For teachers, teacher candidates and educators
Mark Smarter brings the jobs that eat into a teacher’s evening into one place: marking student work against your rubric, building answer keys, timing classroom routines and finding lesson ideas. The tools do the legwork. Every mark stays your call.
Every tool in Mark Smarter started as a real task from a real classroom. Here is what is inside.
For Mark Smarter members
Tell Mark Smarter the grade, the subject and what you’re covering this week. In about a minute you have a lesson plan, a student worksheet, or both, ready to change, print or save.
Mark Smarter is created by Jamie Dalgetty and built by education professionals. Each tool begins with a question teachers ask every week: how do I get through this pile, keep this lesson on time, or find a plan for tomorrow?
Mark Smarter is a set of web-based tools for teachers, teacher candidates and other educators. It helps with the jobs that fill a teaching week: marking student work against a rubric, building answer keys, timing classroom routines and planning lessons.
Classroom teachers from Kindergarten through college, supply and occasional teachers, teacher candidates in education programs, tutors and homeschooling parents. If you teach, plan or mark, it is built for you.
Yes, with an account. Pick the grade, subject and topic, a theme such as Halloween or Earth Day, and how you like to teach, and Mark Smarter writes a complete lesson plan, a student worksheet, or both. Worksheets can be one to three pages with an answer key on its own page, and math picture questions like fraction bars and number lines are drawn for you. Change anything, then save, print or download it as a Word or PDF file. Please read every lesson and answer key before you use it.
The classroom timers, the printable worksheet makers and Lesson Plan Ideas are free and need no account. The full teacher toolkit is opening gradually: request an account and we will email you when it is ready. A few marking and writing tools connect to outside services through your own account with them, so any usage charges come from those providers.
No. It suggests a mark and feedback against your answer key or rubric so the first pass goes faster. You review it, change it or ignore it. The final mark is always the teacher's decision.
Yes. The tools support Canadian and American spelling, and Lesson Plan Ideas includes lesson plans in French as well as English.
Fill in the short request form with your name, email and role. Every request is reviewed by a person, and you will get an email as soon as your account is approved.
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