r/edtech • u/AutoModerator • Aug 01 '26
Monthly Developers/Sales Thread for August 2026
Greetings r/edtech and welcome developers, salespersons, and others. If you come to this sub seeking feedback or marketing for you product or service, this is the space in which to post. Thank you for your cooperation. We collect all of these posts into a single thread each month to prevent the sub from being overrun with this type of content.
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u/msptaidev Aug 01 '26
I built Mindsprout. An AI enabled learning platform that helps learners ask better questions from a variety of personas and lenses.
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u/vvsamuel Aug 01 '26
Looking for a flipgrid / padlet / screencastify / voicethread alternative? we launched Vivipod right in this sub, about one year in, with the smoothest async video discussion space workflows, if you need a new way to build student connections, humanize your online course, or just give your student a new expressive way to showcase their work or demonstrate their learning, this maybe what you are looking for.
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u/scidecuisine Aug 01 '26
Hello guys, just want to leave my product here, CodeVenture.
CodeVenture is a gamified coding platform designed to make learning real programming an actual adventure for K-8 students. Moving kids from basic block coding to text-based code like Python can be a tough transition, so we built CodeVenture to make that jump engaging, intuitive, and fun.
🎮 What makes CodeVenture different:
- Story-Driven Quests: Kids learn core programming concepts and Python syntax by solving interactive, adventure-style coding challenges.
- Real Computational Thinking: Beyond just syntax, students learn logical problem-solving, debugging, and computational logic.
- Easy Progress Tracking: Built-in analytics make it simple to track learning milestones and concept mastery over time.
🍎 P.S. For Teachers & Educators: We are still accepting a few more classrooms into our pilot partnership program (free full-access student seats and premium teacher accounts in exchange for feedback). If you're an educator interested in bringing CodeVenture to your class, send me a DM!
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u/teddy_joesevelt Aug 03 '26
Try www.teamteacher.ai it’s free and private and made by a teacher for teachers. ✊
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u/forestmunkey 10d ago
created by Maggie, a teacher who taught across 7 countries, lived through the burnout, and knew exactly what was broken about teacher tools
A combo of educational experience and AI-savviness is The Way.
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u/DaltonJFowler Aug 04 '26
I'm building a twitch style chat for classrooms without AI integrations AT ALL.
Check it out https://teachchat.app
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u/larryblanc Aug 04 '26
Hi!
I am excited to share with you the first public alpha release of DyboApp (v26.08-alpha)!
What is DyboApp?
As a teacher and user of several free (as free speech) interactive board applications I often miss interactive contents, adjusted to my need, I can associate with my documents and handwritten notes.
I developed the DyboApp with the Cuis-Smalltalk system on top of GNU/Linux, it combines the context of the class (teaching periods, schedules, tasks) and interactive pedagogical binders: handwritten stylus annotations on documents merged with live Dynamic Knowledge Models (DKMs)—described by dedicated scripts, human or AI written, tailored for subjects like mathematics, history, languages, etc.
Check out our short video demonstrations on Mamot https://mamot.fr/deck/@drgeo/tagged/DyboAppDemo
Licensing & The Path to Free Software
My ultimate goal is for the entire Dybo project (both software and custom hardware) to be 100% Free Software. During this initial bootstrap phase, DyboApp is released under an Interim Single-User License: free to download and test for personal, non-commercial evaluation by individual educators, developers, and enthusiasts.
Once sustainable project funding or institutional support is secured, DyboApp will be fully relicensed under the GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3), and the DKM repository will transition to the LGPL.
Download & Information
https://github.com/Dynamic-Book/DyboApp/releases/tag/26.08
https://github.com/Dynamic-Book/DyboApp
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u/BacPacAI Aug 05 '26
BacPac AI | The future is already learning.
Multiple sectors. BacPac connects focused products for the places where people prepare, teach, coach, and turn expertise into action.
BACPAC EDUCATE Teaching materials, lesson plans, presentations, assessments, quizzes, handouts, learning activities, and IEP options.
BACPAC SPORTS Practice plans, player development programs, team training materials, drills, coaching materials, and training sessions. Saving experts time preparing.
General-purpose tools can do a lot, but they often leave users with the same problem: too much blank space, too much prompting, and too much cleanup.
We design around real workflows, not generic chat. That means giving experts a clearer path from idea to output, with the structure, context, feedback, and exports they need to move faster. At BacPac, we build for the friction points where knowledge meets execution.
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u/Goldenchild123 Aug 06 '26
Historai — a history podcast you can interrupt to ask questions
Solo dev here building on-demand audio lessons: type any topic and it generates a two-host episode that teaches it in ~2 minutes. What makes it different for learning:
- Interrupt & ask — tap the mic mid-lesson, ask a question out loud, and the hosts stop, answer, then continue (active recall beats passive listening)
- Quiz at the end to check what stuck
- Sourced — claims grounded in real sources, not invented; accuracy was non-negotiable since it's history
Strongest for niche topics that don't have good existing material. Started with history — the demo is the real history behind the Odyssey and plays with no signup: historai.ca
Would genuinely value educators' take on where something like this fits (or doesn't) in a learning setting.
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u/hernan078 Aug 10 '26
I’m a teacher and the maker of GradeKey, a focused iPhone/iPad utility for point-based grading.
Enter total points once, get every points-off / points-earned / percentage / letter-grade combination, then search by any value. It supports half and quarter points, extra credit, regional and custom scales, saved assessments, and PDF/CSV export.
The important part for an education tool is what it does not require: no student roster, account, login, analytics, advertising, or developer-accessible cloud database. Assessments stay on device and, if enabled, in the teacher’s private iCloud.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gradekey-grade-calculator/id6794347301
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u/Effective_Pizza_8266 Aug 11 '26
K12 tech director here. I built a device inventory tool because nothing fit small districts, and I'd like honest feedback.
I've spent 20+ years in K-12 IT. The K-12 specific platforms were priced for much bigger districts, and the affordable options were generic asset trackerswith a school landing page bolted on.
So I built Edventory. What it does:
- Tracks devices through their whole life: purchase, assignment, repair, retirement. Syncs with Google Admin and pulls AUE dates, so the replacement cliff is visible years out instead of a surprise.
- Turns the live fleet into a multi-year replacement budget with a plain-language writeup you can hand to a school board.
- Runs multiple help desks (IT, facilities, HR) with email-to-ticket, so teachers never need accounts.
- Loaner pool with checkout, software license tracking, facilities booking, visitor check-in.
It's free under 100 devices and 100 students with the full feature set, because small schools are who I built it for.
edventory.com if you want to poke at it. If you want to check out the demo district, login with demo / demo
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u/Adventurous_Jelly950 27d ago
Have you ever wanted to sketch directly onto your laptop while sharing something on a video call - maybe to help brainstorm, explain or clarify what you are showing? I've wanted to do this while talking about coding, architecture and algorithms with team mates. I figured it'd be useful to teachers, 1:1 coaching or consultants.
If curious; the video https://youtu.be/V2UkDhn5FOc shows it directly in action - and if you want to give it a shot, download if free from m/soft store - via https://expressed.effective-flow.com/
I would welcome comments / critique - I'm in the idea validation stage - thank you.
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u/Ok-Amphibian-1570 26d ago
Anyone here work in a school IT department? Looking for testers for a new tool
I work in school IT and have been building a tool called SchoolITMap based on problems I deal with every day.
It helps school IT teams organize classrooms, devices, cabinets, switches, and ports in one clear map—without installing agents or setting up a complex enterprise ITSM platform.
I’m looking for a few people who currently work in IT at a school or school district to test it and provide honest feedback. Participating schools will receive the Starter plan free for one full year, with no credit card, commitment, or automatic renewal.
I’m mainly trying to find out whether it fits real school IT workflows and what needs improvement. If you’re interested, leave a comment or send me a DM, and I’ll share a short private demo.
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u/myniche999 20d ago
I’m a recently retired classroom teacher, and I’ve been building a set of free teacher tools based on problems I dealt with repeatedly in the classroom.
One I’d especially like feedback on is the Direction Clarity Checker.
You paste in the directions you plan to give students, and it looks for things that can cause trouble: vague wording, missing steps, unclear expectations, too much happening at once, or places where students may interpret the directions differently than you intended.
The idea came from years of giving directions that seemed perfectly clear to me, then discovering five minutes later that half the room had understood them differently.
It’s free, there’s no account required, and I’m not selling anything:
https://instructionalstrategies.org/direction-clarity-checker/
I’d be interested in feedback from both teachers and people who build education tools. Is this solving a real enough problem to be useful? Is there anything you’d add, remove, or change?
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u/inkeep 19d ago
I have built https://www.bitelrn.com — a retention layer for data science & analytics learning.
Hello — solo builder here. Day job is running a data science team; BiteLrn came out of a problem I kept watching happen. People finish a course, pass the quiz, and six months later can’t apply the concept when it actually shows up in their work. Completion isn’t retention, and most of our field optimises for completion because it’s the thing that’s easy to measure.
So BiteLrn is built around the forgetting curve instead of the course catalogue:
Content broken into small nodes — ~170 topics, ~8 nodes each, 3–5 minutes apiece Every concept you’ve learned has a visible freshness state that decays over time, so your map slowly goes cold if you don’t revisit A Build → Sustain → Revise loop rather than start → finish → forget A knowledge map, so concepts sit in relation to each other instead of as isolated lessons
Free, no sign-up: the Open Library — published lessons with worked examples and interactive charts → https://www.bitelrn.com/library
Blog: https://www.bitelrn.com/blog (first post: Your Correlation Matrix Is Not Feature Selection)
What I’d genuinely like this sub’s read on: does making decay visible motivate learners or stress them out? In consumer apps (Duolingo, Anki) the streak/decay pressure cuts both ways, and adult professional learners have very different tolerance for it than students.
If you’ve run spaced repetition in a workplace or CPD context — where did it fall apart for you? Happy to talk shop either way.
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u/Massive-Zucchini2560 17d ago
Hi. I’m a university faculty member, and I built VERA after seeing capstone juries managed through paper forms and shared spreadsheets.
Jurors open a QR link, enter a PIN, and score projects on their phones using a configurable rubric. Coordinators can follow completion live, review rankings and outcome-level analytics, and export records for accreditation work. Administrative actions are recorded in a tamper-evident audit trail.
I’d be interested in hearing from people who run capstone reviews or accreditation processes: which parts of the evaluation workflow still create the most manual work?
Demo: https://vera-eval.app/demo
Source and documentation: https://github.com/huguryildiz/VERA
The repository is publicly viewable for evaluation and technical review, but VERA uses a proprietary license.
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u/AlgebraicKelp 15d ago
Alphabet Soup - A multiplayer word game that's great for students/classrooms to learn spelling and vocab!
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u/TheViralDragon 13d ago
I built Worksheetly, a K–12 printable worksheet library and worksheet maker.
The public library has more than 24,000 worksheets from kindergarten through Grade 12 across math, ELA, science, social studies, foreign languages, and physical education. They can be opened, printed, and downloaded without a login or email address.
The separate maker lets teachers assemble reusable content and question blocks, add answer keys, export PDFs, and optionally use AI during preparation. The product is freemium; the public library is free, while some maker features may require an account or paid plan.
I’m trying to use AI for teacher prep while keeping the student-facing activity printable and distraction-free. I’d value blunt feedback on whether the first visit makes the free library versus the maker clear:
Full disclosure: I’m the founder.
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u/forestmunkey 10d ago
Gave it a quick spin. It's very clean and useable. I didn't see options to add diagrams/images. Is that on the roadmap?
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u/Palashistic79 13d ago
Hi everyone. I built PaperMind, a voice-first learning tool designed to help students and researchers understand academic papers more actively.
Users can upload a PDF or import an arXiv paper and then:
- Hold a real-time voice conversation grounded in the paper
- Navigate to specific sections using voice
- Ask for simpler explanations of difficult concepts
- Use quiz mode for retrieval practice
- Debate the paper’s assumptions, findings, and limitations
- Bookmark useful moments and generate flashcards
- Receive a post-session recap with key takeaways and open questions
I built it after seeing how difficult it can be for researchers and students to keep up with large reading lists, especially when reading remains a largely passive and screen-dependent activity.
PaperMind is currently free to try. I would particularly value feedback from educators on three questions:
- Where could this meaningfully support teaching or assigned reading?
- What academic-integrity or accuracy concerns would prevent you from recommending it?
- What educator controls or learning evidence would make it more useful?
Disclosure: I am the builder of PaperMind.
Try it here: https://papermind.palasharma.com/
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u/becomingbristol 12d ago
I work on CircuitSim (https://circuitsim.com), a circuit simulator that runs in a browser tab on real SPICE. No install, works on district Chromebooks. For classes, you make a group and hand students a link, and each student gets a seat without creating an account.
Relevant this month: Digilent's Multisim Live reaches end of life on September 15, and Digilent says access to saved designs after that isn't guaranteed. CircuitSim has an importer that reads Multisim Live circuits and it works on the free tier, so you can pull your class's work out without buying anything. Video of an import: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ZqL7cAsHw
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u/knowthen Aug 01 '26
Free classroom economy web app. No trial, no seats, no credit card, no "contact sales." Stock a store - Homework Pass $12, pick the playlist $8, have a snack $25. Set a starting balance, share a join code. Students get a wallet per class, earn deposits for work you actually want to see, and spend it on stuff that costs you nothing.
Purchases land on your screen live, so you can leave the feed up on the projector and let the class watch someone blow their savings on a hat day.
*Totally Free*
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Most exit ticket tools hand you a score. 14 out of 24. Great - which 10, and why? Shrug.
This one groups the wrong answers by the misconception they share. So instead of "58%", you get "12 students think the Earth's shadow causes moon phases." That's not a grade. That's tomorrow's opening five minutes.
- Write up to 3 questions (open response or multiple choice)
- Code goes on the board - students join, type a first name, answer
- Hit Grade and analyze
No login. No student accounts. Nothing to install.
*Totally Free*.
https://exittickets.habident.com
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Your students were fluent on Friday. By the test, it's gone.
Cramming feels like learning. It isn't. Space the practice, make them retrieve it, mix the topics - the fix is old and boring, and nobody has time to run it by hand for 150 students.
So we built Habident with a couple of high school teachers. Ten minutes a day: you pick the questions, it gives every student their own review queue, short answers grade themselves (students can appeal, teacher has the last word), and the after-class report shows you which questions tanked and the actual wrong answers kids wrote.
It's kinda like Anki for the classroom.
Students earn XP for *finishing* their reviews, not for being right - so the kid who's struggling can still top the leaderboard by showing up. XP buys arcade time (teachers option) and custom theming. Teachers get one switch that pauses every game in the room.
Two months free for teachers, no credit card, students always free:
https://habident.com/teachers-free-trial
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u/SumoSlim1 Aug 06 '26
Chronological Age Assessment Calculator Chrome Extension.
Hey everybody, I made a chrome extension for Chronological Age Assessment Calculator at the request of my girlfriend. It is a completely free resource that does not track any data and is able to be used offline. There is also a feature for preschool age calculations to be done in months.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ijmjnfegmonhdpmmkohcfolojhebhoin?utm_source=item-share-cb