracking system all on one conveniently organized pacing tracker. Built-in Timer & Discussion Starters: Keep your activities on track with an always-accessible timer, complete with customizable presets. Need to spark a quick discussion? Use the built-in generator to get a random, proven discussion format (like Think-Pair-Share, Socratic Seminars, etc.) to get students talking. Why You Should Install PrepPanel: Reduce Student Anxiety: The "Up Next" system gives students time to prepare their thoughts, leading to more confident and thoughtful participation. Ensure Equity: The randomized queue ensures every student gets a chance to participate over time, taking the bias out of calling on students. Modern Pedagogy and Personalized Learning: The proof is in the data, personalized learning works, but figuring out how to keep track of all of your students who are all in different places is a challenge you didn't have time to tackle, until now. PrepPanel's customizable pacing tracker allows you to implement this high impact strategy immediately. Save Time & Mental Energy: No more switching between apps or browser tabs. Your roster, timer, group maker, and participation log, mastery and pacing trackers are all in one place. Make Data-Informed Decisions: The private participation tracker gives you valuable insight into student engagement trends over time, helping you tailor your instruction. Pacing and mastery and tied together, and you can even make groups and seating charts based on your student's current levels of mastery on your learning objectives. Install PrepPanel today and make equitable, low-stress, and dynamic participation the new standard in your classroom!