For schools, colleges and universities
Everything you hand out, assembled on your own laptop
Teaching generates an unusual amount of document work and almost no budget to do it with. A worksheet pulled from four sources, a scanned set of scripts that has to become one file per pupil, a pack too large for the school mail system — and school devices where installing software is not an option.
The constraint that shapes this is not privacy first, it is permission. School and college laptops are managed devices: you cannot install anything, you often cannot sign up for anything, and the budget for a tool that does one job twice a term is zero. So the work gets done on whatever free website loads, on a device the institution controls, with pupils’ marked work as the input.
Which is where privacy arrives after all. A scanned set of scripts is children’s names attached to their performance, and the school has obligations about where that goes that no individual teacher can sign away at eleven at night before a deadline.
These run in the browser that is already installed, need no account and have no quota, so there is nothing to ask permission for and nothing to expense. And because the file is never sent, the pupils’ work stays on the machine it was scanned on — provable by unplugging the network and watching the tools carry on working.
What to use
- Assemble a worksheet or packCombine pages from several sources into the single document you actually hand out.
- Split scanned scriptsTurns one long scan of a marked set into a file per pupil, so feedback can go to the right person and only that person.
- Take just the pages you needPull four pages out of a textbook chapter instead of distributing the whole file.
- Photos of work into one documentTwenty photographs of pupils’ work become one document that can be filed or shown.
- Fit the school mail limitScanned packs are large and most school systems cap attachments well below what a scanner produces.
- Run it across the whole class folderThirty files is the same job as one, only longer. Point at the folder.
What this will not do
Worth reading before you put a client’s file through it.
- — It has nothing to say about copyright. Being able to extract pages from a book is not permission to distribute them.
- — Splitting a scan divides pages. It does not read names, so it cannot guarantee page seven belongs to the pupil on page six — check before sending feedback out.
- — There is no marking, grading or plagiarism function, and no integration with any virtual learning environment.
- — Nothing is saved between sessions. Close the tab and the working file is gone, so download what you produce.
Check it rather than trust it
Turn off your wifi and use any tool here. If the work still happens, the file is not going anywhere — that is a proof you can perform in three seconds, and it beats anything we could write. The longer version, with the protocol and the result, is on the proof page.
Everything here is free, MIT-licensed and has no account, quota or watermark. It is maintained by one person, unpaid. If it saves you an afternoon, you can support the work.